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22621
Hello Wouter, You can find it in http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/amastro/files/ ... LocalGroup.txt Bruno...
Bruno
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Oct 23, 2009
12:02 pm
22622
Hi Kent, Just came across another one you might use tonight and tomorrow. Saw a shot in the 'Gallery' of the December 2008 Sky & Telescope of 'The Witches...
Dana Patchick
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Oct 23, 2009
7:36 pm
22623
Thanks, Dana. I scared everyone at the East Coast Star Party with a number of favorites. It was great fun. The weather also scared some, so I had less people...
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Oct 26, 2009
4:19 pm
22624
Hi All I have got A tough one here and need some help. This Dark period and last winter I have had several negative observations of Mink 2-3 in Auriga with my...
Jimi Lowrey
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Oct 27, 2009
8:27 pm
22625
This is not a planetary nebula. Published spectra show no [OIII] emission, so clearly an [OIII] filter will actually make it dimmer. There is only H-alpha...
Brian Skiff
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Oct 27, 2009
9:16 pm
22626
I haven't tried to see Mink 2-3 in a very long time. If it's any help here are my notes from my last try, in 2005! Date: 2005 March 3 10:08p Observer: Kent...
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Oct 27, 2009
10:18 pm
22627
I tried a UHC filter last night ,with no response! I see the star at the location but can not make out any of the nebula! Jimi ... From: Brian Skiff To:...
Jimi Lowrey
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Oct 27, 2009
10:21 pm
22628
Brian wrote: SIMBAD, by the way, shows this incorrectly as IC 2120. The IC name, however, is one of the very few known to be a (known) comet from the 1890s...
Barbara Wilson
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Oct 27, 2009
10:25 pm
22629
Thanks Kent Sounds like my view last night!! But how did Steve Coe see it in a 13.5? Jimi ... From: kent@... To: amastro@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday,...
Jimi Lowrey
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Oct 27, 2009
10:58 pm
22630
Hi Barabara Mink2-3 is a different object Than IC 2120. I know all about the 1890 comet and IC2120, Jimi ... From: Barbara Wilson To: amastro@yahoogroups.com ;...
Jimi Lowrey
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Oct 27, 2009
10:58 pm
22631
I also have a "highly suspected" observation of M 2-3 on one occasion unfiltered at 220x-280x with a 17.5", besides a few definite misses. But based on Jimi's...
Steve Gottlieb
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Oct 28, 2009
12:47 am
22632
Hi Jim, Here is my negitive observation from almost nine years ago: Attempted to observe M 2-3 at Navajo Flats, California, on 12/28/00 with the 20" f/5.0...
Kent Wallace
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Oct 28, 2009
2:34 am
22633
Hi Jimi, Yes I know its different. What I was referring to was: My question 15 or more years ago to Brian Skiff about IC2120 "what the heck is Ic2120" , which...
Barbara Wilson
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Oct 28, 2009
4:11 am
22634
... It was of course the memory of that affair that allowed me to know that the SIMBAD entry is "historically incorrect". There is a lot of literature,...
Brian Skiff
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Oct 28, 2009
4:27 am
22635
Hi Kent I'm going to try again tonight when the moon sets, it will be well placed by then! But I don't have much hope in seeing it! Jimi ... From: Kent Wallace...
Jimi Lowrey
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Oct 28, 2009
6:42 am
22636
Hi Jim, There is paper from 1983 available via CDS which gives the absolute H-beta flux of Mi 2-3: http://cdsads.u-strasbg.fr/abs/1983RMxAA...8..187C Their...
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Oct 28, 2009
10:14 am
22637
FWIW 10-inch at 192x. OIII no. H-beta dubious. UHC maybe. Clear skies, Sue ... From: amastro@yahoogroups.com [mailto:amastro@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of ...
Sue French
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Oct 28, 2009
3:26 pm
22638
Halo All, Which star is the famous Merrill's star? M4 to be the nearest globular cluster but the obscure FSR 1767 to be nearer? Do anybody have coordinates for...
Magda Streicher
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Nov 2, 2009
11:43 am
22639
Hi Magda, ... Merrill's star is a WR star in the constellation of Sagitta that is surrounded by the (photographically) bright nebula Sh2-80 = PK 50+3.1 = M...
cybermudl
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Nov 2, 2009
2:42 pm
22640
Hi Magda, Merrill's Star is located at (2000) 19 11 30.9 +16 51 38 in Sagittarius. There is a nice picture at APOD for November 9, 1998. APOD calls it WR124,...
Kent Wallace
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Nov 2, 2009
3:50 pm
22641
Thanks Matthias as always you respond soon. I assume then the dust hole will be too faint to check out in ordinary telescopes, but thanks for the information....
Magda Streicher
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Nov 3, 2009
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22642
Hello all I was doing some research tonight on objects to view for the next dark period. I came across this object on the Poss1 images and I could not ID it. I...
Jimi Lowrey
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Nov 5, 2009
8:07 am
22643
Hi Jimi, yes, it's (probably) a planetary. It's ID is Teutsch 11 and a nice H-alpha image of it you can find in our recent PN paper: ...
cybermudl
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Nov 5, 2009
10:30 am
22644
Jimi, ... as Matthias already noted, this overlooked, a bit odd-looking object has been published recently, and it looks like it could be a variety of a PN....
philazur2000
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Nov 5, 2009
11:08 am
22645
In Sue French's December column in S&T, she discusses the interesting field of reflection nebulae near Beta Cas that includes vdB 1 and two, small detached...
Steve Gottlieb
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Nov 6, 2009
7:57 pm
22646
Hi Steve, I took a look at this field with my 16" http://www.deepsky-visuell.de/Zeichnungen/VdB1_HH164.htm under very good conditios, unfiltered with 180x. ...
Uwe Glahn
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Nov 6, 2009
8:11 pm
22647
Hey Bruno, You'll want to compare your list with the ongoing compilation Brian Skiff keeps on his Lowell ftp site - ...
DDK
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Nov 6, 2009
8:20 pm
22648
... Do note that since the recent spate of extremely faint Local Group discoveries has ramped up I haven't been maintaining that list. There are now nearly as...
Brian Skiff
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Nov 7, 2009
5:25 am
22649
Thanks for the link to the paper, I will enjoy reading it. Jimi ... From: cybermudl To: amastro@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, November 05, 2009 4:29 AM ...
Jimi Lowrey
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Nov 7, 2009
2:22 pm
22650
A CBET issued this evening US time reports a nova in Scutum found by Nishimura. About mag 9 and the position is given as: 18 43 45.6 -07 36 42 (J2000). \Brian...
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