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Originally Posted by gregbradley
Nice work there Roger. Thanks.
Its interesting there seems to be a class of galaxies that are barred and and elliptical loop around them like the first and last there. Very similar to NGC1291.
Greg.
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Yes, I see a lot like that. A lot which have complete donuts of material too, not necessarily with the bar. It surprises me, and I always want to go back and photograph them in more detail.
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Originally Posted by strongmanmike
That's great Roger, very cool to see, I imagine you have quite a collection of these? I remember reading Burnhams Celestial Handbook volumes with some images like these in it from Palomar et al, when I was younger
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Yeap, that's for sure. I have 2400 NGC's now, many galaxies. My current project is focusing only on galaxies. I have this far flung dream of publishing a modern equivalent of my favorite book of all time, The Colour Atlas of Galaxies. I previously made available my NGC "book" as PDF download and might make that available again in a revised format, I've been using it to select galaxies for imaging this time round, just the purpose it was made for, easily at a glance knowing what good looking stuff is up in the night
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Originally Posted by strongmanmike
By the way, did you receive an email from me regarding a Japanese astronomer looking for somewhere to image from?
Mike
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oh bugger! sorry! yes, and it slipped under the radar!
I will reply ASAP.
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Originally Posted by Shiraz
interesting collection Roger - look forward to seeing more.
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Thanks for the encouragement
