Accidentally cut/paste bad coordinates but the description was correct.
From MegaStar the coordinates I just manually obtained it would have
been at RA 10 47 33 DEC +12 52 05
I am not sure if that is J2000 or what.
In playing with time and turning on all astroids and so on I see that In
a day or so 'Douglas (2684)' ends up exactly
where this very dim sphere was but not until May 30 2008 at 3:10 UT
as below.
I think I will get current coordinates for Douglas and see if my older
MegaStar data is off and maybe this really
was Astroid Douglas a bit ahead of my perhaps older numbers below.
Douglas (2684)
Asteroid
2454616.6319 JD UT
May 30 2008 3:10 UT
May 29 2008 20:10
RA: 10h 47m 36.6s
Dec: +12° 51' 53"
Mag: 17.3
% Illum: 97
Earth Dist: 2.8642 AU
Sun Dist: 3.0292 AU
Sun Elong: 89.5
Diam: ---
B-V: -0.10
Code 1: ---
Code 2: ---
Code 3: ---
Code 4: ---
Code 5: ---
Code 6: ---
Alt: 63.4°, Az: 205.9°
Transit: 19:28
Rise: 12:42
Set: 02:10
John R Pierce wrote:
> 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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