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2 Attachment(s) Spiral NGC 4527 by WA0CKY
While nearly all my images are oriented north up. This galaxy looked "upside down" to me so I'm breaking my rule and displaying this field south at the...
July 5th 16 09:01 AM
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3 Attachment(s) UGC 6446 A Crab-Like Messed Up Spiral by WA0CKY
UGC 6446 is a low surface brightness, face on spiral in Ursa Major just under the bowl of the Big Dipper. Redshift puts it about 38 million light-years...
July 3rd 16 07:00 AM
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3 Attachment(s) Ngc 5100/5106 by WA0CKY
On January 23, 1784 William Herschel found a galaxy. He recorded the RA but not the declination except in general terms. He never went back to it. Tempel...
July 1st 16 06:10 AM
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3 Attachment(s) WBL 543 and a lot more by WA0CKY
The three galaxies in the center are the WBL Galaxy Group. NGC 5851, 5852 and PGC 53961 at about 310 million light-years in southeastern Bootes. Several...
June 29th 16 09:13 AM
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2 Attachment(s) NGC5534/Markarian 1379 A spiral with a difference by WA0CKY
NGC 5534/Markarian 1379 is a very strange galaxy in western Virgo, almost into Libra. That may explain why a Virgo galaxy is in an area where virtually no...
June 25th 16 06:32 AM
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2 Attachment(s) VII Zw 279 A Ring Galaxy by WA0CKY
I Zw 279 or how to write several paragraphs with nothing to write about. But I like to type so here goes, well, nothing much. As I've mentioned before, ring...
June 21st 16 06:50 AM
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2 Attachment(s) Ring Galaxy UGC 5936 and very flat FGC 1139 by WA0CKY
UGC 5936 is a ring galaxy about 340 million light-years distant in northeastern Leo Minor just a half degree from much closer Arp 206. I see the upper corner...
June 17th 16 07:18 PM
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4 Attachment(s) Announcing the discovery of a dwarf galaxy by WA0CKY
It's not often an amateur gets to announce a new galaxy. But it appears I have discovered a previously unrecognized dwarf irregular galaxy probably on the...
June 17th 16 07:06 PM
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1 Attachment(s) ASTRO: Abell 39 (PN in Hercules) by Stefan Lilge
I wanted to do one narrowband-target in the clear nights in early May and Abell 39 came to my mind. So far I only had a b/w version. I binned all frames 2x2...
June 14th 16 10:52 PM
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1 Attachment(s) ASTRO: NGC 5112 by Stefan Lilge
NGC 5112 (a rather strange galaxy in CVn) was another target for those nice clear nights at the beginning of May. I gathered data in five nights which was a...
June 14th 16 10:46 PM
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2 Attachment(s) IC 620 and a Neat Ring Galaxy by WA0CKY
IC 620 is one of a pair of interacting galaxies about 470,000 light-years distant. The Sc galaxy is located in Leo about 6 degrees east of Regulus. The pair...
June 14th 16 10:37 PM
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3 Attachment(s) IC 480 An Edge On Flat Galaxy by WA0CKY
I put IC 480/2MFGC 6287 on my to-do list when I saw an amateur image of it that showed it as very blue. An edge on galaxy may be blue at the ansae but usually...
June 14th 16 10:36 PM
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2 Attachment(s) Planetary Nebula NGC 2022 by WA0CKY
NGC 2022 is a multi-shell planetary nebula just east of Orion's head. The Hubble Space Telescope page says it is 5000 light-years distant. I found no other...
June 14th 16 10:33 PM
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3 Attachment(s) NGC 3982 and a lot more by WA0CKY
Thanks to having now over 1500 narrow angle fields in my image library, all covering only about one fifth of a square degree of sky, I'm now starting to find,...
June 13th 16 07:49 AM
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3 Attachment(s) Flat Galaxy FGC 1187 (NGC 3501) and NGC 3507 by WA0CKY
NGC 3501 attracted my attention as it is a neat flat_galaxy being #1187 in the Flat_Galaxy Catalog. It is classified as Scd by NED and Seligman but the NGC...
June 13th 16 07:33 AM
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3 Attachment(s) IC 527 and a lot more strange stuff by WA0CKY
My original object of interest was IC 527 due to an entry in the UGC stating "Smooth faint disk, no spiral pattern." Yet the POSS image showed a very obvious...
June 11th 16 09:15 AM
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3 Attachment(s) Spiral IC 467 by WA0CKY
When I imaged NGC 2336 in 2013 I noted some references said it was a non interacting pair with IC 467. That caused me to put that galaxy on the to-do list. ...
June 7th 16 09:06 PM
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2 Attachment(s) IC 2375, 2377, 2379 and MCG -02-22-011 by WA0CKY
I thought I was imaging a nice three galaxy group consisting of IC 2375 2377 and 2379. I saw a fourth similarly bright galaxy at the very bottom but paid it...
June 5th 16 07:44 AM
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3 Attachment(s) Spirals NGC 4639 and 4654 by WA0CKY
NGC 4639 and NGC 4654 are a pair of spiral galaxies on the edge of the Virgo Cluster. They are located in northern Virgo. In fact the top 18% of the image is...
June 3rd 16 06:00 AM
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2 Attachment(s) IC 620 and a Neat Ring Galaxy 2nd Try by WA0CKY
I really messed up the processing of the ring galaxy by using way too much deconvolution that created non existent detail. I reined in the deconvolution to...
June 1st 16 08:46 PM
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