Gal_Loz?
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GoldenRule
That's what it's listed as in the end you're active spectrum of sdss. What's it mean?
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Budgieye
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The automated search was looking for (ie targeting) extremely distant bright red galaxies known as LRG or Luminous Red Galaxies. Instead, it found this red galaxy, but it was red because edge-on galaxies look very red due to all the dust when seen from the edge. So it labelled it as a galaxy.
red object in SDSS
http://skyserver.sdss.org/dr9/en/tools/explore/obj.asp?ra=174.21783771&dec=1.42771093
Galaxy Redshift Chart https://talk.galaxyzoo.org/#/boards/BGZ0000007/discussions/DGZ0000ulp?page=2
Spectra guide for SDSS images in Galaxy Zoo Talk https://talk.galaxyzoo.org/#/boards/BGZ0000001/discussions/DGZ0000ulp?page=3&comment_id=53fef2ee3d5a77490c0001b6
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GoldenRule
Ahhh thanks again budgieye
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Budgieye
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You're welcome 😃
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