New Observing Guide - The VV Catalogue

[FaintFuzzies]

Hope you enjoy it, especially those with big scopes.

http://www.faintfuzzies.com/DownloadableObservingGuides2.html

[Ivan Maly]

By far the most usable form of this in many ways difficult catalog that I have seen - thank you, Alvin!

By some coincidence - unless the whole humanity is now focused on this catalog - I was just counting VV's that I observed... the number is low but I have collected the observing notes on one of the new index pages on my blog.

[Ivan Maly]

More VV trivia... The great astronomer and popularizer of science was fond of "unprofessional" escapades. Here in my sister's article about one of his popular astronomy books is a picture of him grinding a mirror just for fun: http://bibliogid.ru/articles/3338

[FaintFuzzies]

Galaxy hounds,

Part II is now available on my website. Many more VV's than Part I - well over 400 objects. I've spent some time going through his original list and made corrections to coordinates, edited some size and magnitudes and for a few, corrected the locations.

Hope you find this one stop observing guide useful at the eyepiece.

[Uwe Glahn]

Thank you Alvin,

great work!

I'm not a big fan of any observing guides, because I always try to organize my own. But your two VV's are the first guides I looked trough and I used to find new challenges. I'm working and observing the VV for years but your compilation is just perfect to organize the whole and large VV numbers.

Thank you again, uwe

[Paul Alsing]

Ivan, the on-line translation of you sister's article is quite entertaining, with some of the translations being quite cryptic and also very funny. I have to ask, however, just what is meant by "only snouts and twenty kopecks". It must be slang for money, but the actual meaning escapes me.

Also, I learned that VV was just a single fellow; I had always assumed that it was 2 people...

[FaintFuzzies]

Hi all,

Sorry I forgot to post this earlier as it has been out for a little while. But I thought some of you galaxy hounds with huge telescopes would like an extreme challenge.

Check it out and let me know.

http://www.faintfuzzies.com/DownloadableObservingGuides2.html

[Galaxter]

Hi, new here. I've been a DSO observer since the early 1980's. Presently have a 10" Dob and 12.5" Truss Dob. Almost all my observing and sketching is galaxies. I still like to use U2K copies at the scope and any other online info and charts.
I still use my old Sky Catalogue 2000 vol 2. It first introduced me to the Arp's, VV's, Zwicky's, Seyfert's, and Markarians and has far more listings of these than I can see with my equipment. I still use this Catalogue in making up my galaxy observing lists along with other sources. I have recently been focused on observing as many of the Arp's, VVs, and HCG's and maybe a few Zwicky's as I can with my equipment. With some, I feel like I am getting into galaxy splitting, like N 2207/IC 2163 CMa, N 5426/27 (VV 21, Arp 271), N 4782/83 (VV 201, 3C 278), and N 4567/68 (VV 219) "Siamese Twins." But that's part of the fun with these close galaxy pairs and groups.

Phil