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DGSAT: Dwarf Galaxy Survey with Amateur Telescopes

Behnam Javanmardi, David Martínez‐Delgado, Pavel Kroupa, C. Henkel, Ken Crawford, K. Teuwen, R. Jay Gabany, M. M. Hanson, Taylor S. Chonis, Fabian Neyer

Astronomy and Astrophysics · 2016 · 106 citations · 49 references

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Context. We introduce the Dwarf Galaxy Survey with Amateur Telescopes (DGSAT) project and report the discovery of eleven low surface brightness (LSB) galaxies in the fields of the nearby galaxies NGC 2683, NGC 3628, NGC 4594 (M 104), NGC 4631, NGC 5457 (M 101), and NGC 7814.

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