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- From: Eric Steinberg <eric@xxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2014 21:35:55 +0000
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On Sun, Jul 06, 2014 at 1:04 PM, David M. Douglass
<dmdouglass@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:dmdouglass@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
Howdy Howard (and everyone else too...)
One of my favorite "haunts" is a website called Messier45.com
http://www.messier45.com/index.html#s/Archinal
I googled Archinal 1 and found a "partial" page at:
http://deepskypedia.com/wiki/Template:Archinal_1
It did not have a lot of info, but did have coordinates:
18:54:49 / +05:32.9
Messier45.com listed the exact same coordiates, and provided an image.
I went to TheSkyX Pro, and entered the coordinates, and produced the same image.
AND.... it matches Jimmy's image with the target dead center.
David M. Douglass
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Sent: Sunday, July 6, 2014 11:27 AM
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Subject: [AZ-Observing] Re: Archinal 1
Hi Jimmy,
Intriguing!
I "moused around" in two different browsers and nothing happened.
I finally found this: http://www.astrodwarf.com/deep-sky/detail/8215
which says coordinates of Archinal 1 are:
RIGHT ASCENSION: 18h 54m 32.82s
DECLINATION: 5° 33â² 68.4â³
Nova.astrometry.net says the center of your image is precisely:
Center (RA, hms): 18h 54m 54.692s
Center (Dec, dms): +05° 31' 33.062"
and that the orientation of your image is this:
Orientation: Up is 103 degrees E of N
so you are right on the money.
I think you might indeed have the first posted image of this area!
I wonder how somebody decided that was a "cluster?"
There is an almost better candidate of 5 slightly brighter tightly grouped
stars to the left.
Thanks,
Howard
Jimmy Ray wrote:
>Several years ago (like back when the C8 was my "big" telescope) AJ Crayon
>published one of his monthly installments of "Call for Observations". On the
>list from a now long forgotten month and year was a bunch of different little
>sky gems including an open cluster simply identified as "Archinal 1". With it
>came some nebulous statement reminiscent of those highway signs leading down
>to Benson about "the THING?" generally stating "can you see it?" Needing an
>observing list for the upcoming weekend at Cherry road, I took it along.
>
>Things were going well until I slewed to this said "Archinal 1". Expecting a
>cluster (thatâs what AJ said it was) I found nothing. I checked all the
>coordinates, slewed and panned back and forth revealed lots of nice grouping
>of stars but nothing that was a "slap me in the face" star cluster. After
>Richard Harshaw pointed out how small (1.5') and dim (brightest star is 13.5
>mag) it was. I spent the next 90 minutes under a hood peering into the
>blackness but the best I could do was to get a couple of stars in the vicinity
>that I felt might be candidates.
>
>Over the years that followed, this small cluster has never been far from my
>observing list anytime Serpens Cauda is in the sky. Why? "Because it's there!"
>Just like some folks always slew to things like Albireo when Cygnes is up, for
>me it has always been a little challenge object I like to observe. This last
>week I decided to snap an image of it from the light polluted skies here in
>Glendale. One, just to do it and two as Brent (Archinal) once said he could
>not recall that any amateur had ever done it.
>
>So below, well off the beaten path of Astro-imaging superstars like the Orion
>nebula, the horse head and such, with bloated stars, amp glow, hot pixels,
>artifacts and all, I give you "Archinal 1"
>
>https://plus.google.com/photos/109017438099253423184/albums/51883763419
>80760657/6032640644182622210?sort=1&pid`32640644182622210&oid90174
>38099253423184
>
>
>Where is it you ask? Mouse around, it'll make itself known when you hit
>it and no, the bright star in the circular frame is not part of it.
>Next time you're out under dark skies you might want to look it up. For
>me, I just hope Brent doesn't fine Archinal "2" but if he does I'm sure
>it will be on the list ;-)
>
>Jimmy
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