Nice report on Crater. Nice to hear that the moon or moon craters
didn't get in your way, Mark.
On Apr 14, 2005, at 12:39 PM, Mark Wagner wrote:
> NGC 3751 - Galaxy type SO, mag 13.9, SB 12.7, size 0.8'x0.5'. At
> first I thought I was just dyslexic and had transposed numbers with
> the prior object, but no, this was really the next on my list. It is
> located very close to NGC 3571, on the same line toward Alpha
> Crateris. Small, bright and round, with a stellar core.
Dyslexic or not, there is something odd about this number -- it applies
to one of the galaxies in Copeland's Septet, up in Leo! I'm confused.
> NGC 3734 - Galaxy type Sbc, mag 13.7, SB 13.9, size 1.4'x1.0'. I used
> Iota (24) Crateris as the jumping off point to hop to this target. It
> was extremely faint and yielded no detail. I could see it only in the
> 12 Nagler and even then, only by jiggling the telescope, which showed
> a round ghost coming in and out with averted vision.
Although William found this one from England, John described it as a
difficult object, though high in the sky from the Cape of Good Hope! I
still haven't looked for this guy.
Steve
Received on Fri Apr 15 21:46:34 2005