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1 Attachment(s) Neon Saturn (APOD 3/13/2016) by bleak_fire_
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap160313.html Neon Saturn Image Credit: VIMS Team, U. Arizona, ESA, NASA Explanation: If seen in the right light, Saturn glows like...
March 21st 16 08:41 AM
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March 21st 16 08:32 AM
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3 Attachment(s) Open Cluster NGC 129 by WA0CKY
NGC 129 is an open cluster in Cassiopeia about 5300 light-years distant. Distances to open clusters are often hard to come by. Not for this cluster. The...
March 21st 16 07:47 AM
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4 Attachment(s) NGC 7261 An Ill Defined Open Cluster by WA0CKY
NGC 7261 is an open cluster in southern Cepheus located about 5500 light-years away according to WEBDA. They place its age at only 47 million years making it...
March 19th 16 06:59 AM
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3 Attachment(s) NGC 7132 a different "Black Eye" Galaxy? by WA0CKY
NGC 7132 is a somewhat disturbed appearing spiral about 50 minutes of arc northeast of Enif, the nose of Pegasus. Redshift puts it 360 million light-years...
March 11th 16 10:36 AM
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3 Attachment(s) NGC 7490 Repost by WA0CKY
I keep having to repost this as the Space Banter keeps removing it but never tells me they are or why. It's no different than my other posts yet keeps being...
March 9th 16 09:44 PM
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2 Attachment(s) Lopsided NGC 7593 by WA0CKY
NGC 7593 is an asymmetrical spiral in Pegasus below the Great Square. It also appears sloshed though I don't find a likely cause. The core is well west of...
March 9th 16 07:56 AM
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3 Attachment(s) Star Group NGC 1807 by WA0CKY
NGC 1807 is a star group just west of much larger NGC 1817 in southern Taurus just above Orion. It was first noted by John Herschel on January 25, 1832. It...
March 5th 16 08:29 PM
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2 Attachment(s) Hickson Compact Group 23 (HCG 23) by WA0CKY
HCG 23 contains 5 galaxies and is located in northwestern Eridanus. Unfortunately it is quite low in my sky. In the fall warm water and cold air above...
March 3rd 16 08:46 PM
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3 Attachment(s) Very Strange NGC 337 by WA0CKY
NGC 337 is a strange looking, possibly barred, spiral located in Cetus 60 to 70 million light-years distant. I measure its size at about 50,000 light-years. ...
March 1st 16 09:13 AM
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3 Attachment(s) NGC 7042 and NGC 7043 by WA0CKY
NGC 7042 and 7043 are a pair of spiral galaxies in southwest Pegasus just above Equuleus and east of Delphinus about 220 million light-years distant. Both are...
February 26th 16 07:07 AM
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3 Attachment(s) Barnard 23 by WA0CKY
Barnard 23 is a dark nebula in northern Taurus. I find very little on it. It is listed as being opacity 5 in which 6 is the most opaque. Not in a dense...
February 24th 16 08:44 AM
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2 Attachment(s) Low Surface Brightness IC 239 by WA0CKY
IC 239 is a low surface brightness spiral that is considered part of the NGC 1023 group. NGC 1023 is Arp 135 and is located about 45 minutes of arc east of IC...
February 22nd 16 08:20 AM
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2 Attachment(s) Open Cluster 6793 by WA0CKY
NGC 6793 is an open cluster in western Vulpecula about 3,600 light-years distant according to WEBDA. It is rather young at 440 million years of age. Still...
February 20th 16 08:19 PM
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2 Attachment(s) UZC-CG 276 Galaxy Group Including NGC 7227 and 7228 by WA0CKY
This field of galaxies a bit over a quarter of a billion light-years distant is rarely imaged by amateurs. I found only one color amateur image and only a...
February 18th 16 09:47 PM
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2 Attachment(s) NGC 90 Or What Squashed This Galaxy? by WA0CKY
NGC 95 is a very peculiar galaxy in Pisces some 230 million light-years distant by red-shift. Tully-Fisher estimates put it close at 190 million light-years...
February 18th 16 09:46 PM
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2 Attachment(s) FGC 2350/UGC 11838 A Very Flat Galaxy by WA0CKY
FGC 2350 is a flat galaxy in western Pegasus between the horses front feet almost into Cygnus. Red shift puts it 145 million light-years distant while the...
February 18th 16 09:41 PM
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3 Attachment(s) NGC 6882/6885 Cluster(s) or asterism(s)? by WA0CKY
NGC 6882/6885 is a star group in Vulpecula. It may be made up of several groups. WEBDA has nothing on it but a position. It is Trumpler class III2p so...
February 18th 16 09:37 PM
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3 Attachment(s) 3 Armed Spiral NGC 753 by WA0CKY
NGC 753 is a nice three armed spiral that is a member of the Abell 262 galaxy cluster. While the cluster has a radius of about 1.75 degrees and NGC 753+ is...
February 18th 16 08:23 PM
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