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Ten Targets

Posted by steve_hill on March 22, 2014
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Many thanks to Bob Mizon for his entertaining and educational talk.  Several members requested that we make the list of ten targets for light-polluted astronomers available, so here goes:

Object Type Where Finder
NGC752 Open Cluster Andromeda Track right from the base of triangulum
Gamma Andromedae Double Star with high colour contrast Andromeda Last bright star in Andromeda moving up from Pegasus
Kemble’s Cascade

The Wristwatch and NGC1502

Asterism; star chain and includes an open cluster Camelopardus Find Perseus then extend a line Algol to Mirphak by approx 1.5 the distance
h3945 Optical (line of sight) double with high colour contrast Canis Majoris Find Sirius.  Track down to delta (Wezen).  The double is up and left from there.
Y Canum Venaticorum

La Superba

HIP62223

Red star Canes Venatici Approx halfway between Cor Caroli and Phad (in the Plough)
NGC457

The Owl (Stick Man)

Open Cluster Cassiopeia Extend line from epsilon to delta by about half again.
R and T Coronae Borealis Variable stars Corona Borealis Star chart recommended
Sigma Draconis Star with high apparent velocity (2.3″ per year) Draco Near epsilon
Stock 4 Open Cluster Perseus Find double cluster and use a pointer — 7 degrees away on same declination
NGC7331 Sc Spiral Galaxy with off-centre nucleus Pegasus Consult a star chart

 

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