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Best Non-Herschel I & II Objects

Started by Jud, 11/05/2008 08:42PM
Posted 11/05/2008 08:42PM Opening Post
What are your favorite northern Hemisphere Non-Herschel I & II and Non-Messier DSOs? The other day Andreas Saldivar posted an exhaustive list of NGC and other objects observed at Petigrew State Park in NC. Most of the objects were not on either list. Dave Mitsky posts his monthly objects to be viewed. Several are not on the lists. What objects do you consider worthy that are not on the title lists?

A few that come to my mind are NGCs 1042, 1232 and 1291.

Jud Mitchell

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Posted 11/06/2008 12:01AM #1
There is a couple that come to mind that I have looked at many times.

NGC 1, I like it because it is the first on the list. It's mag 12.9 it's fairly easy to see. Once at a very dark site I caught a glimspe of nearby NGC 2 as well.

NGC 6822 Barnards Galaxy. I like looking at local group galaxies. This one is mag 8.8 but it has very low surface brightness. You need a good transparency night. When you get one though, this galaxy can be quite nice.

Andreas

DSOs observed:
NGCs 2005, ICs 103, Other 70, Palomar GCs 6, Abell PNs 12, Herschel 400: 316.
Equipment
Celestron CPC 1100, Lunt 60mm Ha Solar Scope
Posted 11/06/2008 02:07AM | Edited 11/07/2008 04:44AM #2
Some of the best targets not on the herschel list are galaxy pairs/groups. 7332/7339 in Peg, the 383 and 587 groups in northern pisces, and the 5350 group in CVn come to mind. While the beautiful 4216 is in the H400, its companion, 4206, is not--and to my mind the pair together is really fabulous. You might also check the orion deep map 600--many of these are not on the M or H lists, such as 925 in Tri.

Oops! Now I see you mentioned the Herschel II list--several of the above are on that list, e.g., 925 and 7332. Sorry!

--george

George Golitzin