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SHK 63, 122, 123 - all in UMA and Pal 4


Mike JW

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A short-ish session but some interesting objects.

Pal 4 - such a faint, small Globular - 410,000 lyrs away.

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SHK 63 - where is it was my first thought, look to the right of the shot. It took me awhile to locate it by which time I had done the subs and could not face re-doing it with it in the center of the fov. I was getting tired. The tiny fuzz above the fuzz pairing on the right is mag 19.1.

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SHK 122 - start with the obvious galaxy to the left of centre near the bottom and imagine a thumbs up sign (left thumb) - love it - follow the curve up and then loop down. At the top of the loop is a fairly bright galaxy and now as you go down the next fuzz is actually J11430+5718 - just a mere mag 19.4!

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SHK 123 - this little beauty wins the award tonight for shape. It is the shape of Corona Borealis but then look to the right, there is a "space ship" approaching - the bright fuzz with one either side. The two outriders are mag 18.5 ish.

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All this achieved in these considerably less polluted skies during lock down and of course here in GB, it is no longer getting astro dark. The power of EEVA - superb.

Mike

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Hi Mike

Lovely shots. You never really know what you are going to get with these groups but their forms can be quite compelling and always distinct.

Whenever you post a Shakhbazian I check to see if it is amongst my fairly meagre collection and in this case I turned up some observations of SHK 122 and 123 (noisier than yours):

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I see that I observed these in late July. In spite of new sensors, my kit hasn't changed at all in 5 years (6 actually). I was also thinking about how late one needs to get out to have a good dark session at this time of year, although at my latitude it isn't quite as bad.

I've observed 3 quite interesting SHKs in the last couple of days -- now where's that Shakhbazian thread?!

Martin

 

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SHKs are quite a challenge to locate if the alignment/GOTO is not spot on but fun. I tend not to have Pretty Deep Maps running so I can never be sure I have located these guys until I check next day. My shots are with the 15 and for 4 minutes -ish so a brighter image. Without Pretty Deep Maps I do not know where I would go to check them out. I too have been on Lodestar/Ultrastar for similar length of time. I like the 1.25 format of these cameras - makes them ideal for visual Newtonians to enable reaching focus. To me the perfect EEVA camera would be the Ultrastar but with the bigger pixels of the Lodestar (and maybe a slightly bigger chip). 

Look forward to seeing your latest SHKs.

Mike

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try using Aladin Mike it will show you the DSS and other surveys so you can see what they pick up. After all The POSS/DSS is where SHakhbazian found all of them. https://aladin.u-strasbg.fr/aladin.gml

 

You can download to your desktop or run online. DSS, SDSS and PanSTARRS arethe best for visual comparisons.

 

Owen

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