Mike JW
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Mike JW started following My EAA Adventure continues... , Keep those pictures coming... , A few nice lunar craters and 3 others
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Hi Peter, With my 20" Dob I once caught a hint of the HorseHead visually and only in very good skies. Easier in a 24" Dob. GB skies are just not good enough. Cheers Mike
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The sketch captures the ruggedness of the area - a good detailed sketch. Mike (My observing/sketching days have come to an end.)
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Excellent sketch which captures this object. Mike
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Hi Richard, Enjoyed your post - close to what I would see with a 20"Dob. I too went from visual to non-colour EEVA for the the 'more natural' view and stayed with black/white for my years of using EEVA to 'observe'. Colour does have value for PNs, studying star clusters and for picking up hydrogen alpha regions in galaxies. Enjoy the EEVA journey. Mike
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Hi Nick, If you look through the EEVA section for posts by William Scutcher and Martin Meridith you will find many examples of what can be achieved with a 8" Newt. Operating at f6 will be fine but Bill (William) used a focal reducer and if I remember correctly Martin was using a Quattro at around the f4 region. Both used lodestar quide camers. When I was active at the same time as Bill and Martin there results frequently came close to my 15"/ultrastar set up. Use what ever gear you have and enjoy yourself. Cheers, Mike
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Camera purchase - ZWOASI585mc - or alternative?
Mike JW replied to Jimbo64's topic in Discussions - EEVA Equipment
Go for DSO - so many adventures to be had. Planetary is limited for opportunities. -
Excellent collection and such good results. I have just checked against my archive of Arps and none of mine add anymore details, despite using the 15. Mike
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Hi Pete, I used a C9.25 for awhile using the EEVA approach. You probably have about 50,000 targets within reach. Messiers, Herschel 400, Caldwell, the brighter (and more interesting) NGC - around 600 of them, the Arps, the Hicksons, then the VVs, SHKs, WBLs, PCGs, Ring Galaxies.......and so it goes on. If you look in the EEVA Reports section you will find threads assigned to the various lists. Enjoy the journey, Mike
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Well done, good to take a look at the Arps and to ponder what is going on with the galaxies. It does seem to be uncertain as what is causing the disturbance. Enjoy your EEVA journey - I have sold my gear - age catching up on me........time to move on. Mike
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Always worth a go at the low down objects. The central white dwarf star is obviously white in your shot. Mike
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Lovely to see this Arp again. By reducing the brightness I picked up hint of the arms around the core. Also my shot clearly shows PGC 10169 and always nice to pick up a quasar. Mike
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It also has a very active nucleus. A very fine member of our local galaxy group. Mike
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Hi Martin, I am glad you have drawn my attention to '6' in 365 - looking at NED, this galaxy would appear to be a spiral tilted towards us and hence I seem to have got a hint of the spiral nature. NED gave no details for the galaxies in 365, so no idea of distance or magnitudes. '8' in 142 - NED gives no clues. Mike
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Vorontsov-Velyaminov interacting galaxies
Mike JW replied to Martin Meredith's topic in EEVA - Reports
I came across VV 968 in Pisces. It is designated as NN = 3+ galaxies but disrupted. The two close galaxies in professional images hint at the galaxies disrupting each other. The third member is off to the left. They all have very similar redshift values. Just above the middle galaxy is a small fuzz patch - this galaxy is much further out. The indicated quasar is 3+ billion lyrs away but I doubt it is mag 21: maybe mag 19/20 Mike