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| | M 1 Supernova Remnant M1 |
 | | M108 is quite easy for the amateur, easier than the published values of its brightness imply. | | | Globular Cluster M9 in Ophiuchus is one of the nearer globular clusters to the nucleus of our Galaxy, with a computed distance of 5500 light-years from the Galactic Center. | | | This rubbing process is probably the reason for the observed vigorous star formation process, which is currently under way, and can be observed as the blue knots imbedded in the peculiar dust lane on one side of the nucleus. |
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http://www.siriusstargazers.com/Sirius%20Messier%20Descriptions.htm
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| | Observation Log - February 9, 2000 - Tinton Falls, NJ |
| | Images were combined using MaxIm DL software, and processed by subtracting dark frames from each image, median filter for noise reduction, then compositing, maximum entropy deconvolution, and finally a contrast stretch. | | | Images were combined using MaxIm DL software, and processed by subtracting dark frames from each image, median filter for noise reduction, then compositing, and finally a contrast stretch. |
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http://www.marketiq.com/astro/aa020900.htm
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| | This above image represents the bright spiral galaxy Messier 109 (NGC 3992) in Ursa Major, shown from a yellow-light (V-band) CCD exposure with an RCA CCD at the 1.1-meter Hall telescope of Lowell Observatory. | | | The upper panels show an R-band CCD image taken from Kitt Peak in reasonably good seeing conditions (image FWHM near 1 arcsecond). | | | M108 is easy to find telescopically, just outside the bowl of the Big Dipper close to Beta Ursae Majoris. |
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http://www.kingrami.fanspace.com/photo.html
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| | Circumpolar Regions Skies that never set |
| | Neither of them is the central star for the nebula, which is almost 16th magnitude and would require a large telescope to find. | | | We start with possibly the best known constellation in the sky, | | | This note was unfortunately lost and people spent a lot of time trying to work out which galaxy should be M102, based on errors Messier could have made when reducing the position. |
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http://homepage.ntlworld.com/mark.pollock/circumpolar.html
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| | Cosmic Voyage-The Online Resource for Amateur Astronomers |
| | This Sc-type spiral has an integrated visual magnitude of 10.0 and a surface brightness of 21.6 magnitudes per square arc second, which is fairly bright. | | | M108 appears nearly edge-on covering a 6'x2' area. | | | The galaxy displays a stellar core and a 13th magnitude star is visible in the foreground at the galaxy's western tip. |
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http://members.aol.com/billferris/m108.html
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| | Spiral (and other Disk) Galaxies |
| | the disk around the center of M87, which is often regarded as the accretion disk around the supermassive object in that galaxy's nucleus, may be a smaller manifestation of the same disk phenomenon. | | | spiral galaxies often have an ellipsoidally formed "bulge" which may be very luminous (as in case of the Sombrero galaxy M104) or rather inconspicuous; some spirals seem to lack this component at all. | | | Some of the galaxies, mostly those who had no closer encounters for a longer period of time, and those who have lost most of their interstellar matter for some reason, do not show any conspicuous pattern within their disks; these are often called "S0" or "lenticular" galaxies. |
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http://www.seds.org/messier/spir.html
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| | M108 is another one of the extended objects added to Messier's catalog in 1954 (based on his original notes). | | | This is an example of "multiple arm" spirals due to two apparent sets of arms, one close in to the center, and the outer, looser set. | | | M3 is one of more heavily studied globular clusters due to its position in the galaxy, putting it far from interstellar absorbtion. |
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http://www.us-vo.org/VOTable/xslt/cover.xml
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| | More M108 |
| | The image was obtained by participants George and Betsy Crossley within their stay with the Advanced Observer Program of the Kitt Peak National Observatory (KPNO) Visitor Center, with the AOP's Meade 16-inch LX200 telescope operating at f/6.3 and SBIG ST8E CCD camera with color filter wheel. | | | Color-composite CCD image of M108 by Bill Keel of the University of Alabama. | | | This picture was created from observations using the T2KA CCD camera at the Kitt Peak National Observatory's 0.9-meter telescope in January of 1997. |
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http://www.obspm.fr/messier/more/m108_more.html
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| | "See" Trials |
| | And of course, you can't look at M105 without looking at NGC3384, since they are only about 8 arc-minutes apart. | | | M108 was added to Messier's catalog in 1954 based on his original notes. | | | This galaxy is very close to the star Phecda in the bowl of the Big Dipper, which makes it easy to find. |
