I was putting together an observing list for next 3rdQ/NM, and found it includes quite a few nice
Arp and Hickson catalog entries, some excellent edge-on galaxies and big Abell galaxy clusters.
But I also ran into a globular cluster, NGC 4147 - described as "Moderately bright, fairly small,
irregular 2'-2.5' diameter,very small bright core." OK, nice for a change after a bunch of
galaxies. But, looking at Megastar, it seems to be a foreground object to ESO 287-23, which
would be quite a stretch on its own, at 16.5 (0.8'x0.2'). Still, I was curious, so I looked at
the DSS image, and, how do they know there's a galaxy there!?!? Check it out!
http://tinyurl.com/ys5dhf
Mark
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Received on Thu Mar 20 11:30:28 2008