Doug Snyder asked about the origin of the PGC designation. The PGC/LEDA catalogue is a compilation catalogue, so nearly always the galaxy appears some other...
Brian Skiff
brian.skiff@...
Dec 1, 2002 8:42 pm
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... PGC 12157 was picked up in the original Palomar Sky Survey and listed in the three major catalogues which were based on the POSS: CGCG (540-073), UGC ...
Brian and Steve are certainly correct in their statements - after chasing an object name for the early part of this adventure, I did revert to using positions...
... Odd, since an Atmospheric Sciences Reasearch Center was located here until recently. Regardless, my area is much the same as Albany, except that Albany is...
Jeffrey, Your horizon at home would allow declinations of +44º and lower to crest your horizon, so you probably only get decent views of objects at about...
Hi all, I signed up for this list some time ago, but I think this is my first posting. Greetings to all. I'm quite comfortably seated as an astro- tourist and...
Greetings: What are the criteria by which those famous "they" (AL folks) judge the notes? Do you need a drawing of each object? Are DSC-aided observations...
In a message dated 12/2/02 10:11:30 AM Pacific Standard Time, ... Yes. Richard Navarrete [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
richardn22@...
Dec 2, 2002 6:26 pm
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Hi Albert, Just back from Thanksgiving vacation... Actually, the selection process for choosing the objects on the Herschel II list was more thoughtful and...
Banich, Howard
howard.banich@...
Dec 2, 2002 6:39 pm
9265
... I wondered about that myself and so observed this area again on Saturday night following my post. I have seen the fogging around stars from atmospheric...
Chuck Dethloff
telmor@...
Dec 2, 2002 6:40 pm
9266
... No. ... DSC observations are acceptable for the H-II program according to my copy of the handbook. You merely get a slightly different (device-aided,...
Chuck Dethloff
telmor@...
Dec 2, 2002 6:41 pm
9267
Hi Richard, Herschel II observations that were aided with DSC's are not rejected but the certificate number is given the suffix DA for "Device-Aided"....
Banich, Howard
howard.banich@...
Dec 2, 2002 6:50 pm
9268
... To be clear, I meant Alnilam not Alnitak. Chuck Dethloff...
Chuck Dethloff
telmor@...
Dec 2, 2002 6:54 pm
9269
Hi Fred, The AL folks don't judge submitted HII notes, it's the two people who put the program together (Candace Pratt and Carole Huston of the RCA) who check ...
Banich, Howard
howard.banich@...
Dec 2, 2002 6:55 pm
9270
Here is a compendium of correspondence in re NGC 1990 from the last time we hashed through this four years ago (pre-amastro). The main evidence on its...
Brian Skiff
brian.skiff@...
Dec 2, 2002 7:26 pm
9271
Folks who have seen NGC 1990 are in good company, as can be read in the original 'discovery' observations available at the NGC/IC Web site. ... Because in...
Brian Skiff
brian.skiff@...
Dec 2, 2002 7:28 pm
9272
... Hi Chuck, I have NGC 1990 in my observing notes as an observed object. There certainly was skepticism when I mentioned the observation others in my ...
Mark Wagner
mgw@...
Dec 2, 2002 7:31 pm
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... Well, this subject went up for discussion a couple of years ago and it caused quite a stir for a while. However, with some study of images taken which...
David Knisely
KA0CZC@...
Dec 2, 2002 7:39 pm
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... Brian, from way down here I can barely see you up on top of that horse of yours. Is the sky noticeably darker up there? ;-) A much more appropriate answer...
What becomes of the drawings and notes people submit? Shame if they are not available to the public. Of course I suppose some unscrupulous person could use...
glow some have suggested could ... was not ... south. I ... there ... to the ... what is the faint irregular patch to the ... Mark, I'm glad you stood by...
... My notes from November 3 of this year regarding this object agree with your assessment that the field does not match the description in the handbook. That...
Chuck Dethloff
telmor@...
Dec 2, 2002 11:39 pm
9278
I'm with Greg on this one. I think my admittedly amateurish efforts, so far, to verify that what I am plotting in SkyGX is really there, and depicts the object...
... Again this is one that Harold Corwin has dealt with; see the comments at the NGC/IC site, near the bottom of: ...
Brian Skiff
brian.skiff@...
Dec 3, 2002 12:42 am
9280
... Personally I use about 80% of the time creating my web site on correcting and importing data. It's a lot of work. I've calculated that if I were to correct...
At 11:22 AM 12/3/2002 +0100, you wrote: The irony of this whole discussion is that the software which spawned it in fact had the correct information for NGC...
... I was rather looking for something orchestrated by the IAU or something. The problem is that we'll never get every professional, amateur and all major and ...
... There already are several projects underway to accumulate and correct data. Isn't that what SIMBAD and NED are about? But there are basic differences in...
