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Old 27-11-2008, 05:35 PM
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A P O D 17/11

Today's APOD shows the Dunlop galaxy D600 = NGC 1532. The image was made by Robert Gendler.
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ima...32_gendler.jpg
Dunlop described it as " An extremely faint ill-defined nebula, rather elongated in the direction of the meridian, gradually a little brighter towards the centre." He discovered four galaxies on 29/10/1826, NGCs 1487, 1512, 1532 and 2090. Not a bad effort for one night with a 9" speculum mirror. http://astroprofspage.com/archives/1229

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