Thanks for your trouble Brian. The sites you mention are new to me except for Aladin which is not. The 6x5 degree image of the LMC is finished. It will be...
Glad to help. All of these on-line services of course are really rigged for small fields, a few arcminutes. If you want to make mosaics of large patches of...
Brian Skiff
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Mar 1, 2005 6:47 pm
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Hello... I asked this once before but did not quite get the answer I was looking for... maybe it does not exist. While viewing with the 30" I would like to see...
Although the star catalogues exist for the entire sky down to mag. 20 or fainter, the problem is that there is no reliable photometry except in places where...
Brian Skiff
brian.skiff@...
Mar 1, 2005 7:19 pm
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Had a pretty good night last night... 11 new objects in about 90 minutes including 6 new Abell PN, one HGC, and 2 AGC's. Among them I was able to see both the...
... If these are the 17.-something magnitude galaxies you mentioned previously, note that the magnitudes you mention are blue-light figures. The Hickson...
Brian Skiff
brian.skiff@...
Mar 1, 2005 7:45 pm
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... And another dream got smashed to smithereens... thanks for the analysis Brian! Clear skies! Wouter van Reeven -- Black holes are where God is dividing by...
I mentioned, but did not give the source of the ASAS-3 stuff. The query page is at: http://www.astrouw.edu.pl/~gp/asas/asas3_catalog.html This is mainly a...
Brian Skiff
brian.skiff@...
Mar 1, 2005 8:28 pm
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... They are indeed. VoE. ... But, to be clear, in the case of something like SkyView and the DSS2 imagery (for example), it matters not what the size of YOUR...
Yeah - what he said! actually then I wonder why they have been reported as "difficult" by others in a previous thread. g. ... mentioned ... 16.5; ... 16.2 ... ...
I went to Blackfoot last night and the seeing was SPECTACULAR in 12.5" F/6 newt. Transparency good, snow on ground, but NO Aurora I used 500x more than my...
... I observed this one tonight with my NexStar 9.25 SCT, and I noted only a slight color difference. The seeing was only about an arc second or so on...
David Knisely
KA0CZC@...
Mar 2, 2005 7:03 am
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This is one of the sky's great equal-magnitude binaries. I wondered if anybody has attempted to split it this season. Due to its great eccentricity, it...
Occultation of Antares tonight (mostly before dawn) for all of North America except for far northwest BC and Alaska. The companion leads the reapparance on the...
Alister
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Mar 2, 2005 4:59 pm
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Ever since I read a description in Burnham's Celestial Handbook 25 years ago of how Antares's green companion appears five seconds before the orange giant I...
The desert southwest U.S. has been experiencing a wetter than normal winter. The clouds have been so pervasive, I wonder if I'm caught in an episode of the...
Alan Do you have an OIII or UHC (or other deep sky filter)? Try them on Antaries - you may get a glimpse of the companion if the seeing is favourable. Does...
Hi Alan & all, Great report Alan. I've been waiting on one of these events for a very long time too -- I'm envious!! Les Dalrymple Sydney, Australia ... From:...
I was not sure that skies would be clear last night in northwestern Oregon. However, by 9pm local time skies at our rural property were mostly clear and the...
Thanks Alan, for your positive report. I observed an occultation of Antares on February 4th this year. The disappearance occurred before Antares had risen,...
Here's the link to my sketch and notes on Sharpless 2-240 (Simeis 147): http://members.aol.com/billferris/sh2240.html And, here are links to the notes and...
I have tremendous respect for those that have seen Abell PN in midland scope sizes (12" - 16"). I hunted (well the ServoCAT did) 7 more last night... saw all...
... Here is my report from November 27th 2000 using a 12.5" Starmaster. "I have made S147 a whimsical stop on many observing sessions with absolutely no luck...
Hi All, In preparation for a trip down under next month, I was wandering around PsA, in Megastar, in Chart mode, with Realsky engaged. This means I was seeing...
Hi Bill An interesting observation of the Simeis SNR. I do have a couple of questions... I don't see any mention of the use of any nebula filters. Was your ...
I'll second Dave R's suggestion to be careful of mistaking patchy Milky Way background with nebulosity. ... Can't say just where he was looking, but I'd be...
Brian Skiff
brian.skiff@...
Mar 5, 2005 6:45 am
14900
Hi Guy, Thanks for sharing your experience observing this challenging target. I'll definitely be revisiting that area of the sky and have made a note to spend...
Hi Dave, Thanks for taking the time to comment on my observation and for sharing your thoughts on the various challenges involved in detecting this extremely...
