Greetings, Please help me out I am In need of the number or RA: and Dec: of the ring galaxy named "Hoag's Object". There is a very small faint second ring...
Magda Streicher
magda@...
Feb 2, 2004 9:35 am
11708
Hoag's object is at: 15 17 14.40 +21 35 07.8 (J2000, 2MASS) To find out "everything" about the galaxy (or any galaxy), go to NED: ...
Brian Skiff
brian.skiff@...
Feb 2, 2004 10:01 am
11709
... http://www.messier45.com/cgi-bin/dsdb/dsb.pl?session=107572889435490&str=hoag% 27s+object (As you can see it's easy to search for the name of the object.) ...
... From: "Mikkel Steine" <mikkel@...> To: <amastro@yahoogroups.com>; "Magda Streicher" <magda@...> Sent: Monday, February 02, 2004 11:51 AM ...
Magda Streicher
magda@...
Feb 2, 2004 4:18 pm
11711
... From: "Brian Skiff" <brian.skiff@...> To: <amastro@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Monday, February 02, 2004 11:57 AM Subject: Re: [amastro] Galaxy nr. and...
Magda Streicher
magda@...
Feb 2, 2004 5:23 pm
11712
... The [OIII] filter of course will not be useful for the galaxy since there is no significant emission. On Gomez' Hamburger, my understanding is that it is a...
Brian Skiff
brian.skiff@...
Feb 2, 2004 8:47 pm
11713
I saw Gomez' Hamburger in 2002 with a 20" f/5 scope with a 12mm Nagler at the Twin Lakes Star Party. It wasn't an conspicuous object (pretty small, flat),...
Alan Goldstein
deepskyspy@...
Feb 3, 2004 12:24 am
11714
Hi Magda, I observed Gomez' Hamburger back in 1999 at the Texas Star party with a 16-inch f/5. The seeing wasn't all that great at the time, but the best...
Magda, My observing notes for Hoag's Object and Gomez' Hamburger are below. In a 16" Gomez' Hamburger should be easy enough but I think Hoag's Object will be...
... The RC3 shows V-sub-T = 15.2, which is nevertheless a rather faint galaxy. \Brian...
Brian Skiff
brian.skiff@...
Feb 3, 2004 5:13 am
11717
... galaxy. The study of Hoag's Object by Schweizer et al. (1987ApJ...320..454S) quote a V mag for the core of 15.8 (without the K-correction) and a B-V for...
Magda: Here is the link to the article I wrote on Gomez' Hamburger. The J2000 position is 18 hours 9 minutes 13.3 seconds - 32 degrees declination 10 minutes...
Where is it located, and what's its designation (NGC, UGC, or whatever)? Howard K ... __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder -...
Does anyone know the current magnitude of the beatiful carbon variable star R Lepoirs, and it's curve over the next year? I looked at it three nights ago and...
http://www.astrouw.edu.pl/~gp/asas/asas3_catalog.html ...which shows standard V-band photometry from a robotic system that operates at Las Campanas in Chile....
Brian Skiff
brian.skiff@...
Feb 4, 2004 7:14 pm
11724
The ASAS-3 machine is back, and shows a very nice smooth lightcurve, just past maximum (at about V=7.6) as the AAVSO estimates indicated. \Brian...
Brian Skiff
brian.skiff@...
Feb 4, 2004 7:47 pm
11725
Hi all, Thanks a lot for all the contributions. Michael I loved your visual descriptions, and Brian for valuable input. In ideal situations I could hold up...
Magda Streicher
magda@...
Feb 5, 2004 11:34 am
11726
... From: "Barbara Wilson" <bwilson2@...> To: <amastro@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2004 2:34 PM Subject: Re: [amastro] Galaxy nr....
Magda Streicher
magda@...
Feb 5, 2004 12:01 pm
11727
Hi group! I got a question in a Finnish astronomy discussion group about the visibility of the MilkyWay with naked eyes during the Full moon and twilight. I...
My experience has been that the visibility varies considerably depending on the amount of scattered light, mainly from low-level aerosols. On a night like...
Brian Skiff
brian.skiff@...
Feb 6, 2004 8:28 am
11729
I didn't think about that the Moon has just about the maximum phase (99.9%) right now! Can you step out and glimpse the Milky Way? :-) /Timo ... Way) ... is ...
... I can, but there is no Milky Way to see: the winter section is too far west, and the summer section has not risen yet! You can see Perseus and Auriga from...
Brian Skiff
brian.skiff@...
Feb 6, 2004 9:14 am
11735
Folks, Re: [amastro] Meteoritos en Perú Please do not use Amastro to discuss this event, whatever it was. Thanks Tom List Owner...
... Way) ... is ... northern ... I've seen the northern Milky Way on a full Moon night from the same location. Also, I've seen M44 naked eye with a full Moon...
'Amastro' member Jay "The Kid" McNeil noticed recently that some images of the region of M78 contained a new nebula. An IAU Circular has been published with...
Brian Skiff
brian.skiff@...
Feb 10, 2004 5:37 am
11738
Here is an interesting comparison of images of the new nebula. Mike Haldeman took this image on November 26, 2003 http://www.mrh.org/20031126-03.html ...very...
The nebula shows up well in the SEDS image of M78 at: http://www.seds.org/messier/m/m078.html Click on it to enlarge> Clear skies, Sue ... From: "Brian Skiff"...