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http://www.mindspring.com/%7Ejeffpo/seetrial.htm
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| | Steve's pretty pictures of Messier objects et al. |
| | Most of the asteroid rotation lightcurve observations made for my thesis were made at MIT's Wallace Astrophysical Observatory, using the 24'' telescope with the SNAPSHOT CCD system. | | | Several of the original images have since been reshot with the same telescope using the PCCD, the successor to the SNAPSHOT. | | | During that 2.5-year span I also imaged each of the objects in the Messier Catalogue of bright star clusters, nebulae, and galaxies, yielding the following collection of pretty pictures! |
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http://web.mit.edu/afs/.athena/course/12/12s23/Messiers/messiers-list.html
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| | SkyEye - Messier Catalogue |
| | Unfortunately, he kept coming across fuzzy-looking objects in his telescope that could easily fool the unwary, so he began to compile a list of these objects which eventually became known as the Messier Catalogue. | | | Others believe that this object is actually the lenticular galaxy NGC5866 in the constellation Draco. | | | Ironically, Charles Messier is now more famous for his list of galaxies, nebulae and clusters than he is for his comet discoveries. |
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http://www.obliquity.com/skyeye/misc/messier.html
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| | Deepsky observing report NGC 869, NGC 884, Stock 2, M31, NGC 752, Harrington's STAR 14, M27, M1, M36, M38, NGC 1907, ... |
| | What I saw through my eyepiece was an elongated object, about 7′long and oriented east-west. | | | I moved the telescope a little in the north-western direction and M108 immediately popped into the field of view. | | | I could not detect any spiral arms or other details. |
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http://www.backyard-astro.com/deepsky/2003_09_25/ITTday1.html
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| | The Utah Skies Report Planetary Report Constellation Report Astronomical Events |
| | This object is much harder to view than it's mag 7.2 would suggest. | | | The researchers say that these types of bulges can continue to grow in galaxies in the present universe, but it is unlikely that they will ever become as big as those giant bulges that formed when the universe was young. | | | Carollo's team found that in a different class of spiral galaxy, a small bulge probably formed early on, but was later fed by gas flowing into the galaxy's core, likely along a bar-like structure caused by instabilities in the surrounding disk of stars. |
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http://www.utahskies.org/report/20030418/20030418weekly.shtml
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| | David's Astronomy - Herschel Objects |
| | Mosaic of CCD frames, 30s exposures taken on | | | Green (V av 2 x 30s), Red (R av 2 x 30s) | | | CCD Image, 4 x 60 sec exposure (average combine), C filter |
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http://www.richweb.f9.co.uk/astro/herschel_objects.htm
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| | VNA Products |
| | Vixen ED102S refractor Vixen GPDX mount with Vixen Skysensor2000 goto Vixen 2x Barlow | | | NGC 300: part of Sculptor Group of Galaxies | | | Leo Galaxy Triplets: M66, M65 & NGC 3628 |
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http://www.vixenamerica.com/Products?Extra=Images
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| | CASCA'96 Electronic Proceedings |
| | VLBI Astrometry of the Compact Core of M81 with an Interactive Phase-Connection Software Package | | | The Luminosity Function of Field Galaxies in the CNOC1 Redshift Survey | | | The Globular Cluster Systems of Two Eridanus A Galaxies |
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http://www.astro.queensu.ca/confproc.html
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| | MESSIER MONTH |
| | It’s the only elliptical galaxy we see this month, and a textbook example that has seen much study. | | | As you study this pair through the telescope, consider that our Milky Way would very nearly fill the space between them. | | | M82 (NGC 3034) This cosmic curiosity, classified as an irregular, or sometimes a starburst galaxy, is popularly known as the Cigar Galaxy. |
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http://www.palouseastro.wsu.edu/messier/MMbMFeb.html
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| | Search Encyclopedia.com |
| | X-ray astronomy X-ray astronomy, study of celestial objects by means of the X rays they emit, in the wavelength range from 0.01 to 10 nanometers. | | | Doppler effect Doppler effect, change in the wavelength (or frequency) of energy in the form of waves, e.g., sound or light, as a result of motion of either the source or the receiver of the waves; the effect is named for the Austrian scientist Christian Doppler, who demonstrated the effect for sound. | | | The study of such radiation from celestial objects is... |
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http://www.encyclopedia.com/search.asp?target=Spiral+Galaxy+M108&rc=10&fh=69&fr=11
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| | M108 - Ursa Major |
