NGC 2653 is a magnitude +10.9 double star located 6490 light-years (?) away in the constellation Camelopardalis. The double star was discovered by German astronomer Wilhelm Tempel using a 27.94 cm (11 inch) f/19 refracting telescope at the Arcetri Observatory on the 18th August 1882. Right Ascen...
NGC 2654 (also IRAS 08451+6024, MCG 10-13-17, UGC 4605 and PGC 24784) is a magnitude +11.8 edge-on spiral galaxy located 64.9 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major. The galaxy was discovered by German astronomer Wilhelm Tempel using a 27.94 cm (11 inch) f/19 refracting telesco...
NGC 2685 (also Helix Galaxy, Arp 336, IRAS 08517+5855, MCG 10-13-39, UGC 4666 and PGC 25065) is a magnitude +11.3 lenticular and polar-ring galaxy located 42 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major. The galaxy was discovered by German astronomer Wilhelm Tempel using a 27.94 cm (1...
NGC 6578 (also ESO 590-12 and PK 10-11) is a magnitude +12.5 planetary nebula located 7830 light-years away in the constellation Sagittarius. The planetary nebula was discovered by American astronomer Edward Charles Pickering using a 38.1 cm (15 inch) refractor at the Harvard College Observat...
NGC 6904 is a magnitude +11.9 open star cluster located in the constellation Vulpecula. The cluster was discovered by British astronomer John Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) f/13 speculum reflecting telescope at Windsor Road in Slough, Berkshire, on the 18th August 1828. Right Ascension 20...
NGC 7040 (also IRAS 21108+0839, MCG 1-54-4, UGC 11701 and PGC 66366) is a magnitude +14.0 face-on spiral galaxy located 281 million light-years away in the constellation Equuleus. The galaxy was discovered by American astronomer Mark Walrod Harrington using a 31.75 cm (12.5 inch) Fitz refracto...
NGC 7043 (also MCG 2-54-14, UGC 11704 and PGC 66385) is a magnitude +13.7 barred spiral galaxy located 227 million light-years away in the constellation Pegasus. The galaxy was discovered by German astronomer Albert Marth using a 121.92 cm (48 inch) reflector at William Lassell's observatory in...
Albert Marth (May 5, 1828 - August 6, 1897) was a German astronomer. Shortly after 1855, Albert Marth accept a position at the Durham University Observatory, Potters Bank, Durham, succeeding Georg Rümker as assistant to Tempel Chevallier. After working a few years as an assistant to English astro...
Title: A deep mosaic of (O III) 5007 A CCD images of the environment of the LBV star P Cygni
Authors: P. Boumis (1), J. Meaburn (1,2), M. P. Redman (3), F. Mavromatakis (4) ((1) Institute of Astronomy & Astrophysics, National Observatory of Athens, Greece, (2) Jodrell Bank Obse...
Stanislav Maticic within the PIKA (Comet and Asteroid Search Program) at the Crni Vrh Observatory (Slovenia) discovered a stellar looking object with an unusual orbit on CCD images taken with the 0.6-m f/3.3 telescope, on August 18, 2008. Hermann M...
Orbital elements:
2014 OO6 Earth MOID = 0.0003 AU
Epoch 2014 May 23.0 TT = JDT 2456800.5 MPC
M 317.54953 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.32044832 Peri. 287.91958 +0.78091544 -0.62428842
a 2.1149368 Node 110.71565 +0.58120214 +0.71397460
e 0.6653855 Incl. 1.27776 +0.22885616 +0.31702403
P 3.08 H 23.2 G 0...
The 200 - 460 metre wide asteroid 2014 PR62 made a close pass (51.4 lunar distances, 0.1321 AU), travelling at 6.48 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 13th August 2014 @ 18:57 UT ±00:54. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 A...
Title: A close-in companion to HD142384 Author: J.-B. Le Bouquin I report the detection of a companion around HD142384 from Optical Long Baseline Interferometry in the near-infrared (flux difference DeltaH~4 and separation ~20mas). HD142384 has been used as PSF reference for published observ...
Title: On the Spectroscopic Properties of the Retired A Star HD 185351 Author: Luan Ghezzi, José Dias do Nascimento, John Asher Johnson Doppler-based planet surveys have shown that, besides metallicity, the planet occurrence is also correlated with stellar mass, increasing from M to F-A spectr...