Hi Greg, I recall the "Witch's Broom" nickname being first being applied to the central portion of the Veil Nebula which is also known as "Pickering's Wedge"....
Kent Wallace
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Jan 1, 2007 4:55 pm
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It's easier to remember "witch's broom" than to remember 6960 for that side of the Veil, I think, for most people. There are more perplexing name mysteries....
... According to Burnham's: 'ETA [Ursae Majoris]: name - BENETNASCH, sometimes called ALKAID; both names derived from the Arabic *Ka'id Banat al Na'ash*, "The...
Bruce McCurdy wrote: Lots of alternate names for stars, e.g. Gemma/Alphecca; Izar/Mirak/Pulcherrima.... ********* I think the King of multi-named stars has got...
Just to be ridiculous: Polaris is shown with 35 aliases in SIMBAD, only one of which overlaps with Paul's list---an obvious missing one is "North Star". Only...
Brian Skiff
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Jan 2, 2007 6:50 pm
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... I'm still hoping someone can answer these questions more definitively. In particular, is this a common names used um... commonly by deep sky observers, or...
Personally, whenever I've seen this name used for this portion of the Veil, (yes I know a common name also, but one actually used regularly) it has always been...
I must fess up to using the nicknames "Witch's Broom" for NGC 6960 and "The Waterfall" for NGC 6992/5 in an article I wrote in the September issue Astronomy...
I've spent some time in the archives and seen reports of visually catching G and H in the 82" in Texas and also the 60" at Mt Wilson, but I was wondering if...
Greg, ... There was a discussion entitled "Resolving "H" component in Orion" on this list back in 2003, during which I posted my "successful" observation of ...
Hi Mike, Where did you find the magnitudes and separation of the two components of H? Jerry ... A Guide to Astrophotography with Digital SLR Cameras ...
Hi Jerry, ... The magnitudes are from David Frew (see amastro post #9802) and were derived by him from an AAT image taken by David Malin. The separation and PA...
Since my old 2003 post was left unanswrered though I am still interested in a reply, I am posting my original question again: Does anyone knows about an...
Leos Ondra
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Jan 3, 2007 1:10 pm
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I believe there were reports of a strong polarization effect when viewing the egg nebula. Owen ... interested ... object is ... other...
I think we name these objects for the same reason that we don't refer to each other by our social security numbers. And some things just look like what they...
... I haven't seen either of them, but I seem to recall that someone had reported on SAA (JRF, maybe?) having seen them in a 16-inch. Strange, since Harvey is...
The original observations of the Egg Nebula in the early 70s involved discovery of its strong polarization made visually with a 30cm telescope. There is a Sky...
Brian Skiff
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Jan 3, 2007 6:42 pm
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Brian -- ... f4.1 16-inch w/an I3 Piece[TM] and Paracorr -- and three other close pairs that are easier which no one even mentions. I observe near the beach in...
FYI, the S&T article was in the January 1975 issue, pages 21-23. Kent ... From: Brian Skiff To: amastro@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2007 10:37...
Kent Wallace
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Jan 3, 2007 7:27 pm
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... Thanks for the citation. I looked at this article the last time the Egg Nebula was discussed on this list, and note that it gives a good description of...
Brian Skiff
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Jan 3, 2007 7:52 pm
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Thanks to all for info about the Egg nebula and the reference. Does exist also an amateur (visual, ccd,...) observation of polarization in the Crab nebula? ...
Leos Ondra
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Jan 3, 2007 7:58 pm
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... Greg, I observed G with my 24" Dob in the early morning hours of October 30th, 2005 near Arizona Sky Village. It was during a 20 minute stretch of ...
15480 Empire Rd. Benson, AZ 85602 hm ph: 520-586-2244 That's why the IAU has several naming commissions: to keep the nomenclature more or less straight and...
On a night of exceptional transparency and seeing, I managed to view G and H (using averted vision) in my 12.5". The night sky brightness at the time was...
Greg, At the Winter Star Party one year, two people showed me the H pair. One was Jim Carroll with his 18-inch NGT, the other was someone I didn't know with a...
Does an I3 count as a visual ID? I wouldn't think so, not in the normal sense (the output can be fed to a computer for imaging, if I recall). But the...
Hi, I made a drawing of the Egg Nebula with and without polarizing filter. It is quite a stunning effect, at least if you are interested in the physics behind....
Zodiacal light is polarized, up to 20%. (F.E. Roach and Janet Gordon. The Light of the Night Sky. 1973.). Koennen, 'Polarized Light in Nature', writes that the...
Hi all, Thanks Dave Healy's generous offer, several of us (my wife Jennifer, Gary Myers, and me) had the opportunity to observe using the 61" telescope at...