| | It has a visual magnitude of 10, despite which it is quite easy to spot in small telescopes. | | | M108 was formally discovered by P. Mechain (Messier's assistant) on 19 February 1781. | | | Messier gave this object a preliminary listing of 98 but it did not form part of his published catalogue at the time. |
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http://www.astrocruise.com/m108.htm
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| | * M108 - (Astronomy): Definition |
| | French astromoner Charles Messier (1730-1817) created a catalog of of nebula e and star cluster s so that these objects would not be confused for comet s which was his observing focus. | | | As a matter of chance, the two Messier objects M97 and M108 are situated so close together in the sky that they can be seen in one wide field of view. | | | This small spiral galaxy in Ursa Major was discovered by Mechain in February 1871 or 1872. |
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http://en.mimi.hu/astronomy/m108.html
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| | Other known galaxies |
| | NGC 6822 Irregular Barnard's Galaxy (Caldwell 57) in Sagittarius | | | Images will not be available for d/l due to server space limitations, however original format is available on demand. | | | M4 Globular Cluster (class IX) NGC 6121 in Scorpius |
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http://pages.infinit.net/bluhaze/Glxs2.htm
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| | Geoff Smith's Astrophotgraphy |
| | This galaxy is a recent substitution for Messiers duplicate observation of M101 and not always recognised as a legitimate Messier object. | | | Visually I also find it a challenge, appearing as nothing much more than a faint smudge. | | | One of the most famous and easily recognised of all galaxies. |
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http://homepage.ntlworld.com/geoff.smith5/galaxies.html
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| | Spiral Galaxy M108 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | This page was last modified 12:43, 16 May 2005. | | | The Spiral Galaxy M108 (also known as Messier Object 108, Messier 108, M108, or NGC 3556) is a spiral galaxy in the | | | M108 is at a distance of about 45 million light years away from Earth. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiral_Galaxy_M108
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| | M108 type SC Spiral galaxy ull resolution |
| | This Black and white image is made up of four 2 minute -20C degree images co-added after autodark subtract. |
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http://www.ualr.edu/djlewis/don/astronomy/messier/m108.htm
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| | M108 |
| | A galaxy in Ursa Major, M108 (NGC 3556) is estimated to be 45 million light years from our solar system. | | | More information and images of this galaxy can be found at The Messier Index - M108. | | | This galaxy is a type Sc spiral galaxy, similar to M51 and M100, though it is edge-on to our view point. |
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http://www.astroimages.org/ccd/m108.html
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| | M-108, Spiral Galaxy |
| | This is a 10 minute exposure with an ST-6 CCD camera taken thru Kopernik's 20-inch telescope. | | | M-108) is a spiral galaxy of complex shape in the constellation of Ursa Major. | | | Messier's unpublished notes show that he knew of Mechain's discovery, and it is therefore often added to modern listings of the Messier catalog. |
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http://www.kopernik.org/images/archive/m108.htm
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| | Welcome to astronomy4beginers |
| | Objects on Messier's list are still referred to by their "Messier number". | | | Although these objects looked like comets, Messier knew that since they did not move with respect to the background stars they could not be the comets he was searching for. | | | These objects are now well known to modern astronomers to be among the brightest and most striking nebulae, star clusters, and galaxies. |
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http://astronomy4beginners.741.com/page3.html
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| | Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics » M108 |
| | Messier referred to it in his catalog in a note on M97, saying that it lay nearby, but since its position had not been determined he never included it as a separate entry. | | | M108 is a spiral galaxy in Ursa Major, located one-third of the way from M97 (the Owl Nebula) to Beta Ursae Majoris. |
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1888/0333750888/6108
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| | NOAO Image Gallery: Spiral Galaxies |
| | Spiral galaxies are rotating disk systems of stars, gas and dust. | | | Due to their varying orientations in the sky, they may appear as face-on whirlpools, edge-on disks, or as something in between. | | | If you plan to use any of these images for other than your personal enjoyment please read our conditions of use. |
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http://www.noao.edu/image_gallery/spiral_galaxies.html
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| | Ole's Astronomy Site: Various galaxies in and around Ursa Major |
