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List:       kstars-devel
Subject:    Re: [Kstars-devel] Inaccurate Catalogs?
From:       Akarsh Simha <akarshsimha () gmail ! com>
Date:       2007-12-06 22:51:44
Message-ID: 20071206223944.GB3853 () PENGUIN ! BANGALORE
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Hi

> I happened to observe this galaxy called NGC 2090 through a 10" Telescope.
> While a few other sources show the magnitude of this object to be 11.2 magnitude, \
> KStars puts it at 11.9 It is impossible that it is 11.9, because then I'd have \
> simply not seen it with such a small scope. 
> What is the source of these catalogs? Is the source accurate?

I really enjoyed the new 'Observing List Wizard' Tool and it is really a marvellous \
feature. I just gave it a shot and figured that it failed miserably when I tried to \
filter galaxies brighter than Mag 6. It gave me about 100 results for that! When I \
looked into the catalogs, these galaxies had 0.0 as their magnitudes instead of "     \
" as required for an undetermined magnitude.

Aren't we using the catalogs from over here: \
http://www.klima-luft.de/steinicke/ngcic/rev2000/Explan.htm ? The catalog out there \
resolves both the above problem, as well as the NGC 2090 trouble that I mentioned \
earlier.

Seems like some mistake while using awk?


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