Hi Alvin, It was nice to meet you at Cal Star this last week. Reguarding this object, it is also refered to Merrill's Star and was first published by Paul W....
Kent Wallace
kwwallace@...
Oct 1, 2008 3:33 pm
21702
Alvin, I've tried for Sh 2-80 many times and never thought I saw anything until a week ago. I spent about an hour and a half studying it through various ...
A comprehensive catalogue of clusters and "other things" in M31 has been announced by Nelson Caldwell and gang on astro-ph: <http://arxiv.org/abs/0809.5283> ...
Brian Skiff
bas@...
Oct 1, 2008 7:41 pm
21704
I was fortunate to have a couple of great nights at Steens Mountain in southeastern Oregon earlier this week, and spurred on by the number of negative...
Dave, Sh 2-157a has been on my H-beta list for years. It's a good one. Clear skies, Sue ... From: amastro@yahoogroups.com [mailto:amastro@yahoogroups.com] On...
Thanks Sue for you notes. It helps a lot. I'll try again the next clear moon cycle. I've been using the O-III filter and magnifications of 179, 290 and 306x....
Kent, Thanks for info regarding Merril's star. I heard of it and didn't put the two together. It was great to meet you as well at CalStar. Clear dark skies, ...
I also tried this past weekend from our club's Dark Sky Site. Saturday night's SQM-L average was 21.55. Easy to find the corrrect field with several naked...
This object, discovered last night by Rich Kowalski of the Catalina Sky Survey in Tucson, is the first object to be predicted to enter Earth's atmosphere....
Brian Skiff
bas@...
Oct 6, 2008 8:34 pm
21710
There have been several (now) MPECs published about this object to update astrometry, which is now coming from many European observers (essentially all...
Brian Skiff
bas@...
Oct 6, 2008 9:11 pm
21711
Halo Members, I will keep a close eye on the northern part of sky from the northern part of South Africa which will be around 4am time in SA then, and still...
... wondering ... aperature? ... As I've posted on the CSSP group and other astronomy fora, my friend Tony Donnangelo and I and at least two of our friends...
On the evening of Oct 2/3 I tried for some faint PNs I had on my list. The conditions were not great @ ~ 2" seeing, 7/10 transparency, and 6/10 darkness. Using...
It's not really the purpose of a visual-observing mailing list like Amastro to post images, but this one is worth making an exception. We have been discussing...
Among the interesting things about this image is the large number of galaxies, mostly on the left-hand (east?) side of the image. Obviously where there's not a...
Brian Skiff
bas@...
Oct 21, 2008 6:30 pm
21716
I just received a copy of the "Atlas of the Messier Objects" from Cambridge University Press. Because I longed to own this beautiful work in English, I was...
During my attempt last month the dark nebula stood out quite well even though I couldn't see a trace of Gyulbudaghian's Nebula. I'm eager to give it another...
That's interesting Sue. Q. How does it compare to the KGJ MN&SC? I've owned a few Messier guides down the years, the K&M with the delightfully dire drawings,...
Peter, I have several Messier books including KGJ MN&SC, a very worthwhile addition to my little library. I think the "Atlas of the Messier Objects" makes a ...
Sue or Peter, What do the abbreviations below represent? So far, I see K&M, KGJ, MN, and SC. I have to admit that I don't know what any of those initials...
Heheheh, apologies. K&M = Kramer and Mallas - The Messier Album KJG MN&SC = Kenneth Glyn Jones - Messier's Nebulae & Star Clusters IIRC, from the 60's though...
Hi Sue, Maybe I'm misunderstanding here but, go back to the Amazon link and keep hitting the "surprise me" button. I was looking at several pages with images...
I've looked for the very faint Abell 85 for the last three years under excellent conditions with a 28" f/4 Newtonian without seeing a hint of nebulosity. I...
Hi Jimmy, In checking, I received the following notice: Important Message Amazon.com is pleased to offer customers the ability to view copyrighted material...
Hi Howard, we, that means Ronald Stoyan, Friedrich Lamprecht and I tried the SNR last new moon under the very dark alpine skies (SQM 21,65) with 16". Exactly...
I have two other books in my book-shelf dealing mostly with Messier objects. One is "Atlas of Deep-Sky Splendors" by Hans Vehrenberg. It's a wonderful coffee...
Dear fellow deep sky observers, just a short statement from the main author ;-) Sue helped a lot with the translation of the book, but she is not identical...
I looked for this last night - as I normally do I found the field, identified it using Megastar, then got as much detail as I could before looking at RealSky....
For $25 I will have it recorded in my book at the patent office and send it to your girl friend or wife and name it after her......that's how. Please send...
Gary, ... shown on Megastar right next to it! It looks like a nebula. It was even easier than Abell85. It's located at 00 04 56 / 62 36 03 and it's center is...
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