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ASTRO: Gum 85 aka Sh2-54 by
Rick Johnson[_2_]
The Tower of Babel that is the many catalog names for the same object
got me again. Seems I entered this object on my to-do list twice, once
under Gum 85...
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589 |
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ASTRO: NGC 3294 by
Stefan Lilge
NGC 3294 is a nice galaxy in Leo Minor. It has a decent surface brightness,
so it is a viable target for city skies.
I imaged it in two nights (5th and 6th of...
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ASTRO: vdB 148 by
Rick Johnson[_2_]
In his catalog van den Berg lists the surface brightness as very bright,
bright, moderate, faint and very faint. #148 is listed as faint. It is
listed as...
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ASTRO: SH2-88/LBN 139 by
Rick Johnson[_2_]
SH2-88/LBN 139 is a small nebula in Vulpecula about 2.4 kpc (7,800
light-years) distant. It contains at least three separate star forming
regions in its...
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ASTRO: vdB 111 by
Rick Johnson[_2_]
VdB 111 is a reflection nebula in Ophiuchus around the star HD 156697.
According to The Sky 6 the star is a rather white F0III-IV star. As the
variable...
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585 |
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ASTRO: Palomar 8 by
Rick Johnson[_2_]
Palomar 8 is a dim globular in Sagittarius almost 42,000 light years
distant and 18,000 light-years from the center of the galaxy. That
means we have to...
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632 |
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ASTRO: vdB 155/ LDN 524 by
Rick Johnson[_2_]
vdB 155/LBN 524 is a reflection nebula in Cepheus just southwest of the
far more famous Cave Nebula. Otto Struve,...
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610 |
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ASTRO: NGC 7086 by
Rick Johnson[_2_]
NGC 7086 is an open cluster in Cygnus. It was discovered by William
Herschel in 1788. WEBDA gives its age as about 140 million years and
puts it 4200...
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443 |
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1,398 |
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ASTRO: NGC 2857, 2856, 2854 by
Stefan Lilge
We had some clear nights at the beginning of March, at last a chance to
really plan an imaging run over more than one night.
In the first night (1st of March)...
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NGC 6058 by
Rick Johnson[_2_]
The planetary nebula NGC 6058 in Hercules was discovered by William
Herschel on March 18, 1787. At 13th magnitude it isn't an easy object
visually in my 10"...
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711 |
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1,014 |
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ASTRO: 6871 by
Rick Johnson[_2_]
NGC 6871 is a very large young cluster in Cygnus about 5000 light-years
distant. WEBDA gives its age as about 9 million years. I moved the
cluster to the...
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959 |
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ASTRO: LDN 810 and GN 19.43.3.01 by
Rick Johnson[_2_]
LDN 810 is a dark nebula in Vulpecula right on the border with Cygnus
which is in the upper right of my image. Note the obscuring dust cloud
continues north...
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993 |
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ASTRO: IC 4996 A small open cluster by
Rick Johnson[_2_]
IC 4996 is a small tight open cluster in Cygnus about 5600 light years
away. WEBDA puts its age at only 9 million years. So young a couple of
its stars...
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941 |
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ASTRO: SN2013am and 2/3rds of Arp 317 by
Rick Johnson[_2_]
M65 is part of Arp 317 which also includes NGC 3628 and M 66. I imaged
them individually several years ago. On March 21 a type II supernova
blew in Arp 65. ...
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665 |
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April 1st 13 08:48 AM
by WA0CKY
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ASTRO: M65 featuring SN 2013am (and M66 ;-) by
Stefan Lilge
M65 was not a planned image for this spring, but the newly discovered
supernova tempted me to go for it.
If George Normandin was still active in this group he...
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1,154 |
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ASTRO: NGC 4496 An interesting pair by
Rick Johnson[_2_]
Before reading the below look at the image full image -- not the
annotated one. Are the two galaxies interacting? Are they at the same
distance or is one...
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