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03-04-2008, 5:22 PM skelleywa Joined on 05-23-2005 Posts 48 Saturday Night Challenge Joe and I were checking out some objects at my house after our public outing at the Greenway. We had about 25 - 35 members of the public at the Green-Way invited out at the morning free TAS planetarium show. WE had to dodge some clouds but it was OK. We were galaxy hopping with the Mallin Cam and Joe said, lets see if we can find the Palomar 4 that was featured in the Deep Sky Wonders section of the April Sky and Telescope. Palomar 4 is a 14.5 magnitude globular cluster. The 2nd furthest known at 356,000 lys. Joe read the RA and Dec. coordinates while I entered them. It took two tries because it was so dim that it could not be seen until the cam accululated for 14 seconds and we thought we missed the coordintes on the first try. After we got the same FOV on the second try we accumulated to 14 seconds and there it was, a small circular object estimated to be 1 to 2' given the FOV is about 20' with the set up we had. Can see why the S&T author had trouble holding this one even with a 16" scope.    Report

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