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ASTRO: 2012_LZ1 The Movie by
Rick Johnson[_2_]
Yesterday this newly discovered asteroid made its closest approach. I
had rain all day but it cleared leaving horrid seeing. By 2 a.m. it had
cleared up to...
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951 |
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1,166 |
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ASTRO: Arp 297 Reprocessed by
Rick Johnson[_2_]
I've been on a reprocessing binge the last few days. Nothing but high
winds and rain -- power was out several hours each of the last two days
due to trees...
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1,318 |
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ASTRO: Hickson 68 reprocessed by
Rick Johnson[_2_]
I took this data in 2008. Recently a Canadian amateur took a very good
wide field image of this area and noticed an odd "curtain" (his term)
plume to the...
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1,663 |
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Reprocessed Arp 102 for Guilherme Couto by
WA0CKY
Guilherme,
It now shows much more of the plume than the NOAO image: http://www.noao.edu/image_gallery/html/im0003.html
Color is better as well.
Rick
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1,408 |
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ASTRO: M 107 by
Rick Johnson[_2_]
M107/NGC 6171 is a globular cluster one of dozens of globular star
clusters in Ophiuchus. While discovered Mechain who contributed many to
the Messier list...
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1,477 |
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ASTRO: NGC 4618/4625 by
Stefan Lilge
I used two nights in March to image the galaxy pair NGC 4618/4625 in Canes
Venatici.
Seeing was very good, even at full scale of 0,57"/pixel stars looked nice...
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1,322 |
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ASTRO:M106 by
Stefan Lilge
I imaged M106 in three nights in March, the second night had low
transparency and the images from the third night were unusable...
The picture was...
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1,314 |
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ASTRO: Arp 94 by
Rick Johnson[_2_]
Arp 94 is listed under Arp's category for spiral galaxies with
elliptical galaxies on a arm. It is located less than a degree east of
Gamma Leonis so is very...
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1,575 |
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0 |
1,124 |
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1,127 |
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ASTRO: Hickson 67 held a major surprise by
Rick Johnson[_2_]
Hickson scoured the POSS plates and cataloged small compact groups of
galaxies. One I found very interesting is #67 in the list. Interesting
because...
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1,528 |
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ASTRO: UGC 4352 A possible triple galaxy by
Rick Johnson[_2_]
UGC 4352 is either a 2 or 3 galaxy system. NED only lists 2. What the
UGC is seeing I don't know. It isn't UGC 4349 to the north as the UGC
says of it:...
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1,673 |
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ASTRO: NGC 3433 and a lot more by
Rick Johnson[_2_]
NGC 3443 Is a spiral galaxy about 140 million light-years away in Leo 2
degrees southeast of M96. At first glance or in short exposures it
appears as a...
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1,454 |
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ASTRO: NGC 3447 by
Rick Johnson[_2_]
NGC 3447 is a pair of interacting galaxies in Leo about 65 to 66 million
light-years away. NED classes the larger western galaxy as SAB(s)m pec
and the...
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1,405 |
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ASTRO: NGC 5514 Another train wreck by
Rick Johnson[_2_]
NGC 5514 is a colliding pair of galaxies in Bootes about 350 million
light-years away. NED classes NED01 as Sa and NED02 as Sb. The NGC
project only...
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1,580 |
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ASTRO NGC 4710 and IC 3806 by
Rick Johnson[_2_]
NGC 4710 is located about 60-66 million light-years from us in Coma
Berenices. It is classed S0-a by the NGC project and SA(r)0+? by NED.
The (r) refers to...
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1,269 |
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ASTRO: Let's try this again. M42 by
George[_6_]
The following image is a composite of images taken at intervals of 10
seconds, 30 seconds, 1 minute, and 2 minutes for a total exposure time of 50
minutes to...
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1,178 |
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ASTRO: The Series by
Edward Erbeck
The first image is ~30 past first contact and the last ~ 1minute
past max for my location as it set behind the Dragoon Mountains.
Crazy Ed
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1,240 |
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1,122 |