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999 |
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ASTRO: Arp 204 A galactic freak by
Rick Johnson[_2_]
If there is ever a freak show for galaxies this one would be the
headliner.
Arp 204 is a two or three galaxy mash-up in northern Camelopardalis less
than 6...
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1 |
808 |
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ASTRO: UGC 5676 by
Rick Johnson[_2_]
UGC 5676/PGC 30871 is a very strange galaxy in Ursa Major just off the
southwest corner of the bowl of the Big Dipper asterism. NED gives it
the...
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0 |
789 |
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ASTRO: NGC 2170, NGC 2182 and GN 06.05.7.02 by
Rick Johnson[_2_]
NGC 2170 is a mostly reflection nebula in Monoceros. It is the nebula
at the upper right. To its left is GN 06.05.7.02 and in the upper left
corner is NGC...
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766 |
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875 |
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ASTRO: Arp 80 and friends in faint IFN by
Rick Johnson[_2_]
Arp 80/NGC 2633 is located in northern Camelopardalis with a red shift
distance of about 100 million light-years. Other distance estimates
range from 89...
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810 |
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ASTRO: Arp 78 Reprocessed by
Rick Johnson[_2_]
NGC 40 was my last December 2011 post. I'm ready to move into 2012 and
be in the current year -- not for long obviously.
Arp 78/NGC 772 is a spiral galaxy...
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1 |
786 |
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ASTRO: IC 277 by
Rick Johnson[_2_]
IC 277 is a galaxy with a large plume suggested to me by Sakib Rasool.
It is about 120 million light-years distant in the constellation of
Cetus. Why it has...
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863 |
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ASTRO: NGC 40 by
Rick Johnson[_2_]
NGC 40 is a very red planetary nebula in Cepheus about 3000 to 3500
light-years away. The distance to these objects is hard to pin down.
Papers indicate...
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1 |
691 |
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ASTRO: NGC 1514 by
Stefan Lilge
Weather has been awful here, both November and December only had one night
suitable for imaging.
My December image was NGC 1514, which I chose mainly because...
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0 |
685 |
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ASTRO Arp 181 by
Rick Johnson[_2_]
Arp 181 is a pair of NGC objects in northern Draco about 429 to 440
million light-years away. Arp put it in his category for galaxies with
narrow filaments....
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0 |
706 |
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ASTRO: Arp 225 What a mess this one is by
Rick Johnson[_2_]
Arp 225/NGC 2655 is a nearby strange galaxy in Camelopardalis. Red
shift puts it about 65 million light-years away though a Tully estimate
says more like...
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985 |
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ASTRO: Arp 17 by
Rick Johnson[_2_]
Arp 17/UGC 03972/VV 349 is located in Camelopardalis about 230 million
light-years away by redshift. I found no other distance estimates. Arp
included it in...
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513 |
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0 |
1,094 |
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(4179) Toutatis by
WA0CKY
Last night (December 12, 2012 UT or 12-12-12 which my neighbor thinks it a bad omen) the asteroid (4179) Toutatis passed by us at a bit over 4.25 million miles...
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by WA0CKY
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1,077 |
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Palomar 1 by
Rick Johnson[_2_]
Palomar 1 is in Cepheus about 36 thousand light-years from us and 56,000
light-years from the center of our galaxy. It was discovered by George
Abell in...
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0 |
676 |
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ASTRO: Arp 207 by
Rick Johnson[_2_]
Arp 207 is located in western Draco near the border with Camelopardalis.
Redshift puts it about 100 million light-years away. Arp put it in
his category...
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0 |
786 |
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ASTRO: WBL 130 by
Rick Johnson[_2_]
WBL 130 is a three galaxy group in the southeast corner of Lynx. NED
lists it as being about 270 million light-years away and consisting of
three galaxies. ...
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1 |
703 |
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ASTRO: NGC 188 by
Rick Johnson[_2_]
NGC 188 is the northernmost and one of the oldest known open star
clusters. It is less than 5 degrees from the pole and over 5 billion
years old. What...
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1 |
915 |
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ASTRO: NGC 1499 by
Stefan Lilge
Second light for the TS 80/480 triplet was the California nebula. I did not manage to find a contrasty setting without saturating the brighter parts, so it...
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1,045 |