M 104, Stargate and Jaws

Hi all,

I just added a wonderful trio of deepsky objects to my Deepsky TOP
100:

Stargate, Jaws and M 104.

Stargate and Jaws are two asterisms from Phil Harrington's book "The
Deepsky, an introduction". They will help you to locating M 104,
a bright galaxy near the Corvus-Virgo border. All three objects are
very easy to locate and recognize, even from a suburban
backyard. I found them with my 8-inch in a heavily light polluted
southern sky. My advice, get out and hunt them down!

For an article with an online finder chart, a downloadable finder
chart (PDF), and sketches of the objects, follow the link below.

http://www.backyard-astro.com/deepsky/top100/15.html

Enjoy!


Math
http://www.backyard-astro.com

M104 and the Stargate are two of my favorite objects. But Jaws is new to =
me. Always nice to have something new. ;-)

-Florian

M104 and the Stargate are two of my favorite objects. But Jaws is new =
to me.=20

Actually, now that i look at your sketch, i am famililar with the string =
of 3 stars
that's part of Jaws. Just never noticed the rest of the arc. Thanks =
Math.

-Florian

Florian wrote:
M104 and the Stargate are two of my favorite objects. But Jaws is new to me.


Actually, now that i look at your sketch, i am famililar with the string of 3 stars
that's part of Jaws. Just never noticed the rest of the arc. Thanks Math.

-Florian



Hi Florian,

Once you've see Jaws, you won't forget him )

Math