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When will you be returning to Chile?

I would like to plan a trip there to observe southern objects, especially the globular clusters of the LMC and SMC.

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I had a similar experience in the same part of the sky with NGC 7448 and 7454 last year. They should have been fairly easy in my 13.1 inch scope, but it took forever to verify them because of...

I have all the Webb books and even some of the newsletters from the '80s when I was a member of the Webb Society. Kenneth Glyn Jones was the leader and a great guy to correspond with about all...

I am in Michigan, USA and have been wanting to do a southern hemisphere trip for a while. Has anyone been on a stargazing trip to either Chile or Namibia? Those are the two places I'd like to go and...

Last night I was observing deep sky objects in Lyra with a 13.1 inch reflector. I noticed that UGC 11260, a barred spiral galaxy had unusually high surface brightness, to the point that it was...

I observed the open cluster King 6 in Camelopardalis many years ago, but recently came across an online reference that said it was the same cluster as OCL 381 from the Alter et al list of 1970. If...

To generate finder charts I use

http://server7.sky-map.org/

The beta version (click the mouse icon in the upper left) is easier to navigate. You can search on NGC, IC, UGC, PGC, PK, etc and...

Thank you all for the observations and background information on the cluster. I think what it comes down to is whether the star Pal-1C is part of the cluster, because I am pretty sure I observed that...

Last night we had some really clear skies with low humidity and no haze, which is unusual for Michigan in July. So I attempted to observe Palomar 1, a very faint globular cluster in Cepheus. At 375x...

I was curious as to whether I logged this one as a galaxy or planetary so I checked my observing archives. I saw this galaxy on 12 April 1991 from northern Vermont with the 13.1 inch Odyssey 1 and...

I just looked through the Zwicky CGCG and the error calling the open cluster Berkeley 29 a "resolved dwarf system" was found in Volume II, Page 2 (field number 85, POSS Plate 417) published in 1963....

Thanks, Owen! There is indeed a cluster there. The source I listed was in error on the coordinates of Berkeley 24 and at least one other cluster on the list. That was the only online source I could...

Steve, since Zwicky or Vorontsov-Velyaminov have it listed in their catalogs, I'm guessing the error was copied by the UGC. I'll have to look through the CGCG to see if Zwicky commented on it. On...

Thanks, Dragan. This is a great forum. I'll try to contribute observations of interesting objects as I find and observe them.

I first corresponded with Steve before the internet was much of a...

Thanks, Steve! I had a feeling you'd have an answer, but still impressed at how quick and detailed. I didn't know it was on the list of Berkely clusters. Tosi et al (2005) mentions that it could be...

Hello, this is my first post here. I have been observing for about 40 years. My latest project is to observe open clusters that are not plotted in Uranometria 2000. A couple nights ago I observed OCL...