GC1HDFQ Reach for the Stars
Type: Mystery | Size: Regular | Difficulty: | Terrain:
By: Czyz @ | Hide Date: 10/19/2008 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N39° 44.100 W104° 56.101 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 0
           

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The cache is NOT at the above coordinates. This is my first try at
a mystery cache. when you log your find please let me know what you
think. Its all about Deep Space

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The celestial sphere's reference grid is analogus to Longitude and Latitude but is called Right Ascension and Declination
respectively. The right ascension is split into twenty-four parts
called sidereal hours and tells us an objects position in east to west direction. It also provides information as to which time of year the object is visible. Declination tells us the objects location in the north-south orientation. Each deep sky object has a fixed set of Celestial Coordinates.

The other essential element to navigiating the sky is the organization of deep sky objects into various catalogs. The most famous being the Messier catalog with 110 of the most brightest and spectacular objects. The other two catalogs mostly uesd are the NGC new general catalog and the IC
index catalog. altogether the catalogs contain 13,226 deep sky objects. Using the celestial coordinates below to discover what deep sky objects go with the coordinates. Then using the first number of the catalog name for the deep sky object for ABCDEF.

The puzzle
A. Right Ascension 21hours : 41.3minutes
Declination +66dergees : 06minutes
NGC

B. 12hours : 50.9 minutes
+41 dergees : 07 minutes
Messier

C. 19hours : 59.6minutes
+22dergees : 43minutes
Messier

D. 13hours : 13.4 minutes
+36dergees : 36 minutes
NGC

E. 03hours : 33.6 minutes
-36dergees : 08minutes
NGC

F. 03hours : 46.8minutes
+68dergees : 06minutes
IC

N 39 44.ABC W 104 56.DEF

Additional Waypoints

04/16/2019 By Sweetwind
Greetings from California! I solved the puzzle at home, then came by here after doing "Enchanter," what fun! It was getting dark already. I'm not much of a night cacher. I searched a good 10-15 minutes with my Frotz Emitter, I mean cellphone flashlight, but finally called it: DNF.

Thanks for the cache anyway!

03/24/2019 By RyanHouse
Out in the area cleaning up puzzles and trads from my map. I waited out some kids taking pics of the trees. It was an interesting puzzle; I like seeing what other hobbies cachers are in to. TFTC!

07/16/2018 By SeekDaCache
Out early this morning caching our way to the Creatures in Colorado Event at Cheeseman park. We have tried this cache several times and could not come up with it. The area looks to have been cleaned up a bit. We placed a new container with log at GZ to keep cache going. SL

11/17/2017 By Taxi1729
Enjoyed the puzzle and could appreciate the challenge of the search. I then heard voices and realised two people had set up home very nearby. At that point I decided to leave. However, I did find a skateboard and a clothes bag!

11/12/2017 By SeekDaCache
Caching our way to the OBXGeek gets some Noodles and shares Cache Company. We searched the area for about 10 minutes and all we found, was a skate board in a tree a baggie full of clothes at another tree and 2 homeless people under a another tree a few feet away. No luck here today, maybe MIA!!! Could cache CO go check on this one, please!

10/19/2017 By Zombie_Huntress_
Sigh

09/25/2016 By MiSiYa
An astronomy related puzzle, so I only had to go back in memory to when I studied physics. Back in the day I even took a couple of astronomy courses and so knew about the different celestial coordinate systems and the corresponding data bases collecting various important objects. Nevertheless the puzzle took me a while to complete, back at home while preparing my trip to Denver.
Today I was out on a rental bike and toured around city park in the sunny afternoon. The final coordinates I had computed were not too far away and so I went for this puzzle cache after completing several other caches around. Having looked at google maps beforehand I knew what to expect, but actually finding the correct host was more difficult than anticipated. I roamed around the area with my GPSr in hand checking several spots until I finally narrowed the hiding spot down to two or three hosts. I searched each one of them carefully until I finally found the container very well hidden.
Thanks for this nice, not too hard puzzle and for hiding and maintaining this cache container.