NGC 6608 (also MCG 10-26-24 and PGC 61556) is a magnitude +15.1 spiral galaxy located 309 million light-years away in the constellation Draco. The galaxy was discovered by American astronomer Lewis A. Swift using a 40.6 cm (16 inch) Alvan Clark and Sons refractor at the Warner Observatory, East Ave...
NGC 6609 (also MCG 10-26-25 and PGC 61559) is a magnitude +14.5 spiral galaxy located 374 million light-years away in the constellation Draco. The galaxy was discovered by American astronomer Lewis A. Swift using a 40.6 cm (16 inch) Alvan Clark and Sons refractor at the Warner Observatory, East Ave...
NGC 6768 (also NGC 6768-1, ESO 337-18, MCG -7-39-10 and PGC 62997) is a magnitude +12.2 elliptical galaxy located 256 million light-years away in the constellation Corona Australis. The galaxy was discovered by British astronomer John Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) f/13 speculum reflectin...
NGC 6783 (also MCG 8-35-7 and PGC 63003) is a magnitude +14.4 compact galaxy located 416 million light-years away in the constellation Cygnus. The galaxy was discovered by French astronomer Édouard Stephan using a 80.01 cm (31.5 inch) reflector at the Marseille Observatory on the 4th August 1872....
NGC 7601 (also IRAS 23162+0857, MCG 1-59-39, UGC 12487 and PGC 71022) is a magnitude +14.0 face-on barred spiral galaxy located 370 million light-years away in the constellation Pegasus. The galaxy was discovered by British amateur astronomer Andrew Ainslie Common using a 91.44 cm (36 inch) refl...
Handstitched photomosaic captured with a 100mm refractor and webcam. Two panel photomosaic of new sunspots 12133 and 12134 (lower) captured with a 100mm F5 Helios refractor and Vesta pro webcam + solar filter. Three panel photomosaic captured with a 100mm refractor and webcam. Microsoft ICE use...
Lindow Man, also known as Lindow II and (in jest) as Pete Marsh, is the preserved bog body of a man discovered in a peat bog at Lindow Moss near Wilmslow in Cheshire, North West England. The body was found on 1 August 1984 by commercial peat-cutters. Read more [video=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=...
The 51 - 110 metre wide asteroid 2008 EP7 will make a close pass (51.2 lunar distances, 0.1316 AU), travelling at 10.88 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 4th August 2014 @ 10:53 UT ±22:53. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.0025...
A large meteor event was detected infrasonically approximately (51°S, 24°E) 1,100 kilometres west-south-west of the Prince Edward Islands by a U.S. government instrument network designed to detect atmospheric explosions on August 3, 1963. the August 3, 1963 bolide detected infrasonically n...
Asteroid (1000) Piazzia is a main-belt asteroid, discovered on the 12th August 1923. It was the 1000th minor planet to be numbered, and was named in honour of Giuseppe Piazzi, who discovered the first asteroid, 1 Ceres. Read more
Orbital elements:
2011 ST232 Earth MOID = 0.1457 AU
Epoch 2011 Aug. 27.0 TT = JDT 2455800.5 MPC
M 21.44040 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.33119132 Peri. 336.23024 +0.62164270 +0.78310776
a 2.0689504 Node 332.19639 -0.71255297 +0.55613320
e 0.4393712 Incl. 2.13726 -0.32531311 +0.27831297
P 2.98 H 21.1...
NGC 27 (also IRAS 00079+2843, MCG 5-1-44, UGC 96 and PGC 742) is a magnitude +14.5 spiral galaxy located 299 ±15 million light-years away in the constellation Andromeda. The galaxy was discovered by American astronomer Lewis A. Swift using a 40.6 cm (16 inch) Alvan Clark and Sons refractor at the War...
NGC 164 (also MCG 0-2-89 and PGC 2181) is a magnitude +15.8 face-on spiral galaxy located in the constellation Pisces. The galaxy was discovered by German astronomer Albert Marth using a 121.92 cm (48 inch) reflector in Malta on the 3rd August 1864. Right Ascension 00h 36m 32.9s, Declination +02° 45...
NGC 1702 (also ESO 56-SC8) is a magnitude +12.5 open cluster in the Large Magellanic Cloud located in the constellation Mensa. The cluster was discovered by Scottish astronomer James Dunlop using a homemade 9-foot 22.86 cm (9 inch) f/12 speculum Newtonian reflector at Paramatta, New South Wales,...
