Backrounds and unidentified faint fuzzies

[Dave_D]

So while i was poking around with stacks and whatnot, i came to see that quite a few of my pics contain a lot of faint fuzzies (they definitely seem to be non-stellar to my noobish eye). is there a data source online anyone knows of that will help identify them? interested mainly in magnitudes but i'd like to know what these objects are to give me an idea of the capabilities of this scope. guess i'm far too curious for my own good

[Steve Ward]

http://astrometry.net/  ... just upload your image and it will be processed and marked up for you ... 

[Dave_D]

http://astrometry.net/  ... just upload your image and it will be processed and marked up for you ... 

Thanks, one to remember. it only showed NGC891 and HD14771 though.

[NickK]

I wonder if aladin will shed some light onto the query..

Yup - I just fired up the client and it shows (with simbad overlay) all of the galaxies and more, for example:

They all seem around the mag 16-18 scale.

[Zakalwe]

Ye, Aladin is the best way to identify them IMHO. Astrometry.net doesn't  go very deep.

There's a good "how-to" for Aladin here:

http://stargazerslounge.com/topic/188528-counting-galaxies-in-images/?p=1965865

[NickK]

Also you can find different types of target from the catalogue too:

http://stargazerslounge.com/topic/139102-quick-how-to-find-interesting-things-in-aladin-step-pics/?hl=simbad#entry1391254

[Dave_D]

I wonder if aladin will shed some light onto the query..

Yup - I just fired up the client and it shows (with simbad overlay) all of the galaxies and more, for example:

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They all seem around the mag 16-18 scale.

having a look at Aladin now i actually found them on the nasa/ipac extragalactic database