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3 Attachment(s) Ngc 3846a by WA0CKY
NGC 3846A/UGC 06706 is a low_surface_brightness blue galaxy located in the bowl of the big dipper about 2 degrees northwest of Phecda at a red shift indicating...
September 8th 15 09:20 PM
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2 Attachment(s) NGC 5246 and NGC 5247 an interacting pair by WA0CKY
NGC 5296 and NGC 5297 are a pair of interacting galaxies that Arp was well aware of yet, for some reason, didn't include in his atlas. I'll get to the Arp...
September 8th 15 09:15 PM
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2 Attachment(s) UGC 6614 a rare GLSBG by WA0CKY
UGC 6614 is one of the largest Giant Low Surface Brightness Galaxies (GLSBG) known. Even at 300 million light-years distance it is large in my image. I...
September 8th 15 09:13 PM
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2 Attachment(s) Shk 166 Galaxy Chain by WA0CKY
Shk 166 (Shakhbazian 166) is a chain of galaxies within the much larger galaxy cluster Abell 2247. It is located in Ursa Minor not far from Epsilon. It lies...
September 8th 15 09:09 PM
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3 Attachment(s) NGC 5992 and 5993 aka KPG 471 by WA0CKY
KPG 471 is a pair of galaxies in eastern Bootes near the border with Hercules that lie about 430 to 440 million light-years from us. The two carry the NGC...
September 8th 15 08:55 PM
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4 Attachment(s) NGC 4242 A Low Surface Brightness Galaxy With No Core by WA0CKY
NGC 4242 is a very low surface brightness spiral galaxy in Canes Venatici about 1.75 degrees south of much better known M106. It may in fact be related to...
September 8th 15 08:52 PM
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2 Attachment(s) FGC 189A and kkh 84 by WA0CKY
First post got scrambled. Trying again. This field is located in northeastern Virgo very near the border with Bootes. It contains two objects I had on my...
September 3rd 15 06:05 AM
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2 Attachment(s) USGC S171 galaxy group -- Major Identity Crisis by WA0CKY
When I imaged the USGC S171 galaxy group I had no idea what a can of worms I was opening. I looked up the group on a POSS server nothing odd was seen. When I...
September 1st 15 06:26 AM
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3 Attachment(s) WBL 227 Galaxy Group by WA0CKY
WBL 227 is a group of spiral galaxies about 350 million light-years distant in Ursa Major less than two degrees from the far more famous M51 in Canes Venatici....
August 30th 15 07:45 AM
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3 Attachment(s) WBL 400 Galaxy Group by WA0CKY
The galaxy trio of WBL 400 was suggested to me by Sakib Rasool as a group of slightly interacting galaxies. The group is located in western Canes Venatici...
August 24th 15 08:22 AM
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3 Attachment(s) Ic 849 by WA0CKY
IC 0849 is a SAB(rs)cd pec? face on spiral galaxy in central Virgo about 260 million light-years distant by redshift and 300 million by analysis of a type II...
August 22nd 15 07:32 AM
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2 Attachment(s) DDO 103 and 104 by WA0CKY
DDO 103 is a highly disrupted blue ring galaxy of the irregular Magellanic classification in the_northwestern_corner of Corvus which puts it at the very edge...
August 12th 15 08:18 AM
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2 Attachment(s) UGC 11185 Colliding galaxies with Voorwerpjes by WA0CKY
UGC 11185 is a pair of interacting galaxies in northwestern Lyra. The right edge of my frame is only a couple minutes of arc into Lyra from Hercules. This...
August 10th 15 07:56 AM
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2 Attachment(s) Barnard's Star A Movie 9 Years in the Making by WA0CKY
This is my annual update to my movie of the proper motion of Barnard's Star. It now covers 9 years (9 animation frames) from 2007 to 2015 (July). Nothing...
August 6th 15 07:37 AM
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3 Attachment(s) Galaxies NGC 5410 and UGC 8932 by WA0CKY
NGC 5410 and UGC 8932 are a pair of apparently interacting galaxies in Canes Venatici about 180 million light-years distant. NGC 5410 is classed as SB? while...
August 2nd 15 12:14 AM
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1 Attachment(s) ASTRO: PN IC 1295 and GC NGC 6712 by Stefan Lilge
I recently had an urgent feeling that I should get something faster than f/8. F/2.2 seemed just right so I bought a Celestron RASA. My hope is that this will...
August 1st 15 11:56 PM
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3 Attachment(s) NGC 5341, 5349 and 5351 plus a lot more by WA0CKY
Three NGC galaxies and a UGC galaxy plus a lot of background galaxies make for a rather nice field. Two of the NGC galaxies and the UGC galaxy are members of...
July 31st 15 07:27 AM
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4 Attachment(s) Ic 498 by WA0CKY
IC 0498 is a spiral galaxy that fits Arp's category for spirals with one heavy arm. Its arm seems odd in that the heavy part spirals in to the end of a much...
July 29th 15 02:56 AM
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1 Attachment(s) ASTRO: SNR Sharpless 2-94 by Stefan Lilge
Another one with the RASA. Sh2-94 is (like SH2-96 and Sh2-91) part of the SNR G 65.3+5.7 in Cygnus. I imaged it during last full moon, which of course is not...
July 28th 15 05:11 AM
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3 Attachment(s) NGC 4151 A Famous Galaxy you may not know by WA0CKY
NGC 4151 is one of two galaxies studied in the paper that introduced the concept of Seyfert Galaxies so is one of the most researched galaxies in the sky. So...
July 28th 15 04:54 AM
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