Hi Folks While looking at the DSS images, I've noted a small asterism in the constellation of Monoceros. The coordinates are: 6 31 54 +11 51 46 (2000), ~12...
Most of the brighter stars are in the Bordeaux merdian circle catalogue and also in 2MASS. If you compare those positions against USNO-A2.0, you shoudl be...
Brian Skiff
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May 2, 2003 3:03 am
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If Sue could give me a good email adress, I can't send anything to the current scfrench@... thanks in advance, ... -- Carpe noctem, Yann. Yann Pothier...
Patricia Kurtz's excellent article on the 2002 Southern Skies Star Party at Lake Titicaca, Bolivia, appears in the new issue of Sky & Telescope (June 2003,...
This month the Skyhound feature article is "Focus On NGC 6240". This is an interesting find for users of moderate and large telescopes. I call it the...
Dave, ... What a beautiful small clustering of stars! Although it may well be a chance clustering of stars or just an absorption hole, it is still looks very...
Using VizieR and Aladin I pulled up the data form the USNO-B1.0 Catalog for a few of the brightest stars in the area. I'm not sure but, the proper motions that...
... When motions are 6 mas/yr or less, they are shown as zero in B1.0; actual errors on the motions are typically twice that value. This is why I suggested a...
Brian Skiff
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May 4, 2003 11:30 pm
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Using just stars in the "3" that were in both the 2MASS and USNO-A2. Is this the correct data Brian? USNO-A2.0 0975-03380115 RAJ2000 06 31 54.477 DEJ2000 +11...
... I've collected astrometry for the brighter stars, but am distracted just now observing asteroids, so will give an accounting (which I hope will be...
Brian Skiff
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May 5, 2003 4:41 am
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While working on a list of SECGPN possible planetary nebulae. I came across a real neat looking object (proto-Planetary?), called SRWW 1 in the SECGPN and...
Kent Wallace
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May 5, 2003 2:40 pm
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A quick note on an asterism located at approximately 18 54 31 +5 15 58 (2000) in Serpens Cauda -- a small ring of 6 stars about 1 arcminute across. Brightest...
Dear Friends, I will not be able to visit Bolivia for the 2003 Star Party, however, for any of you that could fly to there and have a stop in Lima, you can...
Uh-huh. Fair go, m8. I'd love to be proved wrong, but I don't think it will be too long before some gormless nurk slips the 'Blowjob' nebula into the pantheon...
You have a rather colorful way of writing, what with your "gormless nurks" and "clocking." It is my hope that such colorful language find its way into the...
STARLOG May 3, 2003 Into the Lion's Den Observer: Tom Campbell Location: Iola, Kansas (Long: 95°24'W Lat: 37°55'N) Equipment: Discovery DHQ 8" dobsonian ...
Collected below is astrometry from readily available catalogues for selected stars in the field of the small clump that Dave Riddle pointed out a few days ago....
Brian Skiff
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May 7, 2003 3:42 am
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Brian, Thanks for the star cluster distance primer. Being another star-clump collector, I've wondered how many of them might be real. I'll be studying that...
Hi folks, The Mercury transit was visible quite beautifully here in southern Sweden (through more or less thin clouds). Equipped with my first 2.4-inch...
Here's my Mercury transit tale of woe. I arose just before 5:00 a.m. EDT (9:00 UT) only to hear a less than inspiring weather forecast on the NOAA station....
Mercury Transit May 7, 2003 Kent Blackwell Prior this morning, it had been many years since seeing tiny Mercury slip across the face of the sun. I awakened...
Kent, I'm glad you were more fortunate than I was. Did you go the Delmarva Stargaze? If the forecast had been favorable I was planning on being there. Any...
For those who missed the Delmarva Stargaze; well, it was mostly cloudy but still a few peeks at the sky. And one heck of a good time, as most star parties are....
Looks like the image didn't make it, Kent. Probably against the group rules. Can you post it to a web site? Sounds like you had a wonderful time. Clear...
It's on the Delmarva Star Gazers Yahoo page, as well as the Back Bay Amateur Astronomers page. I'll email it to you personally as well. Kent ... From: "Dave...
Hi folks, A couple of weeks ago I observed the galaxy pair NGC3583 and NGC3577 in Ursa Major with my 8-inch SCT and 100x magnification. NGC3583 was pretty...
I've heard Centaurus A (NGC 5128) http://www.seds.org/messier/xtra/ngc/n5128.html been called "The Hamburger" I now use that name for it also :) Regs, Paul. ...
Hi Paul, "The Hamburger" for Centaurus A has been quite common in Western Australia for a number of years. So many in fact that I can no longer remember when ...
Maurice Clark
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May 9, 2003 3:29 pm
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Are the beta testers for UCAC2 under NDA? If not, is there anyone in this group in possession of the beta who would care to comment on it? Anything noteworthy...
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