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    February Sky & Tel article on extreme northern galaxies

    For another observing project I have an article in the upcoming February issue of Sky & Telescope on galaxies within 5° of the north celestial pole. Here's the first and last page, showing a table of galaxies discussed in the article.
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    Interesting to see that the majority of the galaxies lie between RA 7h and 9h. I guess that's due to absorption in the Milky Way.


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    It's an interesting group. I've only seen NGC 3172, J. Herschel's Polarissima Borealis.

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    Quote Originally Posted by wvreeven View Post
    Interesting to see that the majority of the galaxies lie between RA 7h and 9h. I guess that's due to absorption in the Milky Way.
    Most galaxies in this region are part of the NGC 2276 group (also known as LGG 145). The redshift-based distance is ~100 million l.y.
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    Thanks for the clarification, Steve!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ivan Maly View Post
    It's an interesting group. I've only seen NGC 3172, J. Herschel's Polarissima Borealis.
    You should give it a try Ivan it's a fun quest.

    Good suggestion Steve in showing people there is more to be observed around the N Pole than people think. 4 years ago I did this with my 12.5" going as far south as 80 N. Over 5 nights I managed 50 galaxies although the last night was only needed to gather in the final 3. It was tough and like you suggest took a very detailed chart I cobbled together from Megastar. Many of the tiny faint ones took magnifications up to 500X.

    These are the galaxies I observed.

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    Bill, excellent results with your 12.5"! Like you I used Megastar charts to chase down the toughies. I didn't feel comfortable, though, "endorsing" Megastar in the article – its hard to recommend purchasing a program that's basically unsupported and will likely have no future updating.
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    Thanks Steve for sharing this. I am in Kiruna, Sweden, will try to see them.

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    PGC 17485 (Declination: 89 19 47)
    http://www.zorya.co/object/26728
    http://www.dreistein.nl/dso/UGC3211a.aspx

    There is also PGC 3085872
    http://www.scideveloper.com/Products/DSCN.txt
    GX 38.49854 +89.64602 +0.00 +0.00 0 0 - 25.0 15.9 154 17.5 99.0 99.0 "PGC 3085872"="DSCN 359-2"
    http://cdsportal.u-strasbg.fr/?target=PGC%203085872
    Last edited by hevelius; January 12th, 2018 at 08:28 PM.

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