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Jump to first unread post. Pages: 1 speedster1fast1 First Post Reged: 03/08/08 Posts: 1 first timer here....need newbie help       #1128209 - 03/08/08 06:08 AM Edit   Reply   Quote   Quick Reply   i found something in the sky i think might be an unamed galaxy, who can help me find out how to research it?, i do have a bookmark on it if anyone wants to see it. lat:29.1512° long:131.176° will this work? Edited by speedster1fast1 (03/08/08 06:14 AM) Post Extras:       ChrisHeinz Tourist Reged: 12/17/07 Posts: 76 Loc: Lexington, KY Re: first timer here....need newbie help [Re: speedster1fast1]       #1128221 - 03/08/08 06:43 AM Edit   Reply   Quote   Quick Reply   Most of the GS (Google Sky) data comes from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). It has captured images of I'm guessing 10s-1000s of millions of galaxies too faint to be seen before. I looked (I think) at the coords you supplied and the galaxies there are faint and distant. (I'm relatively new here as well, I'm not sure I used lat and long right -- it's easier with GS if you supply dec and RA -- declination and right ascension). I think that all the SDSS galaxies are kind of automatically assigned a number. There is an interesting crowdsourcing project for going through these and classifying their type: spiral (clockwise or counterclockwise), elliptical, merger, or not a galaxy. It's kind of fun. http://www.galaxyzoo.org/ Welcome to GS, I think you've already found how amazingly detailed some of these deep space images are. Post Extras:       Pages: 1

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