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Old 18-05-2009, 01:48 PM
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Jaws

Hi Andrew & All,

The star-group you have drawn is sometimes known as "jaws" because in a medium-sized 'scope it has a superficial resemblance to a shark seen side-on.

You can read more about it here:

http://www.backyard-astro.com/deepsky/top100/15.html

and here:

http://www.deep-sky.co.uk/asterisms.htm

Attached is a Megastar map with a Realsky (digitised sky survey) overlay which shows its position in relation to M104. The object you have specifically circled is a 13th mag star:

GSC 5531:1441 STAR
RA: 12h 38m 29.05s Dec: -11° 32' 53.0"
Pos err: 0.4 arcsec Mag: 13.0 / 0.3

The USNO A2 provides the fololowing catalogue data:

0750-07905586
RA 12 38 29.13 Dec -11 32 53.0
Mag 13.05

You can see a mouse-over skymap of M104 and surrounds here:

http://www.sky-map.org/?ra=12.651297...mg_source=DSS2


Hope that helps.


Best,

Les D
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