| | This image would be impossible to make at home due to the extreme faintness of the object. | | | IC 342 is faint because it is strongly obscured by dust in our own Milky Way, otherwise it would have been much brighter. | | | I caught this (rather poor) image of the phenomena in August 2001. |
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http://www.ngc7000.org/ccd/gal-canes.html
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| | Galaxies |
| | This image shows you two objects of M97 (NGC3587) and M108 (NGC3556). | | | Sandage suspects it may be a member of the Ursa Major cloud, a loose agglomeration of galaxies which probably also homes M108 and M109, while Tully lists it in the Coma-Sculptor cloud. | | | They form a spiral pattern which can be traced well into its bright central region to the core. |
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http://www.designhazard.com/xtar/03_cosmo/galaxies.htm
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| | M108 |
| | M108 is one of the six objects added to the Messier catalog in the 20th century based on Messier's notes. | | | Located less than a degree away from M97 (the Owl), M108 is a relatively easy find. | | | Many observers think of M108 as "that galaxy near the Owl nebula" but it is an interesting object in its own right. |
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http://www.skyhound.com/sh/archive/apr/M_108.html
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| | M108-M97 |
| | M108 is a spiral galaxy seen 8 degrees from edge on. | | | It is found near the bottom of the bowl of the big dipper.Nearby is the Planetary Nebula M97- commonly known as the "Owl" It is 10 thousand light years from earth. |
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http://www.meinig.com/rpmeinig2b_049.htm
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| | Messier Object 109 |
| | Mais M108 et M109 ne furent ajoutées au catalogue "officiel" qu'en 1953 par Owen Gingerich. | | | La supernova 1956A de type I est apparue dans cette galaxie le 17 Mars 1956 et à son maximum atteignit la magnitude 12,8 (ou même 12,3 selon certaines sources) | | | M109 est une de ces spirales barrées en forme de "thêta", qui apparaît comme une "tache brumeuse" juste à 40' au SE de l'étoile Gamma Ursae Majoris de magnitude 2,44 (Phad, ou Phecda). |
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http://www.obspm.fr/messier/f/m109.html
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| | M108 is nearly edge-on and known to exhibit evidences of active starforming activity. | | | Such supershells are thought to be formed by galactic wind as a result of starburst activity in the galaxy. | | | We propose to observe the galaxy to investigate the hot gas outflow. |
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http://www.astro.isas.ac.jp/asca/operation/schedule/AO6/61108.html
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| | Images Index |
| | LDN 1773 - The Pipe Dark Nebulae Complex | | | LDN 1773 - The Pipe Dark Nebula complex | | | NGC 5128 - Irregular radio galaxy in Centaurus |
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http://www.astropix.com/HTML/K_MISC/TOC_DEX2.HTM
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| | Messier M108 |
| | Detailed discription of M108 in SEDS Messier database | | | Observation of object: M108 is a long narrow galaxy. | | | Observing Location: At home on the drive way |
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http://www.stargazing.net/david/fastar/m108.html
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| | URSA MAJOR |
| | This project, known as the Hubble Deep Field survey, covered an area of the sky about one-twenty-fourth of a degree wide, no larger than a grain of sand held at arm's length. | | | Interestingly, from spectroscopic evidence it is known that both components of Mizar are each double stars as well, so that there are actually four stars in Mizar, which along with Alcor make five stars in this single system. | | | In the area of Ursa Major near the Big Dipper are two remarkable galaxies, both of which are too far away to view without a telescope. |
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http://homepage.mac.com/kvmagruder/bcp/aster/constellations/UMa.htm
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| | Masi Astro_images_galaxies |
| | This picture shows the galaxy NGC 2608 with the supernova SN 2001bg. | | | This picture shows the galaxy M96 (Leo) and SN 1998bu. | | | This picture shows the galaxy m108, Ursa Major. |
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http://www.bellatrixobservatory.org/galaxies.html
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| | M97, The Owl Nebula, Galaxy M108 |
| | M97, the Owl Nebula, and M108, a spiral galaxy, form one of the more interesting random juxtapositions of near and far objects in the same telescopic field. | | | Although its distance is somewhat uncertain, given anywhere from 1,300 to 12,000 light years, M97 is definitely located inside of our own galaxy, whereas M108 is another galaxy entirely separate from our own, and located at a distance of some 45 million light years. | | | M108 is an edge on spiral galaxy seen nearly edge-on with lots of obscuring dust that resembles M82. |
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http://www.astropix.com/HTML/C_SPRING/M97_M108.HTM
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| | M108/M97 |
