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2 Attachment(s) ASTRO: IC 59-63 by Rick Johnson[_2_]
Brown nebula Ced 4a IC 63 is Ced 4b Ghost at bottom IC 59 is LBN 620 Faint object above IC 63 may be 124.0-1.8 The complex is Sh2-185. Oddly the Sharpless...
January 5th 12 08:18 AM
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3 Attachment(s) ASTRO: 7044 Reprocessed by Rick Johnson[_2_]
My wife said my first processing was too "colorful". I turned down the saturation to what she liked. Now that I see it I think the first version was best...
January 3rd 12 08:59 PM
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3 Attachment(s) ASTRO: NGC 7044 by Rick Johnson[_2_]
NGC 7044 is an open cluster in Cygnus not far from the famous North American Nebula. It is in the Herschel 400 object list. I couldn't find any...
January 3rd 12 08:58 PM
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3 Attachment(s) ASTRO: Holoea for the New Year by Rick Johnson[_2_]
Holoea is a rare YSO in M36. Holoea is a Hawaiian term that means "flowing gas" (likely a volcanic term). This is descriptive of the gas flowing out from a...
January 3rd 12 08:57 PM
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Beautiful HD pictures of the universe i found best compilation on youtube by lewis201887
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=it2XhevaCJA&feature=plcp&context=C321f128UDOEgsToPDskLBNCYGVsvSRrx97sbgehIW http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=it2XhevaCJA&feature...
January 3rd 12 01:17 PM
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2 Attachment(s) ASTRO: NGC 659 by Rick Johnson[_2_]
NGC 659 is an open cluster in Cassiopeia. The WEBDA says it is about 6,300 light-years away though many internet sources say it about 10,000 to 11400...
December 30th 11 10:36 AM
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2 Attachment(s) ASTRO: NGC 654 vdB 4 and LDN 1332 by Rick Johnson[_2_]
NGC 654 is an open cluster about in Cassiopeia about 6650 light years distant per WEBDA though I've seen a lot of undocumented estimates of 7800 to 7900...
December 30th 11 09:18 AM
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1 Attachment(s) ASTRO: NGC 4603/4650/etc by Stefan Lilge
This is a galaxy field in Centaurus that I imaged last May in Namibia. NGC 4603 is the spiral to the lower right, NGC 4650 the barred spiral to the upper...
December 28th 11 10:11 PM
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3 Attachment(s) ASTRO: NGC 147 by Rick Johnson[_2_]
NGC 147 is a low surface brightness dwarf elliptical galaxy and well known satellite of M31. Oddly, I found a wide range of distance measurements to this...
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December 27th 11 11:28 PM
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2 Attachment(s) ASTRO: Open cluster IC 166 by Rick Johnson[_2_]
IC 166 is an open cluster in Cassiopeia. It is about 10,750 light years from us by one paper I found. The WEBDA puts it at 13,000 light-years. Pinning...
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December 27th 11 09:40 PM
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3 Attachment(s) ASTRO: Arp 131 by Rick Johnson[_2_]
Arp 131 belongs in Arp's category for elliptical and elliptical like galaxies close to and perturbing spirals. It is located on the western border of...
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December 23rd 11 08:19 AM
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1 Attachment(s) M1 Halpha by Stefan Lilge
Recently I wanted to image something with my Meade 10" ACF and the only target that came to my mind was M1. Taken from the middle of Berlin with a 10" Meade...
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December 21st 11 08:22 AM
by Rick Johnson[_2_] Go to last post
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1 Attachment(s) ASTRO: vdB 158 and PK 110-12.1 by Rick Johnson[_2_]
The large nebula extending well beyond my image is the reflection nebula LBN 111.05-12.46 aka DG 191 aka LBN 534. It is located in Cassiopeia. The B8V star...
December 19th 11 11:17 PM
by Stefan Lilge Go to last post
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3 Attachment(s) ASTRO: Abell 2666 and NGC 7768 by Rick Johnson[_2_]
NGC 7768 is the cD elliptical galaxy that anchors the Abell 2666 cluster. It has far fewer globular clusters than would be expected for a galaxy of its size...
December 17th 11 10:29 AM
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3 Attachment(s) ASTRO: Arp 309 by Rick Johnson[_2_]
Arp 309 is made up of two interacting galaxies, NGC 942 (lower) and NGC 943 (upper). The pair is located in Cetus about 200 million light-years distant. ...
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December 15th 11 08:30 AM
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3 Attachment(s) ASTRO: The Fath by Rick Johnson[_2_]
"The Fath is a small cluster of galaxies, near the center of the larger cluster Abell 262. Located in Andromeda, it is at a distance of about 210 million...
December 13th 11 09:16 AM
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3 Attachment(s) ASTRO: NGC 7606 Hole in the disk galaxy by Rick Johnson[_2_]
NGC 7606 is an example of a spiral galaxy with a hole in its spiral structure. Arp apparently didn't find these odd enough to include in his atlas. Besides...
December 12th 11 10:18 PM
by Stefan Lilge Go to last post
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2 Attachment(s) ASTRO: NGC 672 and IC 1727 by Rick Johnson[_2_]
NGC 672/UGC 1256 (north left of center) and IC 1727/UGC 1249 are an interesting, nearby, pair of galaxies in Triangulum. The red-shift distances are highly...
December 12th 11 10:04 PM
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3 Attachment(s) ASTRO: Arp 246 by Rick Johnson[_2_]
Arp 246/NGC 7837-8 is a pair of spiral galaxies Arp put in is very oddly named category for galaxies with the appearance of fission. I don't begin to see...
December 9th 11 06:40 AM
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4 Attachment(s) ASTRO: Arp 54 by Rick Johnson[_2_]
Arp 54 is a pair of galaxies, in Cetus 570 million light-years distant. Arp put in his category for spirals with small, high surface brightness,...
December 5th 11 05:49 AM
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