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Spiral NGC 4527 by
WA0CKY
While nearly all my images are oriented north up. This galaxy looked "upside down" to me so I'm breaking my rule and displaying this field south at the...
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July 5th 16 09:01 AM
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UGC 6446 A Crab-Like Messed Up Spiral by
WA0CKY
UGC 6446 is a low surface brightness, face on spiral in Ursa Major just under the bowl of the Big Dipper. Redshift puts it about 38 million light-years...
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July 3rd 16 07:00 AM
by WA0CKY
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Ngc 5100/5106 by
WA0CKY
On January 23, 1784 William Herschel found a galaxy. He recorded the RA but not the declination except in general terms. He never went back to it. Tempel...
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July 1st 16 06:10 AM
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WBL 543 and a lot more by
WA0CKY
The three galaxies in the center are the WBL Galaxy Group. NGC 5851, 5852 and PGC 53961 at about 310 million light-years in southeastern Bootes. Several...
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June 29th 16 09:13 AM
by WA0CKY
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June 25th 16 06:32 AM
by WA0CKY
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756 |
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VII Zw 279 A Ring Galaxy by
WA0CKY
I Zw 279 or how to write several paragraphs with nothing to write about. But I like to type so here goes, well, nothing much.
As I've mentioned before, ring...
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June 21st 16 06:50 AM
by WA0CKY
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June 17th 16 07:18 PM
by WA0CKY
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Announcing the discovery of a dwarf galaxy by
WA0CKY
It's not often an amateur gets to announce a new galaxy. But it appears I have discovered a previously unrecognized dwarf irregular galaxy probably on the...
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June 17th 16 07:06 PM
by WA0CKY
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ASTRO: Abell 39 (PN in Hercules) by
Stefan Lilge
I wanted to do one narrowband-target in the clear nights in early May and
Abell 39 came to my mind. So far I only had a b/w version.
I binned all frames 2x2...
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ASTRO: NGC 5112 by
Stefan Lilge
NGC 5112 (a rather strange galaxy in CVn) was another target for those nice
clear nights at the beginning of May.
I gathered data in five nights which was a...
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IC 620 and a Neat Ring Galaxy by
WA0CKY
IC 620 is one of a pair of interacting galaxies about 470,000 light-years distant. The Sc galaxy is located in Leo about 6 degrees east of Regulus. The pair...
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IC 480 An Edge On Flat Galaxy by
WA0CKY
I put IC 480/2MFGC 6287 on my to-do list when I saw an amateur image of it that showed it as very blue. An edge on galaxy may be blue at the ansae but usually...
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Planetary Nebula NGC 2022 by
WA0CKY
NGC 2022 is a multi-shell planetary nebula just east of Orion's head. The Hubble Space Telescope page says it is 5000 light-years distant. I found no other...
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NGC 3982 and a lot more by
WA0CKY
Thanks to having now over 1500 narrow angle fields in my image library, all covering only about one fifth of a square degree of sky, I'm now starting to find,...
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June 13th 16 07:49 AM
by WA0CKY
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June 13th 16 07:33 AM
by WA0CKY
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IC 527 and a lot more strange stuff by
WA0CKY
My original object of interest was IC 527 due to an entry in the UGC stating "Smooth faint disk, no spiral pattern." Yet the POSS image showed a very obvious...
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June 11th 16 09:15 AM
by WA0CKY
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Spiral IC 467 by
WA0CKY
When I imaged NGC 2336 in 2013 I noted some references said it was a non interacting pair with IC 467. That caused me to put that galaxy on the to-do list. ...
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June 7th 16 09:06 PM
by WA0CKY
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IC 2375, 2377, 2379 and MCG -02-22-011 by
WA0CKY
I thought I was imaging a nice three galaxy group consisting of IC 2375 2377 and 2379. I saw a fourth similarly bright galaxy at the very bottom but paid it...
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June 5th 16 07:44 AM
by WA0CKY
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Spirals NGC 4639 and 4654 by
WA0CKY
NGC 4639 and NGC 4654 are a pair of spiral galaxies on the edge of the Virgo Cluster. They are located in northern Virgo. In fact the top 18% of the image is...
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June 3rd 16 06:00 AM
by WA0CKY
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IC 620 and a Neat Ring Galaxy 2nd Try by
WA0CKY
I really messed up the processing of the ring galaxy by using way too much deconvolution that created non existent detail. I reined in the deconvolution to...
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June 1st 16 08:46 PM
by WA0CKY
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