NGC 2228 (also ESO 87-7, FAIR 249, DRCG 50-89 and PGC 18862) is a magnitude +13.6 lenticular galaxy located 334 million light-years away in the constellation Dorado. The galaxy was discovered by British astronomer John Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) reflecting telescope at Feldhausen, Cla...
NGC 2241 (also ESO 57-SC79) is a magnitude +13.3 open cluster located in the constellation Dorado. The cluster was discovered by British astronomer John Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) reflecting telescope at Feldhausen, Claremont, Cape Town, on the 31st January 1835. Right Ascension 06h 2...
NGC 2297 (also ESO 87-40, FAIR 256, IRAS 06440-6339 and PGC 19524) is a magnitude +12.6 barred spiral galaxy located 156 million lightyears away in the constellation Pictor. The galaxy was discovered by British astronomer John Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) reflecting telescope at Feldhaus...
NGC 2327 (also CED 89B) is a magnitude +14.7 emission nebula (the remnants of a supernova) located 3800 light years away in the constellation Canis Major. The nebula was discovered by German-British William Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) reflecting telescope at Datchet, Berkshire, on the 31...
NGC 2348 (also ESO 88-SC1) is a magnitude +12.4 open cluster located 3490 light-years away in the constellation Volans. The cluster was discovered by British astronomer John Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) reflecting telescope at Feldhausen, Claremont, Cape Town, on the 31st January 1835....
NGC 2510 (also UGC 4178, MCG 2-21-7, ZWG 59.23, and PGC 22541) is a magnitude +13.5 lenticular galaxy located 189.82 million light-years away in the constellation Canis Minor. The galaxy was discovered by Anglo-Irish astronomer William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse, using a 182.88 cm (72 inch) refl...
NGC 2511 (also MCG 2-21-8, MK 1207, ZWG 59.24 and PGC 22549) is a magnitude +14.3 spiral galaxy located 209.71 million light-years away in the constellation Canis Minor. The galaxy was discovered by Anglo-Irish astronomer William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse, using a 182.88 cm (72 inch) reflecting t...
Orbital elements:
2011 WL15 PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0452 AU
Epoch 2011 Aug. 27.0 TT = JDT 2455800.5 MPC
M 104.30897 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.62677339 Peri. 171.12964 -0.43059885 +0.85020741
a 1.3522667 Node 72.88159 -0.84629117 -0.26372941
e 0.2849491 Incl. 18.47631 -0.31364929 -0.45562502
P 1.57 H...
ATel 5831: ASAS-SN Discovery of Luminous Transient in SDSS J110840.11+340552.2 During the ongoing All Sky Automated Survey for SuperNovae (ASAS-SN or "Assassin"), using data from the quadruple 14-cm "Brutus" telescope in Haleakala, Hawaii, we discovered a new transie...
A new map of the solar system's asteroids shows more diversity than previously thought. To get an idea of how the early solar system may have formed, scientists often look to asteroids. These relics of rock and dust represent what today's planets may have been before they differentiated into bodies...
NASA Observes Day of Remembrance Jan. 31 NASA will pay will tribute to the crews of Apollo 1 and space shuttles Challenger and Columbia, as well as other NASA colleagues, during the agency's Day of Remembrance on Friday, Jan. 31. NASA's Day of Remembrance honors members of the NASA family who lost the...
On several days each year, the sun sets in alignment with the Infinite Corridor and shines along its entire length. This is known as "MIThenge", a reference to Stonehenge's alignment with the sun (although the type of alignment bears a closer relationship with that of Newgrange and Maes...
The Tanganyika laughter epidemic of 1962 was an outbreak of mass hysteria - or mass psychogenic illness (MPI) - rumored to have occurred in or near the village of Kashasha on the western coast of Lake Victoria in the modern nation of Tanzania (formerly Tanganyika) near the border of Kenya. Read more [...
Orbital elements: 2008 CM20 Earth MOID = 0.0844 AU Epoch 2011 Feb. 8.0 TT = JDT 2455600.5 MPC M 334.15633 (2000.0) P Q n 0.66021578 Peri. 226.47477 -0.95479443 -0.07674054 a 1.3062073 Node 307.00607 +0.23467948 -0.78758831 e 0.2230803 Incl. 21.07750 -0.18246409 -0.61140456 P 1.49 H 21.0 G 0.15 U 2...
