A promising-looking Gravitational lens

• by planetaryscience

  Here's another interesting G-lens candidate:

  http://skyserver.sdss.org/dr13/en/tools/explore/Summary.aspx?id=1237660765374578730 (129.6053 +30.2871, to the lower left of the galaxies)

  Based on the distance of the galaxy cluster, the galaxies are about 300,000 light years across, which seems large enough to cause strong lensing

  Based on PANSTARRS, SDSS, and DECaLS, it looks quite promising to me!

  

  Posted August 30, 2017 6:43 PM

• by Dolorous_Edd

  already mentioned in GZ

  https://talk.galaxyzoo.org/?_ga=1.191070186.1751955194.1484309494#/boards/BGZ0000001/discussions/DGZ000299n

  Posted August 30, 2017 7:10 PM

• by Ghost_Sheep_SWR

  O_o

  Posted August 30, 2017 9:19 PM

• by Ghost_Sheep_SWR

  Thanks Edd,

  Btw also added to the Hubble opportunity lowest priority thread;

  https://talk.galaxyzoo.org/?_ga=1.191070186.1751955194.1484309494#/boards/BGZ0000001/discussions/DGZ0002mkv

  Posted August 30, 2017 9:45 PM

• by planetaryscience

  Hah, what are the odds? Seems I keep missing things by a little bit.

  any day now...

  ~Sam

  Posted August 31, 2017 5:05 AM

• by Budgieye moderator

  We really need a sky map, where we can pin things, so we don't discover things twice. I have asked for one. With so many different IDs for each galaxy, it is difficult to do searches.

  Posted August 31, 2017 6:54 AM

• by planetaryscience

  It might be relatively easy to work off of existing online sky maps to make that.... not that I have any idea how to do that.

  Posted September 1, 2017 6:40 AM