Thanks Steve and all,
I'm just plugging away on my observing projects. :) I have 9 more to
go out of 82 valid Abells, if you count Abell 21, then I'm done and off
to another project and a much easier project, Arp Galaxies, actually
started on it. I'm also kicking off the Abell Galaxy Cluster project,
but probably need about an entire night to study the larger ones.
Rick Honeycutt recently wrote and article in S&T on observing these
planetaries.........while I was working on it. He actually bagged all
of them! I still can't get Abell 13 in Orion! Abell 9 is another
toughie!
Thanks again,
Alvin
-----Original Message-----
From: sf-bay-tac-bounces@No-Spam [mailto:sf-bay-tac-bounces@No-Spam]
On Behalf Of Steve Gottlieb
Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 5:32 PM
To: The Astronomy Connection
Subject: Re: [TAC] OR: March Abell Planetaries
On Apr 11, 2005, at 9:21 PM, Alvin Huey wrote:
Here is the OR I owed you guys/gals. Continued my Abell Planetary
survey.
Alvin
I'm not sure folks appreciate what Alvin is accomplishing here. A number
of the planetaries in Alvin's survey have only been seen by a handful of
experienced observers and would not have been considered possible just a
few years back (I tried a survey with my 13-inch and 17.5--inch back in
the '80's with much less success). This is serious, hardcore observing
stuff! I'd suggest writing this up for an article in S&T though they
have backed away from advanced-level observing articles. As far as I'm
concerned You Da Man and congratulations are in order!
Steve
Received on Tue Apr 12 20:03:41 2005