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Originally Posted by Peter Ward
Ah...your link is mucho better. There are soooo many of these faint fuzzies.
I’ve taken pictures of dozens of them that simply are not catalogued...but when I asked the professionals as to whether I could lay claim to a “discovery” they answered, at Mag 21, unless they are interesting...meh! There are millions we haven’t listed...So what? 
BTW....anyone else imaged this (somewhat drab looking ) eliptical galaxy? |
This is the ONLY amateur image of this region and it is by far the deepest. The only professional images are that of DSS and are limited at about Mag 19.5. I one night after fiddling with my scope I just decided to grab it and point it at the deepest darkest patch of sky that was going to go over zenith and went to bed. PGC 9408 just happened to randomly be near the centre of frame.