| | M97 the "Owl Nebula" and M108 an edge-on spiral galaxy lie at the botom of the bowl of the "Big Dipper" Both objects require dark skies to see. | | | It is a spiral galaxy seen 7 1/2 degrees from edge on and is similar to the "Sombrero" galaxy (M104) in the constellation of Virgo. | | | The blue nebula in the upper right side is the "Owl" nebula- a planetary nebula with a white dwarf star at its heart. |
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http://www.meinig.com/rpmeinig2b_046.htm
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| | Astrophoto, Astronomy by C.Petermann |
| | And M110 205 Elliptical Galaxy 00 40.4 +41 41 8.5 17x10 And M31 224 Spiral Galaxy 00 42.7 +41 16 3.4 178x63 And M32 221 Elliptical Galaxy 00 42.7 +40 52 8.1 8x6 | | | Dra M102 5866 SO Galaxy 15 06.5 +55 46 9.9 5.2x2.3 | | | CVn M106 4258 Spiral Galaxy 12 19.0 +47 18 8.4 19x8 CVn M94 4736 Spiral Galaxy 12 50.9 +41 07 8.2 7x3 CVn M63 5055 Spiral Galaxy 13 15.8 +42 02 8.6 10x6 CVn M51 5194 Spiral Galaxy 13 29.9 +47 12 8.4 11x7 CVn M3 5272 Globular Cluster 13 42.2 +28 23 6.2 16.2 |
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http://www.df9cy.de/astro_messier.htm
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| | More M108 |
| | Michael Purcell 's image of M108, taken on November 24, 1995 at 04:43 with his Meade 10-inch f/6.3 SC Telescope and a ST7 CCD camera. | | | This image is copyrighted; please acknowledge William's work nearest to the image if you use it in your html page, and contact William McLaughlin if you consider commercial use. | | | CCD image of M108 by the University of Arizona Astronomy Club. |
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http://www.obspm.fr/messier/more/m108_m2.html
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| | phaneronoemikon: GIC. |
| | the aquarius M74 spiral galaxy in éé座 the M75 spherical group in troops place M76 small Dumbell, the cork, or butterfly | | | pair of suddenly lens galaxy in stupor Berenices the M86 in constellation virgo M87 the constellation virgo A in the | | | abbreviation galaxy spherical group opens in nine snakes M84 pair of suddenly lens galaxy in the constellation virgo M85 |
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http://www.hevanet.com/solipsis/blogger/2004/09/gic.html
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| | Messier Object 108 |
| | Messier nota cet objet (M108) sous le No. 98 dans sa version manuscrite, sans donner de position. | | | La supernova 1969B de type II est apparue dans M108 le 23 janvier 1969 et atteignit la magnitude 13,9. | | | M108 est tout à fait à la portée de l'amateur, et plus facile que ne le laisseraient penser les valeurs données pour sa brillance (à l'exception de la magnitude 9,4 estimée par Don Machholz). |
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http://www.obspm.fr/messier/f/m108.html
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| | David's Astronomy - Images 2003-12-07 (S00055) |
| | Initial polar alignment error was 1.1 deg in azimuth and 0.15 deg in altitude, as determined by TPoint. | | | Imaging session was at Full Moon, with ST7 CCD camera on a temporarily mounted 8", f/10 SCT telescope. | | | Despite the moon light causing typical sky background of around 3 to 6 ADU/sec/sq.arc sec (compared to non-Moon sky background values of around 0.6 to 1) reasonable detail was observable in galaxies down to mag +14 to +15. |
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http://www.richweb.f9.co.uk/astro/images-2003-12-07.htm
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| | m108 |
| | The nearly edge-on spiral galaxy M108 appears to have no bulge and no pronounced core at all, it is just a detail-rich mottled disk with heavy obscuration along the major axis, with few H II regions and young star clusters exposed against the chaotic background -- in a word: "Very Dusty". | | | Upon quick examination, this galaxy appears very similar in appearence to the irregulat galaxy M82 (it fooled me for a while). |
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http://www.users.interport.net/r/i/ricknichols/Messier/m108.htm
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| | Best of AOP: M108 |
| | Its spiral structure is hidden from view- and without a typical bulge in its center, astronomers classify this as spiral galaxy with difficulty. | | | A color image of this galaxy transforms it from an otherwise mottled oval cloud into the complex workings of a spiral galaxy. | | | Would you like to take images like this? |
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http://www.noao.edu/noao/pio/pop/advanced/observers/m108.html
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| | Fremont Peak observing report - 3/29 |
| | I could see the brighter core of the edge on galaxy, but the supernova is far brighter! | | | It was darker in the west now, so I thought I would get the globular cluster, M79 in Lepus before it set. | | | At the same magnification, the edge on galaxy M109 in Ursa Major looked more like a smudge. |
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http://www.observers.org/reports/98.03.29.2.html
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| | StarLore - M108 |
| | Names: N/A Messier: M108 NGC No.: NGC 3556 Type: Sc Spiral Galaxy Magnitude: 10.1 Distance: ? | | | Please click on the map to see the page for Ursa Major |
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http://www.starlore.net/m108.htm
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