![]() The two galaxies appear to form a physical but non-interacting pair. This is the same telescope that went on to become the Crossley reflector at Lick. Although Common is perhaps best known now for his photographic work, the NGC objects he discovered were all found visually using his 36” reflector from Ealing near London. ![]() NGC 36 were both discovered by William Herschel in 1786 and then independently by Andrew Common in 1880. Unfortunately, this means our targets will not rise that high as seen from the southern UK. Sorry the image isn't interactive, but you don't have javascript enabled.įor this month’s challenge we dip down into the constellation of Crater. We also have a finder chart should help you locate these galaxies, as will this link for NGC 3637 on the Stellarium Web planetarium. ![]() This interactive image of the NGC 3637 and was provided by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey using Aladin Sky Atlas. ![]()
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