Recent Observations
Herewith, a database of every observation I’ve ever made, most recent first! Click for more detail, or on the page links at the bottom to review more, 12 at a time, in descending chronological order…
Arp 172 / IC 1178 & 1181
What it looks like when two galaxies “dance”
Arp 175 / IC 3481 & 3483
An early contributor to Arp’s red-shift unorthodoxy
Sh2-86 / NGC 6820-23
An obscure, relatively faint Sharpless object with echos of the Rosette Nebula
IC 1284 / NGC 6589 et al
Star birthing next to the Small Sagittariius Star Cloud (M24).
M71 / Angelfish Cluster
The loosest Globular Cluster in the Messier catalogue does resemble an angelfish.
Barnard 110
Dark nebulae — not to be confused with dark matter — are the stuff that seed new stars.
Sh2-54 / Serpents Nebula
An obscure corner of the same nebulosity that brings you the Eagle and Omega nebulae
Sh2-132 / The Lion Nebula
Extremely faint, challenging emission nebula.
Arp 122 / NGC 6040
A dim, face-on spiral merging with and warping a larger, edge-on spiral
Arp 103 | Zwicky’s Triplet
The filament’s the thing.
Hickson Compact Group 78
A fun and challenging cluster of galaxies of apparent magnitude 15 or so.
Arp 272 / NGC 6050 / IC 1179
Three galaxies, not just two.