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Originally Posted by PeterM
Steve that is great news indeed. Still a bit puzzled on how you became a co-discoverer and not an independent discoverer. Either way its fab and aside from your eagle eyes your determination to follow this up is to be applauded.
Making a discovery in amateur astronomy is NOT easy. It requires not only equipment, knowledge and know how but also reference material that will allow you to check your images against and determination to see it through as demonstrated here.
I sincerely applaud you on this great news, well deserved Steve. And thank goodness we will see it in Aust Sky & Tel I would have been seriously pd off it it wasn't.
VVCL001 is fine for the official catalogues however following on from popular names like "Ruby Crucis" "Murrel1" a popular name would be nice. So what's it to be....
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Thanks Peter. I think that co discovery is fair even though I may have spotted the cluster before the professionals. Don't forget that the real discovery is that this thing was a globular and I was extremely lucky it happened to be in the same field as UKS1 otherwise I would never have seen it. Anyone could have done this - you just have to be imaging in the right place at the right time. I don't know about popular names - apparently none of the recently discovered clusters (all IR as far has I know) have popular names.
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Originally Posted by Peter Ward
Maaatee! That is sub-zero cool and congratulations! A very worthy recognition of your considerable efforts.
(I also recall your deep image of Omega Cent revealing rarely documented MW galaxy cirrus )
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Thanks Peter. As I just said to the other Peter, anyone could have done this. You just have to be in the right place at the right time. Yes I remember the Omega Centauri image. At least I got an APOD for that one.
