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4 Attachment(s) ASTRO: NGC 7711 Don't mess with this galaxy, it will eat you up by Rick Johnson[_2_]
NGC 7711 is located in Pegasus about 170 million light-years distant and classed as S0 by both NED and the NGC Project. It is one odd galaxy that Arp...
August 27th 12 10:23 PM
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3 Attachment(s) UGC 12578 and UGC 12589 by WA0CKY
UGC 12578 (lower right) and UGC 12589 (upper left) are a pair of galaxies in western Pisces. Both appear highly disturbed but are unrelated. UGC 12589 is 4...
August 27th 12 10:16 PM
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4 Attachment(s) ASTRO: Arp 297 reprocessed by Rick Johnson[_2_]
Arp 297 falls under Arp's category of galaxy groups, long filaments. It is located in Bootes. It's distance is a problem I'll get to. It is made up of...
August 27th 12 10:15 PM
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1 Attachment(s) ASTRO: NGC 6960 by Stefan Lilge
NGC 6960 is one of those targets that are imaged over and over, but I didn't have a decent version yet, so I went for it. I used the short nights from July 19...
August 22nd 12 05:06 AM
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3 Attachment(s) ASTRO: NGC 7223 et al by Rick Johnson[_2_]
NGC 7223 is a face on barred spiral in Lacerta about 200 million light-years away. It is part of a group of 18 galaxies known as the LDCE 1503 group. It...
August 20th 12 10:01 PM
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4 Attachment(s) ASTRO; KjPn 8 by Rick Johnson[_2_]
MO2001 104 is the core of a double planetary nebula. Technically it is the emission line star at the core of the nebula which goes by many designations. ...
August 18th 12 10:09 AM
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4 Attachment(s) ASTRO: B163 A dark nebula for a change by Rick Johnson[_2_]
Barnard 163 is one of many dark nebula in IC 1396 home of the far more famous "Elephant Trunk". IC 1396 is a huge emission nebula in Cepheus. Barnard 163...
August 16th 12 08:29 AM
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2 Attachment(s) ASTRO: NGC 6543 Cat's Eye by Rick Johnson[_2_]
NGC 6543, the Cat's Eye Nebula is located in Draco about 3000 light years from earth. It is a small planetary nebula about 27"x 24" of arc in size for the...
August 14th 12 07:53 PM
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2 Attachment(s) ASTRO: Palomar 7 / IC 1276 by Rick Johnson[_2_]
PAL7/IC 1276 is a globular cluster in Serpens Cauda. It's about 17,600 light-years from us and about 12,100 light years from the center of the galaxy. That...
August 12th 12 05:50 AM
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2 Attachment(s) ASTRO: Abell 61 by Rick Johnson[_2_]
Abell 61 is a planetary in Cygnus near the northeast border with Lyra. It is about the size of the M97, the Owl Nebula, but much fainter. So faint nearly...
August 10th 12 07:25 AM
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2 Attachment(s) ASTRO: IPHASX J200018.7+365934 Now that's obscure by Rick Johnson[_2_]
IPHASX J200018+365934 also known as NeVe 2, is a planetary nebula candidate in the heart of Cygnus. The brilliant star that made processing this a nightmare...
August 8th 12 05:14 AM
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2 Attachment(s) ASTRO: Kohoutek 1-14 by Rick Johnson[_2_]
Kohoutek 1-14/K1-14 is an interesting planetary nebula in Hercules. It's central star is a double star with a separation of only 0.34". The star is off...
August 6th 12 07:34 AM
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2 Attachment(s) ASTRO NGC 6426 by Rick Johnson[_2_]
NGC 6726 is a rather faint globular cluster in Ophiuchus in the Herschel 400 list. It is about 66,500 light-years from us and 46,300 light years from the...
August 4th 12 09:49 PM
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2 Attachment(s) ASTRO: Palomar 11 A Colorful Globular by Rick Johnson[_2_]
Palomar 11 (Pal 11) is located in Aquila about 47,000 light-years from us and 27,000 light-years from the center of the galaxy. It was discovered by George...
August 2nd 12 08:50 AM
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2 Attachment(s) ASTRO: NGC 6384 by Rick Johnson[_2_]
NGC 6384 is a low surface brightness galaxy in Ophiuchus about 80 million light-years away. Not a constellation in which you find many nice spiral galaxies!...
July 31st 12 08:36 AM
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4 Attachment(s) ASTRO: vdB 128 by Rick Johnson[_2_]
vdB128 is a mostly reflection nebula around a pulsating variable star in Cygnus. I found little distance information but one source lists a very iffy...
July 29th 12 08:59 PM
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4 Attachment(s) ASTRO: Palomar 10 One of the better Palomar globulars by Rick Johnson[_2_]
Palomar 10 is Sagitta's "other" globular cluster. It is about 19,000 light-years distant and about 21,000 light-years from the center of our galaxy. To see...
July 27th 12 08:42 PM
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ASTRO: NEO (153958) 2002 AM31 by Rick Johnson[_2_]
(153958) 2002 AM31 is a NEO (Near Earth Asteroid) that got a lot of print a few days ago. It passed "close" to earth on July 22.99. That was daylight here...
July 26th 12 06:00 PM
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3 Attachment(s) ASTRO: UGC 5101 One super strange galaxy Arp missed by Rick Johnson[_2_]
UGC 5101 is another one Arp overlooked. It has what he'd call a Jet going to the west. I don't know what he'd call the plume that arcs partly around the...
July 25th 12 05:42 AM
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2 Attachment(s) ASTRO: Palomar 15 by WA0CKY
Palomar 15 was cataloged by many as a galaxy. The Karachentseva Isolated Galaxy Catalogue says of it; "Resolved dwarf system. ...bright nucleus and diffuse...
July 23rd 12 07:43 AM
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