Hello James, Here you have a little information: http://www.messier45.com/cgibin/dsdb/dsb.plss=123094215742904&str=PNG221.5%2B46.3 Greetings, Rodolfo. ... I...
I agree this is unlikely to be a visual object since it is very faint on the various digitized sky survey images. The central star at least is well-observed on...
Brian Skiff
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Jan 2, 2009 8:59 pm
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Hi James, I've tried this PN in my 20" f/5.0 reflector without any success. Clear skies! Kent Wallace ... From: James Schultheis To: amastro@yahoogroups.com ...
Kent Wallace
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Jan 3, 2009 12:47 am
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Hi all, ... Steve is right - except one point: There are many(!) errors in the list. I've worked hard in the past on the Herschel catalogues and checked the...
I did a crude sum of all the Tycho-2 stars in the cluster. For this purpose, I considered everything between Dec 57 and 57.3 and RA 02.3 and 02.4 to be in one...
I'm intending to try a similar exercise in a few days. Will report if there's anything useful. \Brian...
Brian Skiff
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Jan 8, 2009 7:54 pm
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Has anyone else pried themselves out of bed much too early to get a look at this comet recently? I was hoping to make my first observation of C/2007 N3 (Lulin)...
Publisher Springer is known for putting perhaps too many amateur astronomy books. In the latest issue of "Physics Today" (Jan 2009), however, is a listing for...
Brian Skiff
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Jan 12, 2009 9:27 pm
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Hi, First, I would like to thank all those who responded to my inquiry of a few months ago here as to when volume 3 of NSOG might be expected. It turns out...
I ordered both books from Willmann-Bell in September and I also find them very good. However, I have not read Crossen and Tirion's book in detail yet....
I'd just like to mention that we have had extensive discussions on Cloudy Nights with Craig Crossen. The new verison of Binocular Astronomy published by...
Hello all, I am back from our monthly trip (16.11.-17.12.2008) in this beautiful country. I spent two weeks near San Pedro de Atacama, few kilometers south...
Since the moon is moving out of the sky and it is the right time in the Southern part of the world, I have a nice MASH PN which would make a good target for...
Kent Wallace
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Jan 13, 2009 5:36 pm
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Ed, Thank you for pointing this out. I have just Googled ("cloudy nights craig crossen second edition") the discussion you speak of, and I stand corrected. I...
Halo Kent, I will surely try to do an observation of this planetary nebula. It is however our rainy season now with a high percentage of cloud-cover, but I ...
Thanks Magda, I hope you get some clear weather soon. We are having a drought in central California at this time with wonderful observing weather. Good luck, ...
Kent Wallace
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Jan 13, 2009 7:15 pm
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Thanks Michal or the notes and photos of your Chile trip. Great shot of Alain Maury in the group---it's looks as though he is still enjoying slumming it...
Brian Skiff
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Jan 13, 2009 8:07 pm
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Brian, thank you for your post. I never was in the Southwest US, but I traveled in Atacama all the highway from La Serena to Arica (near Peruvian borders). I...
... central California at this time with wonderful observing weather. ... cloud-cover, but I ... Hi Kent, I will try for this object in the next few days,...
Thanks Ron, Hope you have good weather there in Queensland. As with many of these MASH PNe you don't know until you try them, but I think you will have a good...
Kent Wallace
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Jan 14, 2009 4:11 pm
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Notice in new SAC DSO database Palomar 1 is listed as an Open Cluster. Wasn't it confirmed in 1996 by a team of astronomers lead by Alfred Rosenberg as a...
Looks as though Palomar 1 is not obviously a globular, but could be an intermediate-age cluster of the sort rare in the Milky Way, and it was possibly acquired...
Brian Skiff
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Jan 14, 2009 5:53 pm
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Michal Augustín writes: During a day the sky near Paranal looked like a uniform celestial-blue wallpaper, I never had this feeling before and after. I was in...
I'd suggest it's mainly the lack of aerosols and the sheer dryness that reduces the amount of scattered light. Here in the polluted northern hemisphere is...
Brian Skiff
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Jan 14, 2009 9:10 pm
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Hi Kent From the "what it is worth department" (and forgive me if this is old news)... PN G285.5-03.3 has suffered something of an identity crisis since its...
... In the Atacama, stars that are setting do not "fade out". Rather they approach the horizon essentially undimmed, and then are occulted by the Earth....
Hi Dave, Thanks for the information on PN G 285.5-03.3. It is new to me. I hope Magda and Ron have good weather so they can give it a try. It will be...
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