[Chaos-l] Nu DRA and asterism...

[Jon Stewart-Taylor]

On Jun 21, 2010, at 1:56 PM, Terry Crook wrote:

>
> FWIW, there appears to be a faint/distant spiral galaxy directly to  
> the left of the lowest star of the threesome & below the arc of  
> faint stars.
> Any guesses as to how far this Deep Field object is?
>
> Taurus Terry in Chapel Hill
> 35° 55' 47"N, 79° 01' 00"W


Actually, when you zoom this image and pan it around, there's lots of  
itty-bitty galaxies scattered around, including two bracketed by the  
left-hand diffraction spikes, and one impaled on the upper-right-hand  
spike.

However, my (1987) edition of Sky Atlas 2000 doesn't show any galaxies  
at all in that vicinity, so they're almost certainly not NGC  
objects.   Maybe somebody with a deeper reference can help.  The FAQ  
for the DSS may also shed some light:

    http://archive.stsci.edu/dss/faq.html

giving you a (tedious) way to find something about the LM of the plate  
the image was taken from.

Sorry not to be more help.

J.
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