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I hope that the object near IC 223 turns out to be a "true" Voorwerp. It sure does look like a Voorwerp.
Real true Voorwerps are caused, it is believed, by a recently extinct quasar that has caused the gas in the Voorwerp to glow.
Certainly, my object has already turned out to be interesting enough for it to be investigated further by professional astronomers.
(incidentally, "Voorwerp" is just Dutch for the word "object")
Peter's point about the availability of virtual telescopes which can display images of much of the sky at various wavelengths, is a good one.
My initial impression about the GALEX far-ultraviolet images that are so easily displayed in GalexView, is that this UV imagery has hardly been mined, as yet, especially for southern sky fields.
(I am hanging out for sky southern sky imagery by the VISTA and SkyMapper projects...VISTA, in particular, will provide the first high resolution southern sky survey)
More later, but must get offline now.....
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