David, have any lists been published for new PN found from the UKSTU deep H-Alpha survey as I have never managed to find any ? Owen ... Owen Brazell Home...
Greg, There's no way that G1 could be ~2 Mly from M31 and be considered one of its globulars. Distance from the core of M31 is generally given as somewhere ...
... Earl of ... construction of ... plans to ... Owen, Any chance that William Lassell/Marth 's papers and drawings will be featured in that or a similar CD?...
If we can get our hands on them yes we will. Interestingly an unknown number of Lassels drawings were done by his daughter Caroline whom Edward Holden...
Yes it certainly is. I know we have sent some out via John Isles. I talked with Don and it is missing of the US price list. This will be amended on the web...
Hi Owen Concerning the Lord Rosse papers, does the Webb Society's CD have his "Irish" papers? Off the top of my head -- "Transactions of the Royal Society of...
Hello Dave, Read your message concerning the Rosse papers and looked immediately at the copy I have which has a Frontpiece with the title.OBSERVATIONS OF...
It is basically a copy of all the papers he published that were brought together in his collected papers, except for the ones that were just read before the...
Hi Malcolm Yes -- this is exactly what I've been looking for. I envy your library! The "old masters" of visual observing can still teach us a thing or two, in ...
Hi Owen The 'skeleton' map of the Orion Nebula appeared in 1868 with the publication of the "An Account of the Observations on the Great Nebula in Orion, made...
Hello David, Glad to be of assistance. As for my library, I have built it up over many years and with few exceptions it consists of photocopies made of the...
Hi Owen, There was a preliminary catalogue on CD-ROM that was distributed to participants at the IAU Symposium (#209) on Planetary Nebulae in Canberra,...
Hi Folks I thought I might pass along a few notes on the "fliers" in the planetary nebula NGC 6826. Alex Langoussis and I spent a couple of hours observing the...
The appendix to John Herschel's Cape Observations includes a table of the dates of his sweeps (p129). For some of the sweeps a pair of dots ".." is shown in...
'do' = ditto (in this context) 'bis' = again (French) \Brian...
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... Thanks for calculating the V mag, David. I thought this could be done but didn't know how to do it. ... I tried UHC and OIII filters, both blinked and...
I believe the "do" means ditto, or the same sweep number that precedes. As for the symbol ".." I am not positive , but have taken it to mean the same as ditto,...
Hi Dave, a nice image showing the "outskirts" of NGC 6826 can be found at http://www.ing.iac.es/~rcorradi/HALOES/data/IMAGES_PAPER/JPG/n6826ha.jpg regards,...
Hi Jens Thanks for providing the link to this very interesting image... I'm guessing the overexposed "knot" just North of due West in the outer halo (~1 arc...
An interesting paper (preprint) appeared in LANL database (http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/astro-ph/0311010): "A dwarf galaxy remnant in Canis Major: the fossil of an...
Leos Ondra
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Nov 4, 2003 5:50 pm
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I read that abstract last night, and despite the pedigree of the authors, my only thought was "baloney". It will be interesting if they or someone else can...
Brian Skiff
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I just picked up Neil Bone's Mars book to add to my Sheehan's book. While reading the history, something caught by eye about the founding of BAA and ALPO. It...
I haven't read the complete paper yet :-) but when you completely destroy a dwarf galaxy, do you expect one value of radial velocities and proper motions of...
Leos Ondra
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Nov 4, 2003 11:49 pm
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... A lot of this new halo structure is being just because of the nbarrowly-confined ranges in space motion, either proper motions (e.g. the supposed 10-deg...
Brian Skiff
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Nov 5, 2003 1:57 am
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How 'bout a 2-deg diameter planetary? See details at: http://arXiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0311087 Serendipity and the SDSS: Discovery of the Largest Known Planetary...
