Galaxy Zoo Talk

Asteroid is galaxy ... :( ?

  • gena_slash by gena_slash

    When I see in Navigate Tool - asteroid on 1:30 o'clock (ra=22.10130 dec=2.52264) is Galaxy.
    Is it true?

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  • Capella05 by Capella05 moderator in response to gena slash's comment.

    That is definitely an asteroid 😃

    SkyServer is not always correct, as a lot of the tags are generated by various computer algorithms, and in this case it got confused between an asteroid and a galaxy!

    Nothing beats the human eye when it comes to classifying 😃

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  • gena_slash by gena_slash in response to Capella05's comment.

    Thanks.
    Of course, I also saw the asteroid. But to these coordinates correspond to the galaxy. So - the asteroid blocked to galaxy? 😃

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  • Capella05 by Capella05 moderator

    There is no galaxy - it is a mistake on the SkyServer database 😃

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  • gena_slash by gena_slash in response to Capella05's comment.

    😃 For a practice, I found the spectra for the asteroid to 358-51818-349 fiber of the plate, the red shift z = 0.0647, and save a pretty original image in my PC. Also, I found another asteroid in the upper right corner of the original image. 😃

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  • Capella05 by Capella05 moderator in response to gena slash's comment.

    That red shift number looks a bit odd ** - do you have a link? or the data so I can have a look?

    **meaning the redshift indicates the object is way out of this galaxy.

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