Just in case people (like myself) didn't notice it... 10 Hygiea occults a 9th mag star on the morning of Friday March 2. The mag drop is 2.1, and the duration...
Squeezed in this image of NGC 2207 and IC 2163 last night before the cloud rolled in AGAIN! DOH! It was a bit blowy initially and I resorted to unguided subs...
Once again a lovely image. I wonder what that faint blob just below IC 2163 is. It could be an elliptical galaxy further away, a massive globular at the edge...
Morland, John
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Feb 5, 2006 11:22 pm
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Thnaks JM After looking at all the Hubble shots of this galaxy on the net it appears to be a distant background object probably an eliptical galaxy..? Mike ......
Mike You are correct I think. Megastar shows the 16.5 magnitude galaxy MAC 0616-2122 in about that position. Very pretty image by the way. Cheers Steve...
Steve Crouch
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Feb 6, 2006 12:24 pm
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Hi folks, Owing to the shutdown for maintenance of our usual venue, folding this month is arranged for 7 p.m. on Thursday at the Canberra City Bowling Club,...
Two images from Last night: NGC 3576 - 2hrs of exposure in Halpha light while the moon was up: http://www.pbase.com/strongmanmike2002/image/55866381/large and...
Forgot I had som RGB data from an 80mm APO image from lsat year, so I used it to throw some colour in to the Ha image of NGC 3576, not perfect but ok :-) ...
Hello Everyone, My name is Ian McLeod, and I will be joining the club as soon as I can hand in my membership funds - next meeting I presume. In the meantime,...
... Well, there was! For those who missed it, the Chilean multicultural festival song and dance group will be appearing in Garema Place on Saturday 11th from...
I managed to get some detail in the Honoculous around Eta Carina Wide field Ha image http://www.pbase.com/strongmanmike2002/image/55793262 Close up of...
For those not aware, there is a 'relatively' bright comet visible in the morning sky - easily visible through binoculars. The following is an ephemeris, for...
I don't know if this is of any interest to anyone but I came across this page while looking for something else. It gives a pretty good list of currently...
Steve Crouch
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Feb 12, 2006 7:13 am
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I've been trying for a good session with Jupiter for over a month, we've had a run of very poor seeing so far this year. Last Friday night was the best so far,...
There is a fairly good asteroidal occultation Monday evening of next week. The basic details are: Star mag 10.4 Mag drop at occultation 3.4 Max duration 10.2...
Wednesday morning of next week will see a daytime occultation of Antares. This is the first occultation in the current series, which lasts for several years....
Here's a chance for the budding astro-photographers out there. Note that Robin is not interested in deep exposures, but in wide-angle stuff that matches what...
Vince Ford
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Feb 16, 2006 3:16 am
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Received the first for the season of "Venus as a UFO" reports this morning at 6 a.m. You're going to miss these when you retire, Vince! At mag -4.6, Venus...
Hi to all This is my first ever image using the Takahashi Epsilon 180 (F2.8 Astrograph). I decided to do a narrow band shot of the Tarantula because the still...
Steve Crouch
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Feb 19, 2006 4:48 am
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Very nice! How do you have the scope set up? Did you get just the tube assembly, and piggy-back it onto your 14" or did you get the mount as shown on the...
Thanks Dave. I got a Losmandy dovetail plate for it which had to have some modification done to it before it would fit the bolt holes on the Takahashi rings...
Steve Crouch
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Feb 19, 2006 6:41 am
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surf to http://members.bellatlantic.net/~vze3fs8i/hist/hist.html I promise there are no annoying images, just on eparagraph of content by Eric Schulman....
Possible? Go to: http://www.universetoday.com/am/publish/lunar_olympics.html ********************************************************************** Please...
Morland, John
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Feb 21, 2006 6:39 am
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Did anyone else see the Antares occultation at 7:07 this morning? Despite the sun being up, the star was very easy in both telescope and binoculars. The bright...
Mike Nelmes
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Feb 22, 2006 10:55 am
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The 2 new moons of Pluto discovered last year have been confirmed by the HST. For a nice image see: ...