Object of the Week January 13, 2013 NGC 2207 and IC 2163 (Cosmic Ballet)

[Dragan]

My first experience with this object came on the night of the 23 of February back in 2009. Here are my notes from that night.

TeleVue Ethos 13mm, 375x
A trainwreck of an interacting pair Both arms visible on 2207. Main arm of IC 2163 visible. a superimposed star(?) on 2207 was apparent. Unable to confirm the MAC but during moments of steady seeing I' do see something there. Have to revisit this one.

I make mention in my notes of a MAC. Looking at Megastar, one MAC appears to be off the arm of IC2163 while the other appears to be Jimis challenge object. >ooking at the pictures above that Jimi posted, I'm not so sure now that's what we were looking at. I wonder which MAC my notes refer too. We would have been using Megastar that night so it can be either. I just don't remember. *sigh*

I really really have to get get better at taking notes....

[Jimi Lowrey]

Dragan,

The MAC objects are not the 2MASX galaxy that I posted as the challenge object.

One of the MAC objects is a H II knot on the east end of IC 2163. The other MAC object is a triple star south of the group. hope this helps.