[AZ-Observing] Re: Observing Notes from Friday Night

At 07:24 PM 9/28/2003 EDT, Bill Ferris wrote:

>6960. The other nebulous patch I observed Friday lies between the two major 
>portions, centered roughly at 20h 48.4m, +31d 35m.
>
>This portion of the supernova remnant appears in most wide field photos of 
>the Veil, including several in Burnham's Celestial Handbook. It's featured
in a 
>photo on page 806; stands out prominently in a photo on 800; and is
presented 
>in much the same way as it appears in my 10-inch in the photo on page 809.
>
>Does anyone know of an ID for this patch of nebulosity?


Bill,

That's Pickering's Wedge, Pickering's Triangle, Pickering's Triangular
Wisp, take your pick.  We discussed this on Amastro in May of 2001.  Here
are a couple good messages in the archive, which we make publicly available:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/amastro/message/4603

At the end of that URL, replace 4603 with the nubmers 4599, and 4604
through 4610 for more relevant messages.

Brian Skiff points out that it was not discovered by Pickering, rather, it
was found by Williamina Fleming, but attributed to her boss.

Tom
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