Stargate Asterism (Gary Imm)

Celestial hemisphere: Southern · Constellation: Corvus (Crv) · Contains: PGC 104843 · PGC 104844 · PGC 104845 · PGC 116900 · PGC 116903 · PGC 116905 · PGC 117033 · PGC 117034 · PGC 117040 · PGC 117042 · PGC 117043 · PGC 117045 · PGC 117053 · PGC 125962 · PGC 955678 · PGC 959205 · PGC 959285 · PGC 960504 · PGC 960672 · PGC 961366 · PGC 961401

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Stargate Asterism

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Stargate Asterism

This pretty, bright, colorful star pattern is located in the constellation of Corvus at a declination of -12 degrees.

This object is famous for its resemblance to a portal device featured in the old Buck Rogers science fiction TV series, as quoted by many sources including Wikipedia. I could not find any image from Buck Rodgers which confirms that this stargate pattern was used in the show. All I can find from Buck Rogers is a pattern of an equilateral diamond formed by four points linked by thin "energy beams", which was used as a portal. That pattern does not look remotely close to that of this object, at least to my eyes.

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RA (center)	12h35m44s.338
RA (top/left)	12h37m11s.966
RA (top/right)	12h34m19s.513
RA (bottom/right)	12h34m16s.501
RA (bottom/left)	12h37m09s.258

Dec (center)	-12°01′26″.33
Dec (top/left)	-11°48′22″.84
Dec (top/right)	-11°47′17″.24
Dec (bottom/right)	-12°14′29″.98
Dec (bottom/left)	-12°15′34″.88

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