Galaxy Zoo: what if you find something totally cool?

So you're addicted to Galaxy Zoo, and while identifying galaxies hither and yon you found some killer cool galaxy image. Did you discover something new? Could this be the scientific breakthrough of all time? Probably not. But it's still wicked nifty, and you want to find out more. What to do? Actually, it's not too hard. What you need to find out is the name of the galaxy -- really, the catalog number. If the galaxy is bright/big enough, it'll be in some catalog like the New General Catalog or the Uppsala Galaxy Catalog. The easiest way to find it is to use an astronomical database. Pretty much every object in the sky to a relatively faint limit is in a catalog somewhere, and a lot of these are online and searchable. The best bet is to use the coordinates of the object you found. Astronomers use coordinates on the ...