Quote:
Originally Posted by Rob_K
Great report pgc hunter, like the HH obs! 
Re your query, if the 'star' is the one in attached pic (7176 with cross), then it's two essentially super-imposed stars, the brighter of which is USNO-B1.0 0580-1062422. Vis magnitude don’t know, although if I loaded enough catalogues no doubt I’d find out! B1=15.57, B2=15.38, R1=14.29, R2=15.38, I=14.36 given. Dim anyway!
Info & DSS pic from Aladin.
Cheers - |
Thanks Rob! Yep that's the star I saw. Are the B and R values the red and blue magnitudes? I use wikisky to get the star magnitudes, but this particular one it just gives a bogus "99.9". The star USNOA2 0525-43607731 to the ENE of the one in question in your image appears to be almost the same brightness, according to Wikisky that one is Mag 15.6 so I'm assuming it'll be within a couple of tenths of that.
Btw, the galaxy you've crossed is NGC 7173.