24-10-2008, 02:40 PM
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Its only a column of dust
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: New Iceland
Posts: 761
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Rob_K
NGC1533, mag 11.7 – Not sure what happened here. My notes say it was clear though small and dim, and very edge-on. This doesn’t seem to tie in with the shape Starry Night showed when I checked later. Possible that I saw a different one, don’t know 
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I just checked this one out on skymap.org, and it appears there is bright central bar enveloped in a fainter circular haze. You would've been seeing the bright bar, hence the 'edge on' appearance.
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