And now my face will undergo a red-shift ... of embarrassment for my
speculation on the matter.
Mark(J)
Steve Gottlieb wrote:
> Looks like you ran across another bug in Megastar. There ain't no
> (visible) galaxy at the center of NGC 4147. In fact, the ESO-Uppsala
> catalogue is a Schmidt Survey that covers from -17 degrees dec and
> below. So, there are no ESO galaxies anywhere near NGC 4147. Looking
> up ESO 287-23, the position is 12h 10m 05s -43d 35.9m.
> Coincidentally, that puts it at the same RA as NGC 4147, but 62
> degrees further south! I've never submitted a list of bugs to the
> author of Megastar and I haven't heard whether there is going to be
> another update anytime in the near future, so just scratch ESO
> 287-23. If you want to be cruel, list it as a "challenge" object from
> Megastar and wait for the first visual report to come in.
>
> Steve
>
> On Mar 20, 2008, at 11:21 AM, Mark Wagner wrote:
>
>>
>> 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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