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Originally Posted by Peter Ward
The object does show up in a SIMBAD search of your co-ordinates (attached)
When I did the search however, it returned 900 objects in a 1/4 degree
space.
As to which one it was....I have no idea.
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Peter. as found now, it has a name, difficult to find though not surprised you didnt casually find it, was random on my part.
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Originally Posted by AdamJL
Good detective skills there, Batman 
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Was obvious in hindsight, but without the other post in astrometry.com post I would have no idea. Whatever the N catalog its not in mainstream apps it seems. I also have The Sky, but its such an unintuitive difficult exercise adding catalogs I gave up years ago.
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Originally Posted by Finbar
Ah. Thanks for the astrometry.net mention. Not being an astrophotographer I was unfamiliar with it, but searched there for NGC 1711 etc and these two (and more) images did come up.
https://nova.astrometry.net/user_ima...1394#annotated
https://nova.astrometry.net/user_ima...3729#annotated
and so led to this
https://astrodonimaging.com/gallery/n185-nebula/
which has some interesting info.
Now, back to work, again. Me, that is.
By the way - for months now we've rarely had more than a few minutes between clouds to glimpse anything, and most nights it's nothing but cloud and rain. Not even the moon gets through. The butterflies on the other hand are going gangbusters in my garden.
Oops - edit to add:
Now I look again, I see we found the same page, and I have exactly the same question.
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Yes, you found that exactly the same time I did, sorry for you miss so much work. Im retired, my time is suddenly valuless