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IC 1279/2MFGC 14240 A Flat Galaxy by
WA0CKY
IC 1279/2MFGC 14240 is an Sb spiral in Hercules about 280 to 290 million light-years distant. The first estimate is based on a mean Tully-Fisher measurement...
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PN Abell 39 by
WA0CKY
Planetary Nebula Abell 39 is a rather large bubble in western Hercules. It is one of the most symmetrical planetary bubbles known. I found several papers...
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LEDA 84446 With Another Voorwerpjes by
Stefan Lilge
Rick,
amazing image to capture such elusive objects. I would also go for the green
signal here as this is the "special feature" of these...
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Globular NGC 6517 by
WA0CKY
NGC 6517 is a globular-cluster in Ophiuchus about 35,000 light-years distant and about 14,000 light-years from the galaxy's core. Judging by the red star...
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November 16th 15 08:24 AM
by WA0CKY
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IC 1413 and Some Odd Galaxies by
WA0CKY
There are a few interesting galaxies around IC 1413 that caught my attention. I used IC 1413 as a reference as the other galaxies in the image are quite...
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November 14th 15 06:50 AM
by WA0CKY
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Open cluster NGC 6866 by
WA0CKY
NGC 6866 is a beautiful open cluster in Cygnus that doesn't get the attention it deserves. Not only is it a great open cluster of very blue stars they...
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November 12th 15 07:14 AM
by WA0CKY
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Open Cluster NGC 6704 by
WA0CKY
NGC 6704 is a rarely imaged open cluster in Scutum. This may be because it is only one degree north of the far glitzier M11. Also it is located on the...
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November 10th 15 09:09 PM
by WA0CKY
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DeHt4 by
WA0CKY
DeHt4 is a rather newly discovered planetary nebula in Aquila. As far as I can tell the only other amateur image of it was taken by Derek Santiago in narrow...
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November 8th 15 08:55 AM
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November 7th 15 09:33 PM
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Gyulbudaghian's Nebula by
WA0CKY
Gyulbudaghian's Nebula is a reflection nebula around PV Cephi which is in quite a large dust cloud. Like other such nebulae in dust around newly forming stars...
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November 4th 15 06:44 AM
by WA0CKY
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NGC 6120 and a Lot More by
WA0CKY
I found this rather busy field quite interesting as it has 3 NGC galaxies and a very flat galaxy as well as some other rather strange galaxies. I was going to...
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November 2nd 15 06:57 AM
by WA0CKY
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Ic 1291 by
WA0CKY
IC 1291 is a rather disturbed looking spiral galaxy in southern Draco just north of Lyra. It is classified SB(s)dm? according to NED. Redshift puts it a bit...
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October 31st 15 06:04 AM
by WA0CKY
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I Zw 148 A Galactic Mess by
WA0CKY
I Zw 148/PGC 58049 is one messed up piece of galaxy parts in Hercules about 375 million light-years distant. It has three listings in NED. The one for I Zw...
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October 27th 15 05:51 AM
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October 23rd 15 09:13 PM
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Here be aliens or so some say -- maybe by
WA0CKY
Back on November 28, 1967 a grad student, Jocelyn Bell, discovered something very odd in the data on a radio object. No one could explain the emissions that...
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Barnard 133 by
WA0CKY
Barnard 133 is a dark nebula in Aquila seen against the Scutum Star Cloud which does extend eastward into Aquila. It is rated at opacity 6 which is the most...
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October 19th 15 08:03 PM
by WA0CKY
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ASTRO: KjPn8 near NGC 7635 by
Stefan Lilge
KjPn8 is a Planetary Nebula near the famous bubble nebula, so it probably
has been imaged very often. It is seldom mentioned in the accompanying texts...
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October 17th 15 08:28 PM
by WA0CKY
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NGC 5252 With Noisy Voorwerpjes by
WA0CKY
I made another attempt at a voorwerpjes galaxy. This time NGC 5252 but conditions this night were awful. My sky was 4 times brighter than a previous night...
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NGC 6003 and NGC 6004 by
WA0CKY
NGC 6003 and 6004 are a pair of galaxies in Serpens Caput about 180 million light-years away by cosmological redshift. NGC 6003 is a rather dull, featureless...
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NGC 5792 An odd but yet normal galaxy by
WA0CKY
NGC 5792 is a rather large, in angular size barred spiral galaxy in northern Libra about 100 million light-years from us. I measure it as about 500 arc seconds...
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