Hi John,
Thanks for the post.
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Originally Posted by The Mekon
Last night I was observing particularly in Grus and the constellations to the south. After the serious double star and galaxy viewing, to cap the night off I spun the dial to “popular deep sky” The usual suspects were there, 47 Tuc, Helix etc., I then came across “ Southern Integral Sign” – having not heard of this before I was a bit curious as to how a magnificent southern object had escaped my notice. I slewed the scope to its position and ….. nothing. Went to description – Mag 15.3 Galaxy in Indus???? Gary just why is this object on this list? Description also states IC 5173. Googling an image showed a galaxy shaped like the integral sign, but really “popular deep sky”? Is this a fun object just to vex people like me?
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Possibly a better name might have been "nicknamed objects".
Another example is Papillon, which is IC 708. Visually, this 14th mag. galaxy does
not look like a butterfly at all but was so named by radioastronomers because it
has two strands stretching from it at radio wavelengths.
See
http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/f...6A....77..183V
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Aside from this, I have to thank Gary for assisting me fine tune the Argo at the SPSP, a great product with terrific support
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Thank you John. You are more than welcome and we appreciate your support.
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