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MESSAGE OF THE MONTH
This month’s top prize: two Philip’s titles
The ‘Message of the Month’ writer will receive a bundle of two top titles courtesy of astronomy publisher Philip’s: Nigel Henbest’s Stargazing 2023 and Robin Scagell’s Guide to the Northern Constellations
Winner’s details will be passed on to Octopus Publishing to fulfil the prize
Mystery object
I took an image of Markarian’s Chain on 21 April and after I processed it, I noticed two very prominent, blue-shifted objects. One is galaxy IC 3355; however, there is a bigger and brighter one, near to galaxy NGC 4425, which doesn’t appear in any other image I’ve found. It’s clearly visible in my stacked pre-processed image too, indicating that it isn’t a processing artefact. It was captured with a ZWO ASI183MC Pro camera through an Evostar ED72 telescope. The
