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Old 31-08-2009, 05:38 PM
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Originally Posted by citivolus View Post
An interesting object, which it would seem is hard to find information on. I guess I could do a plate solve to get image scale

Based on the exposure time and aperture used, the lack of information available on the object would be explainable.

Edit: http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/si...=SIMBAD+search , very vague
According to my tattered Sky Catalogue 2000.0 book this object which doesn't even have a name but is located at the correct co-ordinates is 7 arcminutes in diameter which looks about right for my cropped 40 X 27 arcminute FOV.

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Steven
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