# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
"""
Created on Fri Jan 20 11:40:17 2017

@author: dlivelyb
"""

#%%
# something different, make a vector of 'pointers' (ngcptr) into rows of data
#    thusly chopped corresponding to galaxies that contain NGC in name
ngcgalx = []
ngcptr = []        
j = 0
for i in galaxies:
    if i[:3] == "NGC":
        ngcgalx += [i]
        ngcptr += [j]
    j = j+1