Galaxy Zoo Talk

Whats this?

by montery

What am I looking at here?

Posted January 4, 2014 1:15 PM
by ElisabethB moderator

Please check the comments to the left ! 😄

Posted January 4, 2014 1:23 PM
by JeanTate in response to montery's comment.

I went for armless features-or-disk barely-noticeable bulge odd:disturbed+other object.

Here it is in SDSS:

The IR ghost is pretty cool, is it not? 😉

Posted January 5, 2014 1:20 AM

Subject: AGZ0006ldi

by montery

What am I seeing here?

Posted January 4, 2014 1:14 PM
by ElisabethB moderator

The object you are supposed to classify is the purple smudge. I'd go for irregular.

Posted January 4, 2014 1:21 PM
by ElisabethB moderator

Thegreen half circle is an optical artifact. The bright spiky object to the left is a foreground star from our galaxy.

Posted January 4, 2014 1:21 PM
by ElisabethB moderator

The spikes, colors and weird center of the star are all optical artifacts

Posted January 4, 2014 1:22 PM
by montery

Right, thanks guys.

Posted January 4, 2014 1:24 PM
by misiek07

Posted January 4, 2014 11:32 PM
by JeanTate

#ghost

Posted January 5, 2014 1:12 AM