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    Co-Founder DSF.com Jimi Lowrey's Avatar
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    Discovery of Another Possible Voorwerp

    A friend sent this to me so I thought I would pass it on to the group.

    There is a possible new Voorwerp they have yet to get telescope time to confirm it at this time.

    PGC 86888

    Cnc

    09 05 05.75

    +32 37 20.5

    G MAG 16.3
    R MAG 15.57

    V Mag 15.8 + or -

    pgc 86888.jpg

    I wounder what the nebula's MAG is ?
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    GALEX 2737003351503798670, USNO-A2.0 1200-06222713

    NED gives it mag. 19.0 in red: http://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/cgi-bin/...=0.73&corr_z=1

    SIMBAD gives it mag. 18.8 in blue: http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/si...&submit=submit

    VIZIER: http://vizier.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/V... 1200-06222713

    Only other info on the web I ran into was http://www.galaxyzooforum.org/index....c=271742.18060
    Last edited by Clear Skies; June 30th, 2012 at 08:25 AM.
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    Check out a screen dump: http://www.physics.drexel.edu/~stein...m%204185-2.jpg from a fellow observer and imager in our group (Delaware Valley Amateur Astronomers)

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    Looks like we may have more Voorwerp images coming soon!!


    http://blog.galaxyzoo.org/2013/01/08...the-same-time/
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