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ElisabethB

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any suggestions ?
« on: January 26, 2008, 04:47:33 pm »
apart from the pretty colours, does anybody have an idea what this is ?
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Re: any suggestions ?
« Reply #1 on: January 26, 2008, 05:07:54 pm »
SIMBAD has quite a few entries. It gives it three different "otyp"'s: 'Rad' which I think means a radio galaxy, 'IR' for infra-red, and '*iC' which is star in cluster.
It also calls it "NGC 2682"

Like the colour but still not sure exactly what it is.  :P


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Edit: I just googled NGC 2682 and the first entry says that it is Messier 67 and is an open cluster. Much more info there.
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Re: any suggestions ?
« Reply #2 on: January 27, 2008, 10:47:57 am »
Ccuuuuteee !! ... it's spectrum is very very very similar to those of Hannys green peas, but at very low "z". A very lucky find, because it's one of a handful of spectra taken in quite big area. (I wonder if someone at SDSS is hunting peas as well ;) ).
I'll have a closer look how similar it is ... maybe I should start making a catalogue ?!

Btw., open cluster Messier 67 (also known as M 67 or NGC 2682) means a cluster of stars, not that single object, which is a background galaxy !
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