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ASTRO: UGC 672 and a hint of Andromeda X
Cleaning out the hard drive I'm finding things I'd processed, wasn't
happy with and forgot. This is one of them. In the center is the dwarf elliptical galaxy UGC 672. Some say it has interacted with NGC 258 (a interesting target still on my to-do list) others say that's hogwash. I can't find a good distance for it. Some say 15 million light years others almost double that, yet others say it is a member of the local group putting it even closer. Red shift at such a distance isn't all that reliable but would say about 20 million to round it out. It is the faint blue thing with a foreground star in the center. At the very bottom a tad left of center is the location of Andromeda X A handful of its faint stars may be in the image or they may be foreground stars. I am not sure. 14" LX200R @ f/10, L=4x10', RGB=2x10', STL-11000XM, Paramount ME Rick -- Correct domain name is arvig and it is net not com. Prefix is correct. Third character is a zero rather than a capital "Oh". |
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ASTRO: UGC 672 and a hint of Andromeda X
Nice image Rick! That is an odd one.
Rick Johnson wrote: Cleaning out the hard drive I'm finding things I'd processed, wasn't happy with and forgot. This is one of them. In the center is the dwarf elliptical galaxy UGC 672. Some say it has interacted with NGC 258 (a interesting target still on my to-do list) others say that's hogwash. I can't find a good distance for it. Some say 15 million light years others almost double that, yet others say it is a member of the local group putting it even closer. Red shift at such a distance isn't all that reliable but would say about 20 million to round it out. It is the faint blue thing with a foreground star in the center. At the very bottom a tad left of center is the location of Andromeda X A handful of its faint stars may be in the image or they may be foreground stars. I am not sure. 14" LX200R @ f/10, L=4x10', RGB=2x10', STL-11000XM, Paramount ME Rick ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- John N. Gretchen III N5JNG NCS304 http://www.tisd.net/~jng3 |
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ASTRO: UGC 672 and a hint of Andromeda X
Rick, quite an elusive target. Good shooting.
Stefan "Rick Johnson" schrieb im Newsbeitrag ... Cleaning out the hard drive I'm finding things I'd processed, wasn't happy with and forgot. This is one of them. In the center is the dwarf elliptical galaxy UGC 672. Some say it has interacted with NGC 258 (a interesting target still on my to-do list) others say that's hogwash. I can't find a good distance for it. Some say 15 million light years others almost double that, yet others say it is a member of the local group putting it even closer. Red shift at such a distance isn't all that reliable but would say about 20 million to round it out. It is the faint blue thing with a foreground star in the center. At the very bottom a tad left of center is the location of Andromeda X A handful of its faint stars may be in the image or they may be foreground stars. I am not sure. 14" LX200R @ f/10, L=4x10', RGB=2x10', STL-11000XM, Paramount ME Rick -- Correct domain name is arvig and it is net not com. Prefix is correct. Third character is a zero rather than a capital "Oh". |
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