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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...
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944 |
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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...
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787 |
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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...
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886 |
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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...
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846 |
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688 |
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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...
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629 |
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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...
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807 |
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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...
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967 |
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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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633 |
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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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967 |
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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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707 |
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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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1,371 |
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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...
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896 |
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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...
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902 |
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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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4,033 |
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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...
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4,198 |
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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...
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4,320 |
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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...
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889 |
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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...
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700 |
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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,...
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856 |