NGC 507 and friends

[RolandosCY]

The area around NGC 507 is a wonderful playground for galaxy hunters. I could recall two old S&T articles (one by Steve Gottlieb) mentioning the many galaxies in this area, so I decided to check the area out. My usual practice is to have a "first look" in the area, and then read about it, in the second attempt searching for obscure / difficult targets that may lie hidden... In the case of this area there were many galaxies! Literally, wherever I pointed the scope I could pick up some galaxies. I chose the field that seemed most interesting and went ahead to sketch. At home, I identified the galaxies I had fished out. The articles and Megastar indicate that I missed a couple of the smaller galaxies, but the seeing being somewhat bad I might have mistaken them for stars... In any case you can see NGC 494, 503, 504, 507, 508, and IC 1687 and 1690...

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[Marko]

Good chance for me to test my new observation extraction script. I see 41 observations extracted from my collection. Yes this is a highly recommended project as you have pointed out S&T piece by SteveG on this group.

Thanks for the reminder of this great area!

I'll put this as an attachment so it does not 'clutter' the board readable area.

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