Ron, One somewhat recent example of amateurs making useful observations was during the 1999 Mars appartion. Professionals with Hubble Space Telescope time to...
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Denis Boucher
boucherd@...
May 20, 2003 4:58 am
We made a text file for Guide last year. It has most of the M31 GCs. Email me and I will forward. Denis ... From: "The Maniacal Engineer"...
Folks, Can you please check M49 for an apparent 12th magnitude supernova about 3' east of the nucleus that I spotted at 0540 UTC May 21st with Chaco...
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Brian Skiff
brian.skiff@...
May 21, 2003 7:34 am
... There is a mag. 12.5 star about 1' east of the center that is commonly mistaken for a supernova in this galaxy. Hvae you compared any images of this...
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Brian Skiff
brian.skiff@...
May 21, 2003 7:57 am
The star on the east side of the galaxy is at position: 12 29 50.1 +08 00 04 (J2000) Harold Corwin has measured this as V=12.50, B-V=0.93 (two nights). I keep...
As it turned out I attended this year's Northeast Astronomy and Telescope Show (http://www.rocklandastronomy.com/neaf.htm) on Saturday, May 17th, and not...
Greetings: I've been working my way backwards through S&T. I've done this to accumulate a notebook on telescope and observing tips and techniques, a notebook...
... Yep, the images with red and blue magnitudes are kept at: http://www.rochesterastronomy.org/snimages/reference/index.html The image of M49 shows the...
Fred, I personally use whatever designation is in the online working version of the Washington Double Star Catalogue. Since SSS is supposedly aimed at ...
... Actually, Bill Gray was kind enough to point me to that file not long after I posted my inquiry. So I have it! Thanks. Christopher Watson The SkyGX Project...
... My apologies for the false alarm. The star is not plotted on the Herald-Bobroff AstroAtlas which does plot stars in that field about 0.5 magnitude fainter...
... The best non-computerized source for checking supernova candidates may still be the Vickers CCD Atlas. Alas, John Vickers no longer distributes it in...
My 4" TV-102 Light Cup seems to be in need of assistance yet again ;-). After seeing Mars' phase, I prosed a question about Jupiter and Saturn's phase....
Tom: really don't know either how many Vickers CCD atlases were made in paper form, but I use mine quite extensively in the field. I have the Real Sky on my...
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AJ Crayon
acrayon@...
May 24, 2003 4:57 am
There's a taken from a camera aboard NASA's Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) spacecraft, currently orbiting the red planet photographed Earth, the moon and Jupiter,...
... I would have expected a picture of this kind of historic nature to appear in a more astronomy related environment. <<< I first saw this stunning image on...
... how to ... easy. If I ... the galaxy, ... adding layers ... brightening towards ... that you see ... at the ... at the ... Thank you very much Mikkel for...
... the 5mm ... Thanks Brian! Wow, my Light Cup has reached a new record (previously was mag 13.3), creeping ever slowly toward that 13.8 mark for a Plutonian...
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AJ Crayon
acrayon@...
May 24, 2003 7:49 pm
Mel, I'm glad to see this image get very extremely wide visibility. Unfortunately it could have used more than just appearing on the internet. Haven't heard...
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amastro@yahoogroups.com
May 26, 2003 2:54 am
Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the amastro group. File : /NC...
Does the bright nebula RCW 171 (= Sh2-58 = LBN 79) contain a trapezium-type multiple star? I've noticed a small cluster of stars centered at (2000.0) 18 31...
How's your pencil and smudging technique? Mastery of the media is really important for capturing those faint fuzzies. I'd recommend some titles, but all the...
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Brian Skiff
brian.skiff@...
May 26, 2003 6:47 pm
... My interpretation of the DSS2 red image is that at best the bright star could be a close pair, although the very slight asymmetry could be due simply to...
Thank you Brian for the legwork on this "trapezium"... I failed to find any early-type stars in the area using the basic SIMBAD search and by consulting the...
One of the best observers in the world, Jere Kahanpää made this simple and straight drawing guide: http://www.astro.helsinki.fi/~kahanpaa/astro/HOWTO.html It...
For those of you interested in astronomical drawings, I've uploaded a sketch -- look for the "M42 Sketch" file... This was my first attempt to draw the nebula...
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AJ Crayon
acrayon@...
May 27, 2003 3:19 am
Jaakko, thanks for the reference to the drawing guide - that seems to recommend many of the techniques I've used over the years. I have two others to share....
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Brian Skiff
brian.skiff@...
May 27, 2003 4:26 am
... There are a couple of O- and early-B stars within ~10', but that doesn't necessarily mean much. If you look at the titles of the papers cited for objects...
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Brian Skiff
brian.skiff@...
May 27, 2003 4:39 am
In case you don't follow the 'vsnet' posts, variable-star observer Peter Williams in Australia notes that the Mira variables SY Sco and V407 Sco, which lie in...
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Brian Skiff
brian.skiff@...
May 27, 2003 7:52 am
Over the last many months Kent Wallace has been sending me notes about errors and IDs for planetary nebulae in SIMBAD, I've been passing these along to the...
