Mark Johnston wrote:
> Have not really posted an OR but had a fun night Monday out at the
> pads at the peak.
> Logged 30+ re-observations from my past observations in mostly 8" scope.
> Conditions had 50% cloud cover of high thin clouds with bands open
> between them or
> in one area of the sky or another fairly large holes. (Non-ideal but
> workable)
>
> While observing objects in LEO I ran across something that I feel sure
> was present but cannot explain it from my charts and info.
>
> Centered at 10 47 04.9 +12 43 14 which is about 15' west of NGC3384
> (very near M105) was
> a very faint glow which appeared spherical with extremely low surface
> brightness that from
> other objects I was observing would say was close to mag 14 or dimmer.
> This had a diameter of around 5'. Halfway between 3384 and the center
> star of a line of 3
> mag 8-9 stars just to the North West of NGC3384 and M105.
>
> Perhaps I'll never know OR it was a bug on the lens ...
hmmm. those coords in Jnow or J2000 or what?
starry night shows a bunch of faint galaxies in that general vicinity,
which mostly have PGC designations, and are like mag 17...
http://hogranch.com/files/Bitmaps/sn-ngc3384-m105.png
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