[AZ-Observing] Re: December Report from Hovatter Norte
- From: Jack Jones <telescoper@xxxxxxx>
- To: az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2009 02:54:30 -0700
A fine sentiment but I don't know if that's going to be possible! The silly
things are everywhere. Come in handy for ID purposes too. I couldn't tell
you the NGC # for the 'Silver Dollar' galaxy or the 'California' Nebula or
even that Blinking Planetary, which doesn't even blink if you don't have the
right size telescope. Maybe partially blame Walter Scott Houston for
cultivating the name game?
Jack
L Knauth wrote:
>
> Moving to the young, beautiful cluster NGC 457, I decided to see if my
> own Rorschach impression would duplicate the owl, kachina doll,
> dragonfly, or ET patterns others celebrate for this one. Indeed, I saw
> the eyes, the nose, ….but then a beard…. whoa! It’s Jesus! Or,.....
> wait! …is it… instead, …..Willie Nelson? At which point, I decided to
> never rorschach any astronomical object ever again. Burnham notes
> that the bright star, Phi Cass, is one of the most luminous stars known,
> and that the Sun would be 17th magnitude at this distance. The contrast
> between this blazing star and the faintest in the cluster field that
> would represent the Sun really brought this cluster to astrophysical life
> for me. Much more inspiring than silly pattern nonsense. Let’s delete
> all these stupid names for our wonderful deep sky objects!
>
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