In Patrick's 2006/03/10 News, there is an article featuring NGC2841, a mag 9.9-10.3 galaxy (6.2" x 2") in the Leo Spur and UMa constellation: NGC2841: Galactic Chimneys Turn Up the Heat http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2006/n2841/ Although not visible in amateur visual wavelengths, the Chandra X-ray image of NGC2841 shows how supernovas generate hot gas chimneys and gas plumes that rise out of a galaxy's plane. The clouds then cool, condense and lose their momentum - and sometimes are drawn back down as high-velocity clouds. These high-velocity clouds then crash into the pre-existing molecular clouds in the galactic plane and initiate a new round of star creation. NGC2841, when the current Moonless dark-sky frame starts on March 17, will be favorably positioned for observing at 41N Lat ops. My observing planner spreadsheet is not showing the galaxy as being detectable in a mag 5.5 SPOC sky (object MPSAS is 21.66, a mag 5.5 sky is 20.1 MPSAS), but it is within the range of uncertainty. It may be necessary to travel to a darker sky site to view this galaxy. I haven't personally viewed this one, but the CDS-Aladin and NGC Project photos show it to be a nice-looking grand design spiral. The stats on galaxy NGC2841 for March 17, 2006: Object: NGC2841 Con: UMa PosJ: J092200.00+505812.0 PosAzA: Az054.57 Alt+65.24 on 2006/3/17 approx. 3:00-5:00 UTC (8:00-10:00pm) LHA: 327.19 on 2006/3/17 3:00 UTC Other pointing reference: Star HD080566, mag. 8.5 is within 1 deg. TypeSimbad: LIN TypeClark: Sb MagSimbad: 9.9 MagClark's Catalogue: 10.3 Computed MPSAS: 21.66 Distance: 12000kpc per Tully(1988a) Object cross-references: PGC026512 (for "The Sky" users) Clark 199 Herschel 205-1 Online pics and info: Simbad link: http://simbad.harvard.edu/sim-id.pl?protocol=html&Ident=NGC2841 NGC Project database: http://www.ngcic.org/ngcicdb.asp - Canopus56 (Kurt) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com