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M33 Northeast Quadrant Blink Comparator

Installed 24 Aug 2005. Latest Update 08 Aug 2007.

M33 Northeast Quadrant Blink Comparator (Expanded)
Views are not completely aligned so some motions are fictitious.

Images being compared: Ritchey 1910(1) - Pilato 2003(2)
van Maanen's comparison stars(3) are annoted in red.
M33 Blink Comparators by Quadrant
Northwest - Northeast - Southeast - Southwest

Notes

Serendipity Objects

References

(1) Hubble, Edwin, "A Spiral Nebula as a Stellar System," Contributions from the Mt. Wilson Observatory," No. 310, 1 (1926). NADS - Reprinted from the Astrophysical Journal, 63, pp. 236-274, (1926).

(2) 2003 astrograph of M33 courtesy of Dark Star Images by Tony Pilato.

(3) van Maanen, A., "Investigations on Proper Motion - Tenth Paper: Internal Motion in the Spiral Nebula Messier 33, N.G.C. 598" - ApJ 57, 264-278 (1923) - NADS - (van Maanen's Plate XV is an annotated version of Milton Humason's 1922 photograph of M33.)