Green Tag Allowance Mystery Cache
MasterSergeantUSMC: Had a nice run but time to go. Will try something different. Grabbed the container.
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Caldwell 17 is a dwarf spheroidal galaxy about 2.58 Mly away in the constellation Cassiopeia. Caldwell 17 is a member of the Local group of galaxies and a satellite galaxy of the Andromeda Galaxy (M31). It forms a physical pair with the nearby galaxy NGC 185,[5] another remote satellite of M31. It was discovered by John Herschel in September 1829. Visually it is both fainter and slightly larger than NGC 185 (and therefore has a considerably lower surface brightness). This means that Caldwell 17 is more difficult to see than NGC 185, which is visible in small telescopes. In the Webb Society Deep-Sky Observer's Handbook,[6] the visual appearance of Caldwell 17 is described as Large, quite faint, irregularly round; it brightens in the middle to a stellar nucleus.
PGC 5103 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Pisces. It located approximately 499 million light-years from the Solar System and was discovered on 26 October 1876 by French astronomer Édouard Stephan. Stephan discovered the object with the 31" silver-glass reflecting telescope at the Marseille Observatory. He described his discovery as diffuse, with two faint stars on the west side. The description and position given in his notes matches UGC 936 and PGC 5103, thus the objects are widely recognized as the same. John Louis Emil Dreyer, creator of the New General Catalogue, described the galaxy as "extremly faint, very small, small (faint) star involved, small star attached", with the two stars being the objects to the west of NGC 511.
N44.51.Caldwell 17
W093 29.PGC 5103
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