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  1. Observation of two "uncataloged" galaxies

    Started by wvreeven, November 11th, 2015 09:14 PM
    • Replies: 2
    • Views: 3,485
    November 12th, 2015, 07:05 AM Go to last post
  2. Northern lights from Spitsbergen

    Started by wvreeven, January 2nd, 2017 11:51 AM
    • Replies: 4
    • Views: 3,577
    January 13th, 2017, 05:33 PM Go to last post
    • Replies: 1
    • Views: 3,373
    June 14th, 2017, 01:01 PM Go to last post
    • Replies: 24
    • Views: 71,714
    October 28th, 2019, 11:19 PM Go to last post
  3. A five-image lensed quasar discovered by PanSTARRS and GAIA

    Started by wvreeven, September 28th, 2017 07:34 AM
    • Replies: 2
    • Views: 37,589
    September 29th, 2017, 08:16 AM Go to last post
  4. Observe a microlens event

    Started by wvreeven, November 7th, 2017 06:54 AM
    • Replies: 4
    • Views: 41,717
    November 14th, 2017, 07:11 PM Go to last post
  5. Two more newly discovered quadruply-imaged quasars

    Started by wvreeven, November 9th, 2017 09:20 AM
    • Replies: 0
    • Views: 38,009
    November 9th, 2017, 09:20 AM Go to last post
  6. Newly discovered quadruply lensed quasar

    Started by wvreeven, October 11th, 2018 06:45 AM
    • Replies: 2
    • Views: 59,481
    November 17th, 2018, 12:11 AM Go to last post
  7. The outer shells of M 2-55 and Abel 2

    Started by wvreeven, March 13th, 2020 12:06 PM
    • Replies: 0
    • Views: 47,428
    March 13th, 2020, 12:06 PM Go to last post
  8. 2 Galaxies around M57

    Started by vasilas432, August 13th, 2016 10:46 AM
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    • Replies: 25
    • Views: 44,426
    February 6th, 2017, 07:05 PM Go to last post
  9. VV 788 (7Zw466) - fascinating and "easy" ring galaxy

    Started by Uwe Glahn, April 7th, 2012 01:34 PM
    • Replies: 9
    • Views: 12,237
    April 2nd, 2016, 07:01 AM Go to last post
    • Replies: 1
    • Views: 3,630
    June 2nd, 2012, 07:57 PM Go to last post
  10. Sh 2-80 "Merrill's Star"

    Started by Uwe Glahn, June 26th, 2012 07:46 PM
    • Replies: 8
    • Views: 10,209
    June 18th, 2014, 08:07 AM Go to last post
  11. Bipolar Planetary Nebula Sanduleak 2-237 (PNG 11.1+7.0)

    Started by Uwe Glahn, August 26th, 2012 07:40 AM
    • Replies: 3
    • Views: 4,692
    October 9th, 2012, 07:28 AM Go to last post
    • Replies: 0
    • Views: 3,092
    April 27th, 2013, 09:01 PM Go to last post
  12. Messier 57 - stars inside

    Started by Uwe Glahn, May 20th, 2013 04:54 PM
    • Replies: 6
    • Views: 16,397
    July 23rd, 2013, 03:28 PM Go to last post
  13. Cosmic "T" VII Zw 601

    Started by Uwe Glahn, June 4th, 2014 08:59 PM
    • Replies: 7
    • Views: 5,582
    July 6th, 2014, 06:29 AM Go to last post
  14. I Zw 18 aka UGCA 166

    Started by Uwe Glahn, October 22nd, 2014 09:15 PM
    • Replies: 5
    • Views: 5,561
    October 25th, 2014, 01:05 PM Go to last post
  15. Globular Cluster in NGC 147

    Started by Uwe Glahn, December 9th, 2015 07:52 PM
    • Replies: 11
    • Views: 5,941
    December 18th, 2015, 07:03 AM Go to last post
  16. WR stars in M33 HII regions (NGC 588/592/595/604)

    Started by Uwe Glahn, October 11th, 2016 08:01 PM
    • Replies: 6
    • Views: 3,937
    October 16th, 2016, 04:57 AM Go to last post
  17. New compilation of Protoplanetary Nebula

    Started by Uwe Glahn, March 14th, 2017 09:35 PM
    • Replies: 10
    • Views: 52,803
    June 22nd, 2018, 09:18 PM Go to last post
  18. Molecular Cloud MBM 54 around NGC 7497 visually

    Started by Uwe Glahn, September 17th, 2019 08:11 PM
    • Replies: 8
    • Views: 43,242
    February 28th, 2020, 09:38 AM Go to last post
  19. SNR G206.9+2.3 in Monoceros

    Started by Uwe Glahn, December 31st, 2020 12:33 PM
    • Replies: 3
    • Views: 3,667
    March 3rd, 2023, 04:23 PM Go to last post
  20. "Pleiades Bubble" through a 4-inch binocular-telescope

    Started by Uwe Glahn, January 16th, 2021 09:15 AM
    • Replies: 10
    • Views: 4,646
    January 28th, 2021, 03:53 PM Go to last post
  21. DQ Her (NOVA Her 1934) anyone?

    Started by Uwe Glahn, August 24th, 2021 06:56 PM
    • Replies: 1
    • Views: 2,113
    September 24th, 2021, 08:14 AM Go to last post

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