Where is ngc 1260?

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Mike - 28 Dec 2007 03:11 GMT

My Where Are the Stars software does not have it. It's the site of the most
luminous supernova sn2006gy.

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Odysseus - 28 Dec 2007 08:13 GMT

> My Where Are the Stars software does not have it. It's the site of the most
> luminous supernova sn2006gy.

A couple of good sites for lookimg up DSOs:

Interactive NGC Catalog Online,

<http://www.seds.org/~spider/ngc/ngc.html>

and Simbad, <http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad> (also linked from the
above).

They say that NGC 1260 is in Perseus at RA 3h17.5, Dec +41°24'; I got
exact J2000 coordinates for SN 2006gy (RA 3h17m27.06 Dec +41°24'19.5")
from a Simbad query for objects within a few arc-minutes of the galaxy.

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Mike - 29 Dec 2007 21:19 GMT

> A couple of good sites for lookimg up DSOs:
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> exact J2000 coordinates for SN 2006gy (RA 3h17m27.06 Dec +41°24'19.5")
> from a Simbad query for objects within a few arc-minutes of the galaxy.

So 9 minutes west of Algol on the wormhole train.

Iirc, the Nature article said it was invisible now. Have to recheck it
though.

Thanks.

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Where is ngc 1260?