Bizarre Night at Eagle Eye by Steve Coe I had a truly weird night at the Eagle Eye site near the little town of Salome, Arizona tonight. First, I got a...
Wolfgang, That is a wonderful biography of Javelle you have there. Thanks for letting me know. I'm sure Dave is going to want to take a look at this. Clear...
Kent Wallace
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Sep 1, 2003 3:02 pm
10699
... From: "Kent Wallace" <kwwallace@...> To: <amastro@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Saturday, August 30, 2003 7:08 PM Subject: Re: [amastro] Who Discovered IC...
Magda Streicher
magda@...
Sep 1, 2003 3:19 pm
10700
Greetings, I did some deepsky observations in Grus lately and love to share it with you. Those of you who can glimpse the star Fomalhaut in Piscis Austrinus...
Magda Streicher
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Sep 1, 2003 3:20 pm
10701
Hi Folks I wonder Javelle left any extended notes for IC 429 (beyond the NGC description of "vS, vF, R, ( inv in f[ollowing] one?)...it appears the "following"...
Hello All, Haven't posted to the list before so by way of an introduction I live in Sydney NSW and generally enjoy deep sky observing from a dark (ish) sky...
My Light Cup and I have always fancied starting the tour of the NGC catalog with NGC 1. For the past two years and disappointment after disappointment trying...
Magda, et al; Grus really stands out in Arizona skies. It moves along the southern horizon in a relatively star poor area, so the stars of Grus are quite ...
I looked through my notes for Grus, most of which are from my second Chile observing trip in 1993. I managed to pick up 38 objects in that constellation. For...
Brian Skiff
brian.skiff@...
Sep 1, 2003 6:37 pm
10706
I'd like a second opinion on this -- The Dorscher & Gurtler catalogue of reflection nebulae puts their object no.7 at RA 1 06.9 Dec +35 20 (B1950.0) -- which...
I had a look at the POSS-I prints and the (three) POSS-II film copies in our library. The appearance of the beta And "nebula" on the POSS-I prints is similar...
Brian Skiff
brian.skiff@...
Sep 1, 2003 11:30 pm
10708
... I don't know if the accents will survive, but here is Javelle's complete original description as published (I photocopied Javelle's discovery lists a ...
... Quickly looking through Megastar charts, I don't see any others. Actually it looks like NGC 7424 is about a tie with IC 1459 for brightness in Grus. I'd...
Hi Steve! Thanks for the notes (and to all who have contributed to the IC 429 discussion) Although Babel Fish choked on the translation, it roughly reads as:...
... It's a tie within errors for total B, but by virtue of its relative redness, IC 1459 wins at V: 9.99 +/- 0.15 versus 10.48 +/- 0.09 for NGC 7424. This is...
Brian Skiff
brian.skiff@...
Sep 2, 2003 4:31 am
10712
Dave, there are several people from France that work at my office and they speak French a lot during the day. I'll see if they can translate, although you...
AJ Crayon
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Sep 2, 2003 4:35 am
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We have native speakers of several languages on the list. \Brian...
Brian Skiff
brian.skiff@...
Sep 2, 2003 4:39 am
10714
Hi Tom Regarding the 'best' object in Lupus -- I suppose an individual's particular interests color the perception of a 'best' object. When I see Lupus above...
... object ... Well, IC4725 in Sagittarius is the same as the open cluster M25 (mag 4.6) but I guess M8 is brighter. What about the star cloud M24? I reckon...
... object ... the ... IC ... being the ... I'd vote for IC4499 being the best DS-object in Apus. There are several foreground stars involved (one of 7.7 mag)...
... I'd actually thought of that, since M24 = IC 4715. M24 is almost certainly brighter than M8 or M25, which must be the brightest otherwise, so perhaps the...
Brian Skiff
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Sep 2, 2003 7:03 am
10718
... Along with the other possibilities, I notice all (except IC 1459) are IC2 objects. \Brian...
Brian Skiff
brian.skiff@...
Sep 2, 2003 7:13 am
10719
... almost ... otherwise, ... and ... attached. ... Yes, and I had forgot IC2391 (omikron Velorum cluster) whose magnitude is 2.6. Certainly the brightest...
... From: "Steve Coe" <stevecoe@...> To: <amastro@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Monday, September 01, 2003 8:28 PM Subject: Re: [amastro] Discover the Crane ...
Magda Streicher
magda@...
Sep 2, 2003 12:14 pm
10721
... From: "Brian Skiff" <brian.skiff@...> To: <amastro@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Monday, September 01, 2003 8:33 PM Subject: Re: [amastro] Discover the...
Magda Streicher
magda@...
Sep 2, 2003 12:14 pm
10722
Seeing Deimos and Phobos for the first time was a priority for me at this opposition of Mars, but I had not gotten around to doing the necessary preparations...
Hi All, I think Carina may be leading the race at having it's brightest deep sky object in the IC catalog: IC 2602 (the Theta Carinae cluster is mag 1.6), I...
I'd vote for IC4499 being the best DS-object in Apus. There are several foreground stars involved (one of 7.7 mag) and reminiscent of a face-on galaxy. It is...
If I were doing it again, I would try old-fashioned rough flat black hockey-stick tape for the occulting bar. Don't think that I ever admitted to anybody about...
