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Old 14-05-2008, 03:00 AM
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4th image - Omega Centauri is another of my favourites, so when scanning down the "common name" column of the target list when I saw it I clicked on submit straight away. If you look at the image result there is no sign of Omega Centauri there at all ... reason being that the actual "Designation" column lists NGC 5193 whereas Omega Cent is actually NGC 5139 ... so what I have instead if an image of a tiny 13th mag galaxy (a binary galaxy apparently) as seen here, and yes you can see the 2 of them if you look really closely).

So this one was down to a bad typo on the target list, I fully suspect it was always supposed to be OmegaCent and the NGC number was the mistake.
This wasn't the only mistake on the list, the Carina Nebula and listed NGC number didn't correspond either.

This is STILL a very good quality picture indeed!
However again I'll mention that those who will eventually pay to use this service will want images of the objects that they have selected.
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