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Forum: Off the Beaten Path

Need a new and difficult challenge? Look in here. This is the forum for you to post and read about the most challenging and obscure objects in the night sky! A great place to look for new observing challenges! Messiers need not apply!

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    October 28th, 2019, 11:19 PM Go to last post
  1. HE 1104-1805 Lensed Quasar

    Started by Jimi Lowrey, March 28th, 2019 10:23 PM
    • Replies: 3
    • Views: 68,191
    April 6th, 2019, 03:30 PM Go to last post
  2. Newly discovered quadruply lensed quasar

    Started by wvreeven, October 11th, 2018 06:45 AM
    • Replies: 2
    • Views: 59,299
    November 17th, 2018, 12:11 AM Go to last post
  3. The Eridanus Bubble, the Western counterpart of Barnard's Loop

    Started by reiner, February 10th, 2012 01:39 PM
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    • Views: 56,664
    December 8th, 2022, 06:01 PM Go to last post
  4. New compilation of Protoplanetary Nebula

    Started by Uwe Glahn, March 14th, 2017 09:35 PM
    • Replies: 10
    • Views: 52,576
    June 22nd, 2018, 09:18 PM Go to last post
  5. New DSO: Nick's Cascade

    Started by RolandosCY, September 18th, 2018 07:35 PM
    • Replies: 8
    • Views: 50,357
    October 5th, 2019, 01:55 AM Go to last post
  6. Sh 2-174 (OIII and H-Beta Filter)

    Started by Mathias, December 1st, 2019 03:46 AM
    • Replies: 4
    • Views: 48,595
    January 10th, 2020, 11:00 PM Go to last post
  7. Asterisms of the NGC

    Started by Daniel_Sp, January 21st, 2018 06:35 AM
    • Replies: 1
    • Views: 47,886
    January 22nd, 2018, 04:44 AM Go to last post
  8. The outer shells of M 2-55 and Abel 2

    Started by wvreeven, March 13th, 2020 12:06 PM
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    • Views: 47,284
    March 13th, 2020, 12:06 PM Go to last post
  9. Pease 1. Planetary in M15

    Started by theodorus, August 23rd, 2015 08:33 PM
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    • Views: 45,736
    January 25th, 2016, 03:20 PM Go to last post
  10. 2 Galaxies around M57

    Started by vasilas432, August 13th, 2016 10:46 AM
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    • Replies: 25
    • Views: 44,056
    February 6th, 2017, 07:05 PM Go to last post
  11. Molecular Cloud MBM 54 around NGC 7497 visually

    Started by Uwe Glahn, September 17th, 2019 08:11 PM
    • Replies: 8
    • Views: 43,105
    February 28th, 2020, 09:38 AM Go to last post
  12. Two UCD's in Messier 59

    Started by Jimi Lowrey, April 16th, 2018 09:23 PM
    • Replies: 3
    • Views: 42,323
    April 22nd, 2018, 09:55 AM Go to last post
  13. Observe a microlens event

    Started by wvreeven, November 7th, 2017 06:54 AM
    • Replies: 4
    • Views: 41,540
    November 14th, 2017, 07:11 PM Go to last post
  14. M31 globular clusters

    Started by Steve Gottlieb, October 6th, 2018 02:51 AM
    • Replies: 1
    • Views: 41,019
    October 6th, 2018, 02:58 AM Go to last post
  15. Longmore 16

    Started by Raul Leon, June 22nd, 2020 08:44 PM
    • Replies: 6
    • Views: 40,498
    June 28th, 2020, 06:34 AM Go to last post
  16. HII regions in M81

    Started by Ivan Maly, January 10th, 2018 07:18 PM
    • Replies: 7
    • Views: 40,040
    June 1st, 2018, 01:07 PM Go to last post
  17. False Cheerio

    Started by Norman, June 13th, 2018 08:10 AM
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    • Views: 39,900
    June 13th, 2018, 08:10 AM Go to last post
  18. Patchick 27 planetary nebula candidate

    Started by Robin, September 24th, 2018 08:36 PM
    • Replies: 3
    • Views: 39,532
    November 13th, 2018, 08:54 PM Go to last post
  19. Two more newly discovered quadruply-imaged quasars

    Started by wvreeven, November 9th, 2017 09:20 AM
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    • Views: 37,854
    November 9th, 2017, 09:20 AM Go to last post
  20. A five-image lensed quasar discovered by PanSTARRS and GAIA

    Started by wvreeven, September 28th, 2017 07:34 AM
    • Replies: 2
    • Views: 37,400
    September 29th, 2017, 08:16 AM Go to last post
  21. Pu 1

    Started by obrazell, August 29th, 2018 09:14 AM
    • Replies: 1
    • Views: 36,742
    August 29th, 2018, 08:28 PM Go to last post
  22. Globular Cluster hunting -- in Barnard's Galaxy!

    Started by Steve Gottlieb, July 30th, 2017 04:14 AM
    • Replies: 17
    • Views: 36,531
    August 15th, 2017, 09:37 AM Go to last post
  23. Volcano Nebula IFN

    Started by Robin, May 1st, 2017 11:21 AM
    • Replies: 9
    • Views: 35,090
    March 13th, 2018, 09:24 AM Go to last post
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    • Views: 32,791
    August 28th, 2012, 05:26 PM Go to last post

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