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June 2020 Monthly Challenge.

Thank you for all the great suggestions that were put forward for the month of June.
If you have any suggestions for the month of July please let us know about them here: viewtopic.php?f=84&t=10665

The suggestions were put through a random winner generator and the results are in!

For the Northern Hemisphere we have M81/82.
For the Southern Hemisphere we have NGC 5128.


M81, NGC 3031, Spiral Galaxy in Ursa Major. M82, NGC 3034, Spiral Galaxy in Ursa Major.

Both galaxies are also sometimes referred to as Bode’s Nebula as they were first discovered by the German astronomer Johann Elert Bode on the 31st December 1774.
M81 is also sometimes called the cigar galaxy, M81 and M82 are a galaxy pair that have had a recent encounter and this is responsible for the disturbed M81.
Both galaxies are a favourite with Northern hemisphere amateur astronomers.

Image from Stellarium showing the location of M81/82.

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NGC 5128, Centaurus A, Spiral galaxy in Centaurus.

NGC 5128 was discovered by James Dunlop August 4th 1826. John Herschel also saw it from the Cape in South Africa in 1834. It is also included in the ARP atlas.
NGC 5128 is also the closest radio galaxy to us and has a active galactic nucleus.
Some reading material is here: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source= ... V8Uji6e1F7

Image below from Stellarium showing the location of NGC 5128.

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Now get out under the stars and take a look at our two targets, then post back your reports, images, sketches or other goodies you may have!
Have fun and keep looking up!!!
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Eyeballs, binoculars, sketch box, Scopes n stuff.
Some people don't understand why I love astronomy so much, I cannot understand why they do not!

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KingClinton wrote: Fri Jun 05, 2020 5:46 pm Image below from Stellarium showing the location of NGC 5128.


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Clinton

Looks like you might have clicked the wrong image.

Now's the time to go for this while the Moon is out of the way!

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