Thanks Steve...ouch a big time typo! Yes it was 7230!
Thanks,
Alvin
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Subject: [TAC] Stephan's Quintet (was Re: OR 09-05-04 IHOP)
Alvin,
I believe it is NGC 7230 which is the nearby member of the Quintet. I
wrote a sidebar on observing Stephan's Quintet for the next issue of
S&T (November) which is part of a feature article on the evolution of
the Quintet (and compact groups). The draft of the article is very
interesting, so stay tuned...
Steve
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On Sep 7, 2004, at 7:13 PM, Alvin Huey wrote:
> Decided to re-observe Hickson 92 and get a better view of the "fifth"
> true member of the "quartet", NGC 7230C. This member is a very small
> and faint compared to the other five members. Just a note, NGC 7317
is
> not a true member of this very compact cluster of galaxies, but rather
> an optical member. NGC 7317 lies "only" 42 million light years away
> and
> 6.5 times closer than the rest of the quintet. In fact, NGC 7317 is a
> member of the nearby NGC 7331 group, a beautiful spiral galaxy about
> half degree north.
Received on Wed Sep 8 21:03:40 2004