The Game Clue

[Mark Wagner]

Let the games being!

Very simple for starters.  Constellations: Which is the most natural star-hopper?

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[Surya Rao]

Ursa Major?

Surya

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[Vishal Kasliwal]

Eridanus? (one long stream of stars with no bifurcations).

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[matthew marcus]

Lepus, of course :-)
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[Richard Navarrete]

That was my guess, Matthew ! Long live Lepus!

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[Mark]

Ding ding ding!!!!  (Missed it by "that much" - Richard)

I love Lepus too. I think R Leporis is a superb star.

You're next picker Matthew!

[Vishal Kasliwal]

Wait a sec... What makes Lepus a natural start hopper? You've got to explain the right answer..

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[matthew marcus]

OK, a really easy one: What DSO would be most likely to be involved in
a marriage proposal?
mam

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> Ding ding ding!!!!  (Missed it by "that much" - Richard)
>
> I love Lepus too. I think R Leporis is a superb star.
>
> You're next picker Matthew!
>
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> Lepus, of course :-)
> mam
>
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[matthew marcus]

Lepus = The Hare.
mam

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> explain the right answer..
>
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> Ding ding ding!!!!  (Missed it by "that much" - Richard)
>
> I love Lepus too. I think R Leporis is a superb star.
>
> You're next picker Matthew!
>
> On Saturday, July 4, 2026 at 10:09:29 AM UTC-7 mama...@lbl.gov

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> Lepus, of course :-)
> mam
>
> On 7/4/2026 10:02 AM, Mark Wagner wrote:
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[Richard Navarrete]

Lepus represents a hare, a natural hopper.🐇

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[David Kirjassoff]

The Ring Nebula

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[Mark]

I think it's the "Travis Kelce Thanks His Lucky Stars".

[Vishal Kasliwal]

Oh wow, I took the question a little too literally!!!

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[Rajah]

Having fun, keep them coming

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[Akarsh Simha]

I was going to go with the “Engagement Ring”, an asterism around Polaris, but I’m not sure if an asterism counts as a DSO or not

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[matthew marcus]

BING! Told you it was easy.
mam

[Mark]

I think David K is up next!

[David Kirjassoff]

Which galaxies like cheese?

[Mark Wagner]

I think I have this one by the tail.  The Mice?

I have a more difficult one if I'm next.

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[Paul Alsing]

The Mice!

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[Mark Wagner]

Beat you by 1 minute, Paul.  But you go. Make it a good one (test us), Paul.

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[David Kirjassoff]

I knew I made it too easy.  But the Mice are my favorite and then Muriel turned me on to the ARP catalog. 

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2 "black eyes" in the spectacular tunnel through the Great Rift!

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[matthew marcus]

The Mice (NGC 4676).
mam

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[Mark]

Got me on this one.  So I'll ask a question....is it a dark nebula? (I think we should be able to ask yes/no questions)

[Paul Alsing]

Not "it" but rather "they"... yes, dark nebula...

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[Mark]

That's a tough one Paul.  I can only guess, the Cocoon?  Only because of the tunnel.  Otherwise I'm stumpy - it doesn't sound like the Owl.

[Paul Alsing]

Close to 2 birds... one flies high and one swims in a pond...

[Paul Alsing]

Also, replace "tunnel" with "window"... even though "tunnel" is probably more correct!

Should be easy now!

[Paul Alsing]

Here is a really obscure clue... the stars in the window contain one of the most obscure asterisms in the sky, even though it is easy to find and observe. Unless you have already learned about it from me, you might not recognize the name... which is Jenn's Confluence!

[Mark Wagner]

Obscure?  Is there only one person named Paul Alsing that knows of this?  It sounds like it's through Baade's Window.  I'm about to say Uncle.

[Paul Alsing]

Well, I've showed it to a whole lot of people over the years, perhaps even you!

Last clue, I think... that "window, as far as I know, is the only way to see stars in the Sagittarius Arm of the Galaxy, which is normally blocked from us by intervening dust clouds. Keep in mind that you are looking for 2 dark nebulae!

[Paul Alsing]

OK, last clue for sure... the window I speak of is very popular and is naked-eye under a dark sky. It is a member of the most well-known list existing and the aforementioned birds are equally spaced just north of the window. Somebody? Anybody?

[Akarsh Simha]

The answer is in the GSSP2026 observing program

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[Mark]

All I can think of is the Dark Horse Nebula.  South of Aquila and Cygnus.  But most well known list (Messier)?  I agree - anyone?

[Mark Wagner]

Name it Akarsh.

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[Akarsh Simha]

I bet Paul is talking about the globular clusters NGC 6522 and NGC 6528 seen through Baade's Window

[Mark Wagner]

That would make sense.  I was thinking two dark spots (eyes).

[Akarsh Simha]

Oh never mind, I read all the clues -- he's talking about dark nebulae. Maybe B92 and B93 in the Sagittarius Star Cloud M24 (that's also in the GSSP2026 packet)? The window definitely sounds like Baade's Window.

[Paul Alsing]

No...

[Paul Alsing]

That is the correct answer... B92 and B93... Start reading at "physical properties"...

Small Sagittarius Star Cloud (Messier 24) | Deep⋆Sky Corner

[Mark Wagner]

Yes Paul, I've definitely seen it, I think in big binos.  Did you show me?  Probably.

GSSP would have a dark enough sky to make observing it worthwhile!

I'm going to a new esoteric target with an easy reference:

What does Morticia cook for dinner? 🤔

[Paul Alsing]

  IC 2118?

[Mark Wagner]

The Witch's Head!?!?!?  LOL!

Nope.  This object's name sounds entirely edible.

[Mark Wagner]

BTW.... It's a whopper!

[Akarsh Simha]

Oh this one's easy: Gomez's Hamburger.

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[Mark Wagner]

Dang Akarsh - I thought you were too young to know Aadams Family.

BTW... Burger King Whopper:

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[Akarsh Simha]

Damn this thread is noisy y’all but since it’s deepsky it’s a lot of fun (for me)

Next: You can’t call me by my old name anymore, but I sure do look like the Lorenz attractor, so maybe you can call me that… (NGC number please, hint it’s easy to remember)

On Sun, Jul 5, 2026 at 18:41 Mark Wagner <itsmar...@gmail.com> wrote:

Dang Akarsh - I thought you were too young to know Aadams Family.

Actually it re-ran on Cartoon Network as a cartoon, I had to look up who Morticia was (oops, is that not allowed?) and suddenly the cartoon image of Gomez came to me :-P.

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[Paul Alsing]

Butterfly Nebula? Butterfly cluster?

[Paul Alsing]

There are actually 2 Butterfly Nebulae, but one is definitely "unofficial", that being NGC 2346... just speculating...

[Mark Wagner]

I like Minkoeski's.

[Mark Wagner]

Yes Akarsh - this game is "noisy" on TAC, which has occurred to me too. It's really up to Jamie ultimately if it is too much.

We could do just one clue a day, or, I have a separate TAC-games mailing list if preferred. I do agree 30-50+ emails and maybe increasing would be a lot.

People can join if they like - the trick is having enough subscribers: https://groups.google.com/g/tac-games

[Akarsh Simha]

Okay, before we abandon this, I'll give the answer to the question I posed:

NGC 4567

[Mark Wagner]

Oh, I love sequentials!  NGC 6543 is a fave!

[Paul Alsing]

I figured it was Butterfly-something!

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