How about Cartes du Ciel? It does comets, and it's a free download. Clear skies, Sue ... From: "gnorton" <tim71pos@...> To: <amastro@yahoogroups.com>...
Greg, In my own experience, anything that lowers contrast, will hamper color saturation - i.e. poor collimation, atmospheric extinction, a bright sky, dirty ...
Well the thread leaves me more puzzled than when I began it. On small Newts: It is true that 4" class Newts tend to be manufactured as throwaways and that to...
I think a lot of the color perception have as much to do with image size, brightness, and contrast as much as with specific optics. That's all tied up in the...
Brian Skiff
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Dec 1, 2004 8:08 pm
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Hi all, does anyone know, who (and when) created the name "California nebula" for NGC 1499, the large HII region in Perseus? Be aware, that I already know the...
Steinicke-Streifenede...
Dec 2, 2004 8:34 am
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Hi Wolfgang, The Sky & Telescope cumulative index has the California Nebula = NGC 1499 mentioned in the May 1945 issue on pages 2 and 24. Unfornately I don't...
Kent Wallace
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Dec 2, 2004 4:06 pm
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Wofgang, Thinking that sounded like a Leland Copeland invention, I searched my Sky & Telescope index. The earliest hit under "California Nebula" was May 1945,...
Hi Ronald I don't like to post "non-answers" to this forum but... For what it is worth, I checked the references to NGC 1499 in the Cederblad catalogue and...
... What are the details of the discovery that you know? There is no clue from the name or place? ... Sheehan, William. The Immortal Fire Within: the life...
I wonder if anyone has observed these interesting Fornax globulars. I viewed them in my 10" telescope Wednesday night (12/2/04), and all were quite difficult....
Those Luginbuhl & Skiff guys saw NGC 1049 and cluster 5 = ESO 356-SC08 in a 5-inch refractor at USNO-Flagstaff in 1984. In Chile in 1993 with my 6-inch...
Brian Skiff
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Dec 3, 2004 7:41 pm
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Kent, At 33 deg S latitude and LM 6.5 skies, with my 8" SCT at 130x: Fornax 3 (NGC 1049) - small, faint haze with a bright stellar nucleus. Fornax 5 - small,...
Hi, Folks The discovery of 2 new planetary nebulae was announced by Edward Pickering in 1883 (1883AN...105...335c) -- one them being the object that would...
... In this case, does it really change anything? I don't think anyone is keeping track unless it is in the NGC/IC files. FWIW, I can ask about getting the ID...
Brian Skiff
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Dec 4, 2004 6:33 am
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In Jan '03 from Fremont Peak, on a night with moderate seeing, 3/5, but decent transparency, 6.3 LM, I caught up with the Fornax dwarf and 1049. Used Jay...
Hi, Folks Brian wrote: In this case, does it really change anything? No, I guess not. It just struck me that the twists and turns of the "discovery" process...
... Here's another set of observations of Fornax-2, 4 and 5 from Northern California. BTW, Fornax-2 and Fornax-5 made their way into the PGC, so it's very...
Hi All Here is my observations of the Fornax Galaxy and its Globulars. I was able to locate the galaxy through my 20" scope (Hector) at 100x. It appeared as a...
Hello, people, Just kidding about the "faint." Trying to be alamode. But a number of years ago I saw one of the great sights in astronomy, totally unheralded...
Hi All, Jupiter and M22 were distant from 34', 27 October 1984. Saturn and M22 were separated by 1.16 deg the 14 october 1989. The dates are easy to find with...
A account by Barnard on his finding of this nebulae can be found in the AP Journal in 1895. Cut and paste the following link into your browser to see the PDF ...
Here iam trying to fix the link... sorry. http://adsbit.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-iarticle_query 1895ApJ.....2..350B you need all the above and ther should be...
Hello Paul and others, PG> http://adsbit.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-iarticle_query PG> 1895ApJ.....2..350B Thanks for your comments. As I wrote already, the...
Steinicke-Streifenede...
Dec 7, 2004 1:40 pm
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Hi Jan, This statement that you found is a bit misleading. One has to distinguish between the receptor cell (rod or cone), which contains stacked membrane...
forgive my ignorance... I have always used Megastar and now augment that with TheSky V6 for finding dim objects... but it is not uncommon for me to see...
Hi Gary, I recommend VizieR at http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/ You can also use Simbad or Aladin at the same site. Another site is the NASA/IPAC Extragalactic...
I guess I will have to concentrate on the M57 shot and the like... I have seen stars that are on RealSky but not on MS5 or TheSky - no doubt they are 16.5 or...
I'll second the suggestion to use SIMBAD (bibliographic database) and VizieR (catalogue query utility), but do be aware that some interpretation is required....
Brian Skiff
brian.skiff@...
Dec 11, 2004 12:05 am
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Brian Skiff is too humble to push his own product but Luginbuhl and Skiff's Deep Sky Observer's catalog is a valuable resource which has, among other things,...
