Neil_104 Posted February 11 Share Posted February 11 (edited) So to find the various other objects scattered around my images, I usually trawl through numerous annotated Astrobin images until I fill in all the blanks. But there's a mystery object in my image of M100 that I've not been able to identify yet. It definitely looks non-stellar to me. Does anyone know what this is at the end of the red arrow?? 🤔 Edited February 11 by Neil_104 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul mc c Posted February 11 Share Posted February 11 That's a pic of your scope.... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cornelius Varley Posted February 11 Share Posted February 11 @Neil_104 Please upload the image in either jpg or png format so that it can be viewed in the browser. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil_104 Posted February 11 Author Share Posted February 11 My bad, pic visible now 🙂 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vlaiv Posted February 11 Share Posted February 11 It is galaxy. In SIMBAD database it has following identifier: SDSS J122218.25+154759.2 (from Sloan Digital Sky Survey) It is about 320MLy away (z = 0.0233758) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stu Posted February 11 Share Posted February 11 Vlad beat me to it. I found the galaxy but didn’t know how to find the name. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil_104 Posted February 11 Author Share Posted February 11 Thank you Vlaiv and Stu for confirming it is in fact a galaxy 👍 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elp Posted February 11 Share Posted February 11 Out of interest what are the best systems for finding really out there objects, irregular galaxies etc? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stu Posted February 11 Share Posted February 11 3 minutes ago, Elp said: Out of interest what are the best systems for finding really out there objects, irregular galaxies etc? Pretty sure SIMBAD is the place to go. I couldn’t work out how to label up the galaxies nearby ones I knew the identity of though, obviously @vlaiv knows the secret 👍 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vlaiv Posted February 11 Share Posted February 11 1 minute ago, Stu said: Pretty sure SIMBAD is the place to go. I couldn’t work out how to label up the galaxies nearby ones I knew the identity of though, obviously @vlaiv knows the secret 👍 I went to Aladin lite and found M100 and turned on labels - there is control to the right to select Catalogue Then select target and get info: 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil_104 Posted February 12 Author Share Posted February 12 I may need to use a smaller font for some of these more obscure objects 😂 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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