Quote:
Originally Posted by parejkoj
Nice! That's just the kind of story I was looking for. I love "confusing coincidence" stories. No hurry to get the ID, but if you get a chance, I'd like to see it.
|
Here we go. 0128-33, also known as MCG -06-04-41 or ESO 353-G7. I came across it while examining the entire SRC J survey for optical jets (with a magnifier on glass copies - the sort of thing we used to do once in a career). The features on the sky survey plate might have either been symmetric jets or diffraction spikes - after getting the appended image with the CTIO 1.5m, I asked colleagues doing spectroscopy at the 4m for a quick exposure. G star, less interesting than a luminous Seyfert nucleus or Einstein cross. The image (combination of 2 1-minute V exposures) shows diffraction spikes, charge bleeding, and an amusing response of the on-chip amplifier to large amounts of charge in one place (the dark horizontal banding).