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17184 Joe Bergeron
realduskwalker Send Email
Jan 1, 2006
2:37 pm
... Thanks for quoting this post in its entirety. I missed it the first time and enjoyed reading it with your help. I also received Sue's (no relation) book as...
17185 Kenneth Drake
oortdrako Send Email
Jan 1, 2006
4:53 pm
I've made a hobby for myself of observing very young and very old thin crescent moons for about 15 years. This last month of the year has blessed us with two ...
17186 Mike Kerr
mkerrau Send Email
Jan 2, 2006
2:22 am
On 10 Dec 2005 I posted my observations of three small galaxies near NGC 45. Sue French asked if I had tried for any of the of the other nearby Mitchell...
17187 starsearcheffort3
starsearchef... Send Email
Jan 2, 2006
4:32 pm
... I also received Sue's book as a gift, as a result of answering my daughter's inquiry as to what book I might like to receive for the holidays. I am very...
17188 Alan Whitman
alandwhitman Send Email
Jan 3, 2006
4:08 am
Hello All, Does anyone know the designations of the two emission nebulae at the northern end of Barnard's Galaxy, NGC 6822? See the black&white photo on page...
17189 Mike Kerr
mkerrau Send Email
Jan 3, 2006
4:39 am
Alan, ... The two nebulae at the N end are Hubble X (H X) to the E and Hubble V (H V) to the W. The group of three fainter nebulae are H I, H II and H III. ...
17190 Steve Gottlieb
steven_gottlieb Send Email
Jan 3, 2006
5:43 am
As far as designations, IC 1308 = Hubble X was discovered by Frank Leavenworth with a 26-inch refractor (Publications of the Leander- McCormick Observatory,...
17191 James Anderson
maniacal_eng Send Email
Jan 3, 2006
6:05 am
MagaStar 5 sites the folling: (I haven't taken the time to expand the search. But this is a starter.) (Galaxy) NGC6822, IC4895, MCG -2-50-6, DDO 209, IRAS...
17192 Paul Rodman
pjrodman Send Email
Jan 3, 2006
4:44 pm
This might be of interest: <http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4570730.stm> Paul Rodman...
17193 Kent Wallace
kwwallace@... Send Email
Jan 3, 2006
5:14 pm
Hi Alan, There is a nice writeup called "Barnard&#39;s Galaxy: A Century of Observing" by Rich Jakiel at http://www.angelfire.com/id/jsredshift/barnard.htm which...
17194 Kent Wallace
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Jan 3, 2006
7:12 pm
I observed this object on April 14th 2005 while in Western Australia and figured this is a good time to post it since it is in Canis Major. Sa 2-4 = PK...
17195 Sue French
susancfrench Send Email
Jan 3, 2006
7:50 pm
Okay, P Cygni now added to the article notebook. You folks are going to end up supplying me with all my material :) Clear skies, Sue ... From:...
17196 Owen Brazell
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Jan 3, 2006
8:13 pm
AP ? Owen ... Owen Brazell Editor Webb DSO www.webbsociety.freeserve.co.uk owen@......
17197 Brian Skiff
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Jan 3, 2006
9:49 pm
I'm pretty sure Kent's shorthand for the Aladin "previewer&quot; is AP. \Brian...
17198 Kent Wallace
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Jan 3, 2006
11:07 pm
Hi Owen, AP is Aladin Previewer chart that you can get from the SIMBAD page for that object. I find them really useful. Sorry for the confussion. Kent ... ...
17199 Alan Whitman
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Jan 4, 2006
1:40 am
Thanks Mike, Steve, Jim, and Kent for your help. Great observations Mike. If anyone wants to view these nebulae, see David Malin's image with the ...
17200 davejm28 Send Email Jan 4, 2006
3:25 pm
It was by no means a good year weatherwise in the south central Pennsylvania area (the 2005 Martian apparition was particularly disappointing) but I did make a...
17201 davejm28 Send Email Jan 4, 2006
3:40 pm
... from ... skies ... rather ... Quasar, ... White ... a ... Obsession ... the ... lot ... Oops, I should have included Stellafane in there too! Dave Mitsky...
17202 starsearcheffort3
starsearchef... Send Email
Jan 4, 2006
11:46 pm
... going to end ... Sue, Thank you. You are very gracious. We all appreciate your fine work. Clear skies, Bill Meyers...
17203 Mikkel Steine
mikkelsteine Send Email
Jan 6, 2006
8:37 am
Hi Alan, everyone else, I've prepared this map of the galaxy (it's a straight dump of the map from the new Deep Sky Browser). There are two, one with USNO A2.0...
17204 Mikkel Steine
mikkelsteine Send Email
Jan 6, 2006
8:40 am
Hi again, I forgot to mention that the images are approx. 230kB in size and all the objects in the map can be found in this list (I hope! :)) ...
17205 Mikkel Steine
mikkelsteine Send Email
Jan 6, 2006
9:37 am
Hi Alister, ... Ah, yes, the King clusters! My favourite is probably King 9. Are we quite certain this is not a globular cluster? ...
17206 Brian Skiff
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Jan 6, 2006
9:54 am
... No. There is only the uncalibrated V, V-I color-magnitude diagram from Randy Phelps. However, it is greatly contaminated by field stars, though there is...
17207 John Tatarchuk
tatarjj Send Email
Jan 7, 2006
11:34 pm
Hey guys! This group was suggested to me by another observer who saw my report of Sh2-264 I put on some internet astronomy forums. Searching through the...
17208 mario lessard
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Jan 8, 2006
2:25 am
Hi all... ...a friend of mine observed these two stars in Taurus and found that they are not mentioned in any of the "usuals" catalog of double stars...i find...
17209 Brian Skiff
bas@... Send Email
Jan 8, 2006
2:42 am
Probably the reason the pair is not included in ordinary double-star catalogues is because they are so far apart, about 85". At mag 8.5 or so, the usual limit...
17210 Fred Kiesche
godel2escher... Send Email
Jan 8, 2006
3:38 pm
Greetings: I'm waaaayyyy behind in my e-mail, so I apologize if this has been gone over already. "I am hoping that Chuck Wood's columns will be next." Such a...
17211 Sue French
susancfrench Send Email
Jan 8, 2006
4:00 pm
John, I've looked at Sh2-264 with my 105mm scope. My notes are unusually terse and merely say that it was very large and faintly visible with an OIII filter...
17212 John Tatarchuk
tatarjj Send Email
Jan 8, 2006
7:59 pm
Hmm... while I can definately say that the view of this nebula using the OIII was far better than unfiltered, but H-beta far and away seemed to provide the...
17213 Sue French
susancfrench Send Email
Jan 9, 2006
1:49 am
John, I'll give an H-beta a try sometime on the scope. I have never been able to hold a filter up to my eye and see anything but reflections. Clear skies,...
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