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1 Attachment(s) ASTRO: Two planetary nebulae in one image by Stefan Lilge
The two planetary nebulae PK329.0+01.9 (right, blue) and PK329.5+01.7 (left, red) in the constellation Norma fitted into the FOV of my Atik 383 at the 12"...
February 8th 12 11:50 PM
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3 Attachment(s) ASTRO: NGC 428 by Rick Johnson[_2_]
NGC 428 is one odd looking galaxy in Cetus. Redshift puts it 38 million light-years away. Unfortunately the error bar of redshift is at least this great...
February 8th 12 11:45 PM
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1 Attachment(s) ASTRO: M17 by Stefan Lilge
After damaging my Atik 383 camera in Namibia I imaged with my SXV-H9 plus 80mm ED refractor. As a last object in a night I usually did some "standard" stuff...
February 8th 12 09:51 AM
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2 Attachment(s) ASTRO: NGC 225 and vdB 4 by Rick Johnson[_2_]
vdB 4 is a reflection nebula associated with the very young open star cluster NGC 225. The nebula may be the remains of the cloud that formed the cluster. ...
February 7th 12 11:10 PM
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2 Attachment(s) ASTRO: NGC 2071 by Rick Johnson[_2_]
NGC 2071 is a reflection nebula just north of the far more famous M78 some 1300 to 1600 light-years away in Orion. The nebula houses many protoplanetary...
February 7th 12 10:15 PM
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3 Attachment(s) ASTRO: Arp 263 with SN 2012a by Rick Johnson[_2_]
SN2012a was discovered by amateur astronomers on January 7th. It was the first supernova of the year. It is a type II super nova meaning it is a single...
February 7th 12 08:40 AM
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2 Attachment(s) vdB4 and NGC 225 The Sailboat Cluster by WA0CKY
While I posted this to USENET some servers failed to pick it up as did SpaceBanter.com so am reposting it there. Sorry for the double post to some USENET...
February 6th 12 11:45 PM
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3 Attachment(s) ASTRO: NGC 864 by Rick Johnson[_2_]
I have no idea why I imaged this galaxy. I can't find it in my to-do list nor was it on my to process list until I found it doing some housekeeping of the...
February 6th 12 09:44 PM
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2 Attachment(s) ASTRO: UGC 2885 Largest Spiral in the Universe -- Maybe by Rick Johnson[_2_]
UGC 2885 is a huge spiral classed as SA(rs)c. That much is obvious. After that things get murky. First link at Google says it is the largest known spiral...
February 6th 12 09:34 PM
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4 Attachment(s) ASTRO: UGC 4332 in Cancer Cluster by Rick Johnson[_2_]
The Cancer Galaxy Cluster is far larger than my field of view. It is about 220 million light-years distant and in the constellation of Cancer of course. I...
February 6th 12 09:30 PM
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3 Attachment(s) ASTRO: NGC 974 et al by Rick Johnson[_2_]
This is an image of a group of galaxies, including 6 NGC galaxies (4 entries in the catalog) and others in the field. The group is located in Triangulum...
February 6th 12 09:28 PM
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2 Attachment(s) ASTRO: A galaxy of a different color -- Maffei 1 by Rick Johnson[_2_]
A galaxy of a different color -- Maffei 1 was originally cataloged as a nebula. It is SH2-191 in the Sharpless catalog of emission nebula for instance. It...
February 6th 12 09:23 PM
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3 Attachment(s) ASTRO: Arp 55 The Grasshopper by Rick Johnson[_2_]
Arp 55/UGC 04881 is a pair of interacting galaxies in Lynx about 540 million light-years distant. Arp put it in his category for spirals with small, high...
January 29th 12 10:20 AM
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3 Attachment(s) ASTRO: NGC 6229 The "other" Hercules globular cluster by Rick Johnson[_2_]
NGC 6229 is the "other" globular in Hercules. M13 and M92 get all the attention while poor NGC 6992 tends to be the wall flower. It isn't big and bright...
January 24th 12 09:31 AM
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2 Attachment(s) ASTRO: Berkeley 65 by Rick Johnson[_2_]
Berkeley 65 is an open cluster in Cassiopeia about 7400 light-years distant. It is reddened about 1.1 magnitudes according to the WEBDA database. It is...
January 16th 12 08:15 AM
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1 Attachment(s) ASTRO: Abell 35 by Stefan Lilge
Abell 35 is the first post from my "emergency schedule" after I damaged my Atik 383 camera in Namibia. I had to image with my SXV-H9 camera (good idea to take...
January 12th 12 10:47 AM
by Rick Johnson[_2_] Go to last post
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1 Attachment(s) ASTRO: NGC 6421 (milky way in Scorpius) by Stefan Lilge
NGC 6421 is an open cluster in Scorpius that is supposed to be in the central part of this image. I can't really distinguish it from all those background...
January 10th 12 01:25 PM
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2 Attachment(s) ASTRO: NGC 1985/CED 57 and vdB 45 by Rick Johnson[_2_]
NGC 1985/Ced 57 was originally classed as a planetary nebula by William Herschel when he discovered it. Many afterwards also considered it a planetary so it...
January 9th 12 09:15 AM
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2 Attachment(s) ASTRO: NGC 6939 A "dirty" open cluster by Rick Johnson[_2_]
NGC 6939 is a rather well known open cluster in Cepheus near the more famous NGC 6946 galaxy. In small scopes where only the brighter stars are seen they...
January 8th 12 11:43 PM
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2 Attachment(s) VV 697 One Arp missed by Rick Johnson[_2_]
VV 697 is a triple galaxy system (quad?) in the northeast corner of the Great Square of Pegasus. It lies about 750 million light-years beyond the Great...
January 8th 12 11:39 PM
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