Steve Gottlieb said:
>I also took a look at NGC 4035 last night from Lake Sonoma. That mag 9
>star on TheSky at the position of the galaxy IS the galaxy. The Guide Star
>Catalogue (GSC) includes tens of thousands of galaxies -- mostly given as
>"non-stellar" objects. The GSC positions are generally on the nucleus of
>the galaxy. For some reason, the scanning software for the GSC must have
>labeled this galaxy (or core) as stellar, so it appears as a mag 9.3
>"star". You'll probably run across this again
I have run into it before. Particularly, where all that shows is a star,
and it will show as Non-stellar in the info dialogue box (you showed me
that in 1997 at Fiddletown)... the odd thing here, on this object, is that
TheSky not only shows the mag 9.3 star (mistakenly), it also shows the
galaxy in the same position. When I finally decided to stop looking for
the bright star at that position, the galaxy showed itself!
Mark
Received on Mon Apr 11 11:31:53 2005