The Heart of Virgo

Dillon, Dillon, & Kuh (mavericks@No-Spam)
Sat, 29 Apr 1999 00:51:52 -0700

Aperture wins once again. We'll see what experience will do, having been
thru Markarian's chain 3x ever now, this month.

But with an 11", 4387, in the middle of the triangle with M84, M86 and
4388, was clear at the outset, i.e., "Look, there's a little one in the
middle there."

Out at the end of the chain, 4459 was in fact easy, and 4474 was there to
direct vision. But Jay your other two off the end going E, 4446-7, I had no
hint of.

Now they're not charted in SkyAtlas, so maybe life can imitate art next
time I go looking. 4468 is the other fuzzy you mentioned out there at the
end I haven't yet found.

Just using SkyAtlas and Dickinson's, I've spotted 35 galaxies between 6 Com
and rho Vir and have 9 left to find. Some cluster. Radiant, humble.

G'night

Jamie Dillon <mavericks@No-Spam> <http://www.winepress.com/jd1.htm>

"Scattering me amidst the countless stars
You gathered me up again in your lap..."
- from a poem by Rabindrinath Tagore


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