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VV 124 / MCG +09-15-113 / CGCG 264-088 / UGC 4879
Ursa Major
Dwarf Galaxy
RA 09:16:02.0
DEC 52:50:42
Bmag +13.7
Size 2.1’ x 1.3’
Dist 4.32 million light-years

Excellent report, Uwe. And thank you so much for reporting your sighting to us in the first place! I've got my charts created and am all set to give it a try after the Moon exits the sky.

Scott

Well, between Reeven's coordinates and the nice image from Earthsky.org to help me pinpoint the QSO, I took a look at it on DSS images. I'd say that if it was higher in the sky (it's in Pictor, 1*...

Okay, Robin, I've looked at FP J0711-2531 twice now this winter and twice I saw it with an O-III filter. The second time was a few nights ago and it was distinct in my 16-inch with an eyepiece...

Before your post late last year, Robin, I had this one on my list of FOUR lensed quasars to chase down in Crater. And of the three I managed to see in my 16-inch a few nights ago, 2M 1134-2103 was...

Thanks for posting your attempt, Robin. I've found that reflection nebulae are tricky and one of the very hardest of the deep-sky objects to see because they usually involve discerning a faint glow...

"How would you like to observe something new?"

I would! I would!

Yesterday, on the evening of February 5th, I got my first really good night to observe since Jan 10. Knowing I would be using my...

I checked and my notes read "At 278x in 10-inch was a small diffuse glow that was more evident than I expected it to be." No filter was used. And as you'll see in the image below, Hakann, it's not a...

I'll check my notes later to see if I've actually observed it, but the H II region lies in the OB association cataloged as "A45". And the H II region was first cataloged as "Mayall & Aller 9a" (MA9a)...

[KBT2017] Gaia 1, A Sirius Star Cluster
Canis Major
Open Cluster
RA 06:45:53.8
DEC -16:43:59
Mag +8.3???
Size 13"-15”
Dist 15,000 l-y

Okay, with my SQM-L reading 21.45 and Simeis 280 (EGB 1) at culmination, I attempted to see it in my recently cleaned 40-year-old Meade 10-inch SCT. At 91x (TV31) and a 2-inch NPB filter, I could see...

I can confirm that it's visible in my 10-inch SCT with a filter and as Uwe attested, in (my) 16-inch without a filter at 300x (just tried it a few days ago). This is one bright SNR considering it's...

I tried for this one a few years ago in my 10-inch SCT, but even with a filter I could not quite convince myself of having seen it. Fast forward to last Wednesday evening and I took my first shot at...

So, while doing research on a different paper, I learned of a 2018 paper by Rodríguez, Baume, and Feinstein titled
Identification and Analysis of the Young Population in the Starburst Galaxy NGC...

Wow, thanks for the early post, Uwe, because it allowed me to chase the molecular cloud(s) last night under 21.3 mpsas skies. At 37x in my 6" reflector, my view was EXACTLY what you drew with your 4"...

From my home at latitude 36.1*N. I didn't have a sky quality meter at the time, but it was a truly special evening. I saw several things that night with the naked-eye and 7x35 binoculars that I know...

Good research there, Akarsh. I've seen NGC 253 naked-eye and hopefully, am not the only one on this forum to have done so! I've tried for the globular cluster [LA83] NGC 253 35 (+17.58b) once with my...

K648, Ps 1, PK 065-27.1, PN G 065.0-27.3
Pegasus
Planetary Nebula
RA 21:29:59.4
DEC +12:10:26
Mag +14.7 (central star), +15.1 (ionized nebula)
Size 3”
Dist 33,900 l-y

You certainly should be able to see it. On August 16, 2020 I saw it at 118x as a soft glow in my...new 130mm f/5 Chinese reflector!!

Thanks for that, Jiri. Where a Lynds Bright Nebula ends and another begins isn't easy to see or draw!

By the way, Victor van Wulfen has found (and SIMBAD agrees) that what you labeled as the open...

Sharpless-Osterbrock 15, Stromlo (Gum) 73, Sharpless 2-27
Zeta Ophuchi Nebula
Ophiuchus
Shockwave Emission Nebula
RA 16:37:10
DEC -10:34:02
Mag --
Size 9°

(Note: Paul Alsing let me go a...

"Steinicke's book"? You are being pretty vague there, Akarsh. But I'm assuming you mean Galaxies and How to Observe Them my Jakiel and Steinicke. I don't own a copy, but got to read through one once....

Wow, I didn't know I was such an international star!

Bellazzini, Ferraro, and Ibata (2002) were the first of many papers to suggest that NGC 5634 is a "stolen" globular while Malhan et al (2022)...

Three comments, Wouter.

First, this 84,700 light-year distant globular star cluster would be visible in my 7x35 binocular if it weren't for the magnitude +8.0 star just southeast. Instead, it's...

Nice write-up, Uwe. In my June 2023 Sky & Telescope article titled "Far-Out Globular Clusters", I treaded lightly on the origin of M53 & NGC 5053 by writing "While there is a high probability that...