Re: unnamed deep sky objects?

Lawrence Jan 28, 2004

> From: "Laurent Zimmermann" <lzmn@...>
>Subject: Re: unnamed deep sky objects?
>
>Hi Lawrence,
>
>
>I see that the star you mention is embedded in a kind of nebula, drawn as
>isophotes (I believe that they never have a label, but a right click
>identifies them as isophotes). Did you try to uncheck Display -> Isophotes ?
>Sorry if you already thought of that.

I just followed your suggestion; I gather that it is a nebula isophote -
apparently unnamed. How can such a large clearly defined object be
nameless? When I took an image of this region, I then realised that I
had no name for it - hence my use of the GSC number!

Thanks for comments.

Lawrence