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Old 29-09-2008, 12:34 PM
Dennis
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USNO website for star charts down to 21 mag.

Hello,

In trying to establish the faintest magnitude stars on my Nereid 20 min sub frames, I located a USNO website where you can enter the RA and DEC coordinates and obtain a chart of stars down to around 21 mag.

Having done this, I think that I may have candidate stars of fainter than 20 mag on my Nereid image. These are identified by the letters A & B in the attached files.

I write candidate as you can also see some speckles elsewhere in the cropped frame that are just noise and not “real” objects. Who knows?

Cheers

Dennis
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