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["Jones, Jack (AZ75)" <jack.jones@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Glad to hear from a real galaxy cluster fan! Good report, you'll be in the
magazines as a regular soon with that style of writing. One question, on NGC
2768, what do you mean 'the galaxy is centered'?

Jack

> 
> 
> The last few nights have been clear and crisp in northern 
> Arizona. Tuesday 
> night, I made the 15-mile drive to Anderson Mesa, Lowell 
> Observatory's dark sky 
> site southeast of Flagstaff, for a short observing session. 
> Two hours later, 
> I'd made observations and sketches of NGC 2742, NGC 2768, NGC 
> 2841 (all three 
> are Herschel 400 objects), and the galaxy cluster involving 
> NGC 2767, NGC 2769 
> and NGC 2771. All can be found in Ursa Major, the great bear, 

NGC 2768 (http://members.aol.com/billferris/n2768.html )
I observed this 9.8 magnitude elliptical galaxy in my 10-inch Newtonian at 
129X. The galaxy is centered and covers an area of 2'.5x2'. The faint outer 
region is lost against the night sky. NGC 2768 features a bright stellaring
at the 
core and is elongated along an east-west line. A 10th magnitude star shines 
about 5' due north. A star of similar brightness is seen 4' to the
northwest. 
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