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Re: Relatively bright stars in M31 Of course Brian already pointed us to this paper back in October 2008... Wouter ... -- People: "If she weighs the same as a Duck, she's made of wood!" Sir Posted - Fri May 25, 2012 9:29 am	Wouter van Reeven wvreeven Offline Send Email
Relatively bright stars in M31 Hi, I just stumbled upon this paper http://arxiv.org/abs/0809.5283 which contains a catalog of stars in M31. I was very surprised to find quite a few stars of Posted - Fri May 25, 2012 9:27 am	Wouter van Reeven wvreeven Offline Send Email
Re: Supernova in NGC 4424 ... Hi All, I observed this supernova last Saturday night from San Diego's Anza Borrego desert, using a 20" f5 dob with a 13mm Ethos eyepiece. It was visible Posted - Thu May 24, 2012 1:48 am	Paul Alsing paul.alsing... Offline Send Email
Two-foot Diameter Pinhole Crescents and Endless Baily's Beads Two-foot Diameter Pinhole Crescents and Endless Baily's Beads Jim Failes had worried that we wouldn't find a suitable deciduous tree in the Nevada desert to Posted - Wed May 23, 2012 4:35 pm	alan whitman alandwhitman Offline Send Email
Re: NGC 6833 in Cygnus OK, so this is a blazed grating combined with a cylindrical lens to widen the spectrum a bit. The un-dispersed 'dots' are thus almost certainly coming from Posted - Wed May 23, 2012 4:33 am	Brian Skiff bas@... Send Email
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