It's good that they were noticed a long time ago; I'll unclaim what modest credit is attached. Since these star-groups are no more ridiculous than other...
Brian Skiff
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May 1, 2008 2:52 am
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A revised and enlarged batch of positions for NGC/IC objects is copied out to the Lowell ftp area: ftp://ftp.lowell.edu/pub/bas/deepsky/hgcjr.ngcpos.dat This...
Brian Skiff
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May 1, 2008 5:17 am
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Steve is the ADS site still being updated? Owen ... Owen Brazell...
Following up my observing report on spiral galaxies from Australia, here are some of the interesting planetaries that I took notes on (I'm skipping the...
Last night I was treated to a pleasant surprise as I made my first attempt to observe comet Boattini with my 8" f/6 Dob. Sharing the low power, 38X view with...
Gee, Brian, its not like I was trying to take something away from you <g>. Lets give credit where credit is due -- you recognized a (potentially NGC) cluster...
I have a chance to spot my first opposing crescent along with most of the U.S. Those on the eastern seaboard may have a much more difficult time of getting the...
A notoriously difficult feat to accomplish, indeed, speaking as the first person ever to have reported actually doing this (April 1990)...and it took me around...
Thank you for the heads-up, Kenneth. Aesthetes take note: the Moon and Mercury will be in conjunction on Tuesday evening, May 6. -- Dave ... From: Kenneth...
Andrea Boattini has found another comet, announced on IAUC 8940 and MPEC 2008-J17. His latest find is designated C/2008 J1 (Boattini), and is a pre-dawn...
Brian Skiff
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May 3, 2008 4:19 am
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Hi all, Does anyone have the 338 galaxies from Arps original list set up in an excel spreadsheet or a text file, containing other relevant information ...
Amateur Dennis Webb made a file for the Strasbourg VizieR that should have what you're looking for. There's also Webb's fat book devoted exclusively to the...
Brian Skiff
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May 4, 2008 1:32 am
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John, Here is a simple list: http://members.aol.com/arpgalaxy/arpord.html You download it to your desktop and open it in Excel or the new Open Office.org and...
... Hi John, If you look in the user files section at the Argo group, you will find the Arp Atlas in Argo format that I posted there four years ago. All ...
By coincidence, I happened to observe a number of Arp pairings last night with my 18". Unless mentioned otherwise, the observations were at 260x. The links...
Let me add that folks who regularly import lists into the Argo Navis will find this makes life much easier: http://www.ilangainc.com/astroplanner/ Peace, Rod...
... in an ... information ... with me? ... Argo ... bit ... find ... Duh !!! to me. Would you believe that was the first place I looked, but I only got to...
How did others fare? As John Bortle pointed out, this is no easy task to accomplish. I was fortunate in managing both observations from near my home in...
I was looking at Comet 46P/Wirtanen in Cancer last night and it happened to be superimposed over the half-moon sized planetary nebula PN G191.4+33.1. With an...
Last month while I was observing in Australia, I took a look at LMC N49 (= LHA 120-N49), which I believe is the brightest SNR in the LMC. It was on my...
Hi Steve, You always come up with interesting targets. N49 is now on my observing list for October in Coonabarabran, Australia. I also plan to go back down in...
Ed Beshore of the Catalina group in Tucson has found a relatively bright comet in Ophiuchus that promises to become somewhat brighter in the coming months....
Brian Skiff
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May 7, 2008 9:50 pm
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At least so far dust effects from this eruption appear to be regional only, and not global. The dust is showing up just above the noise level in the aerosol...
Brian Skiff
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May 7, 2008 10:19 pm
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Alan Prevailing winds, as used heavily in the days of sail are from west to eadt - the so called roaring forties at lat 40 south. Thus any adverse atmospherics...
Hi Kent, This PN is located at (2000) 08 27 05.6 +31 30 09 with a size of 865" in Cancer. It is a Supplement 1 to the SECGPN planetary nebula also known as TK...
Kent Wallace
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May 8, 2008 2:07 am
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Brian, I noticed on the OMI site that there's a HUGE amount of aerosol optical depth in western Africa; Saharan dust storm? While it appears limited, the AOD...
... Having looked at those maps for a few years, I can tell you that the Saharan dust is the usual thing particularly this time of year, and it is often much...
Brian Skiff
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2:26 am
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The ash has already reached Buenos Aires (more than 2,000 km. away from the volcano) this morning so tonight I couldn't observe. The ash cloud is 3,500 meters...
