Very interesting object! I'll hopefully be able to try it in August.
Jeff Kanipe devotes a couple of pages to this little nebula in the Annals of the Deep Sky vol. 8 from page 132: "Interlude: A...
The 3-volume atlas was available in digital format (PDF) on DVD at one time by the publisher. This thread on CloudyNights for 2022 has more information and links. Owen Brazell may have something to...
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Filter Ha Baader Planetarium
ZWO ASI 294MM
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22/07/2024 23:34 UT
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Montecatini Terme - Toscana - Italia
I also took a 15 minute photo with the...
I don't have a complete index from her articles, but entered this object in my database of observed and 'planning to observe' DSOs at that time or perhaps earlier if I ran across it in a journal...
Thanks Steve and Carlo! Also Steve for the GN designation. Using that for a Google search did produce some results. As I understand it, the GN 20.43.9 designation is only mentioned in a 1980's era...
Nice choice for OOTW! This nebula is also in Neckel and Vehrenberg's Atlas of Galactic Nebulae as GN 20.43.9 (though SIMBAD doesn't include the alias).
I haven't looked for it, but Sue French...
Now, I've never really thought of Cygnus as a summer constellation. Even when the constellation's Alpha star features prominently in the so-called "Summer Triangle" we all have read about ad nauseum...
Akarsh enhanced a PanStarrs g band Image that show the knot that I have been seeing over the last several nights. Last night I tried a Sloan G filter and it made the knot easier to see. It is...
Thanks Scott and Steve for your response. You showed, that this thing is doable, even from the US.
I'm aware of the southern declination but was hoping that the forum consist also from observer...
I have a single observation of the pre-PN Cotton Candy nebula with my 18" Starmaster back in July 2010. The seeing conditions probably weren't great from +41° latitude (Golden State Star Party), and...
Nice pick, Uwe! But at a declination of -32.5, you aren't going to get many takers since it's 6.5* farther south than my recent OotW! However, it's only 0.1-magnitude fainter than PDS 144N, so at...
Congratulations on perhaps being the first to nab this one and see some structure!
The discovery paper ("Dracula's Chivito: Discovery of a Large Edge-on Protoplanetary Disk with Pan-STARRS") lists...
Thanks for your report, Jimi. Glad to hear that you saw some size to it. I saw it in early February shortly after the paper on it was published. It was so low in the sky that I was forced to use my...
Dracula’s Chivito
IRAS 23077+6707
RA 23 09 43
DEC +67 23 40
Type Protoplanetary Disk
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Early this morning just before the start of astronomical twilight I observed the...
Yeah, no problem. Like I said, I only learned the distinction between the two when I was writing about PDS 144N. And that's coming from someone who has written about proplyds!
I just figure out, that I never visited this impressive pair wit larger aperture. It must be an stunning view through your new 28" Akarsh. Congrats to the new telescope, the observation and the grand...
Akarsh, I hate to be a stickler since I only just learned this "rule" myself, but you can't technically call it a "proplyd" The reason being the term "proplyd" was coined by Robert O'Dell in 1993....
It was very easy to track down the pair at 200x (13mm Ethos), as they sit inside a triangle formed by a mag 7.0 star 18' W (HD 141063), a mag 6.6 star 24' SE, and a mag 4.6 star (1 Sco) 28' NE. At...
I observed this pair in November 2015 from a not very dark location using my 20" dob:
At 151x both NGC 7253A and B already are visible as a thin streak of light. This is also the case at 320x. At...
Great pick, Akarsh!
Two observations in my log for this pair.
First in September 2013 from the French Ardennes in my 12" SCT. I discerned both galaxies but did not observe much detail. 179x /...
With my 16" at 362x I wrote:
Nice, but faint duo. NGC 7253A is brightest and is best seen with AV as a stretched galaxy with some central brightening. Almost perpendicular to it is NGC 7253B and...
I just wanted to update that Steve, Jimi and I looked at this through Steve's 24" at the Golden State Star Party last week. This was the opening new log entry for me at the star party. I logged "A...
Back in 2009 with a 20" and 313x:"NGC-7253 showed a nice elongation and one of an interacting pair with NGC-7253B. 7253B with steady looking, I could see it as a much fainter glow. Almost makes a "V"...