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NGC 904 (also MCG 4-6-24, UGC 1852 and PGC 9112) is a magnitude +13.6 elliptical galaxy located 246 million light years away in the constellation Aries. The galaxy was discovered by French astronomer Edouard Jean-Marie Stephan using a 80.01 cm (31.5 inch) reflector at the Marseille Observatory on...

NGC 935 (also Arp 276, MCG 3-7-15, UGC 1937 and PGC 9388) is a magnitude +12.9 spiral galaxy located 190 million light-years away in the constellation Aries. The galaxy is interacting with the magnitude +13.2 spiral galaxy IC 1801. The galaxy was discovered by American astronomer Lewis A. Swift usi...

NGC 1164 (also IRAS 02587+4223, MCG 7-7-16, UGC 2490 and PGC 11441) is a magnitude +13.1 face-on barred spiral galaxy located 192 million light-years away in the constellation Perseus. The galaxy was discovered by British astronomer John Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) f/13 speculum reflect...

NGC 7550 (also Arp 99, MCG 3-59-15, UGC 12456 and PGC 70830) is a magnitude +12.2 elliptical galaxy located 233 million light-years away in the constellation Pegasus. With NGC 7549 it is catalogued as Arp 99. The galaxy was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel using a 47.5 cm (1...

NGC 7578 is a pair of galaxies located in the constellation Pegasus. NGC 7578A (also Arp 170, MCG 3-59-24, UGC 12477 and PGC 70933) is a magnitude +13.9 spiral galaxy located 554 million light-years away. NGC 7578B (also Arp 170, MCG 3-59-25, UGC 12478 and PGC 70934) is a magnitude +14.0 elliptical ga...

Rosslyn Chapel was haven for bees An ancient chapel has revealed a new mystery with the discovery of a 600-year-old hive built into the stones. Builders renovating Rosslyn Chapel, which was made famous in The Da Vinci Code, found the "unprecedented" hive while dismantling a rooftop pin...

Meteorites No historical meteorite falls today, AFAIK

The 47 - 110 metre wide asteroid 2014 QV169 will make a close pass (73.2 lunar distances, 0.1882 AU), travelling at 5.89 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 18th September 2014 @ 20:56 UT ±00:36. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0...

Drift Alignment Drift Alignment, like ALL polar alignment techniques, is used to get the polar axis of your telescope parallel with the polar axis of the Earth. Nothing more; nothing less. It's just that it's done by watching selected stars 'drift' in Declination while viewing them. From the ty...

International Meteor Conference 2014 September 18 - 21, Giron - France http://www.imo.net/imc2014/

Northeast China's Liaoning province will hold a ceremony on September 18 to commemorate the "Mukden Incident" which marks the beginning of the 14-year war against Japan. Source

Witnesses see apparent meteor light up Boulder skies It might have been the size of a pea, or maybe as big as a football. Still, streaking across the Boulder skies late Tuesday night, it made quite an impression on those who saw it. Trevor Ycas, who live in the Martin Acres neighborhood, was lounging in...

Violent Origins of Disc Galaxies Probed by ALMA For decades scientists have believed that galaxy mergers usually result in the formation of elliptical galaxies. Now, for the the first time, researchers using ALMA and a host of other radio telescopes have found direct evidence that merging galaxi...

ATel #6460; ASAS-SN Discovery of A Possible Supernova in NGC 1566

Meteorites The Tomatlan (H6) meteorite fell in Jalisco, Mexico, on thhttp://astronomy.activeboard.com/t45033895/tomatlan-meteorite/