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Re: NGC6822
07/14/08 12:22 PM
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NGC 6822 is one of those small RFT objects where you need to find just the right balance between power and aperture. I have observed it in 10x50s under moderately good sky conditions when it was only about 25° above the horizon (from central Minnesota). It's bar-shape was visible to averted vision. 7x is almost certainly too little, even with larger aperture, because the sky background would be insufficiently darkened. (I'd like to try it with 7x50s from the southern hemisphere, though!) I confirmed my original sighting of it by noting that it seemed located about 1/3 the way NNE from one 9th mag star to another (confirmed by my atlas). Those two stars are a good way of finding it.
The thrill of seeing N6822 is in what it is--and, if you are able to discern its bar-shape, you are actually seeing the structure of an external galaxy with a small instrument!
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