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Mike Wirths
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Very glad you decided to join us! Great report BTW! I love m46, its so cool to see 2 different types of objects in the same FOV. It looks like it might be good for observing Sun or Mon night can you make it during the week for observing sessions at my spot? --clear skies! P.S. if you come....bring a......shrubberry!!!!! PPS hey maybe in the summer we could have a BBQ and watch Hitch-hikers guide some time -----Original Message-----
From: Matt Weeks <mweeks@...> To: OAFs@... <OAFs@...> Date: Friday, March 16, 2001 9:15 PM Subject: [OAFs] Mar 15 Observing report Hello all, Thanks, Roland and Attilla for your warm welcome. I managed to get out last night and do some observing, it was nice to get out after such a bad stint of weather. I am looking forward to doing some observing with you all, maybe I'll get to see what that 3x barlow can do in experienced hands!! I have decided to revisit all of the Messiers and log them along with the RASC's finest NGC objects. Up until recently my observing records were check marks beside a list, so I hope you don't mind reading about a million open clusters!!! Anyway, here is my report: Session: 01-007 Date: March 15, 2001 Time: 7:30 10:00 Location: Carp Airport, Carp Ontario Weather Description: Winds: Light to Calm, Temp -6 Limiting Magnitude: 5.4 (Polaris) 5.75 (southern sky using triangle method) Seeing: 2/10 3/10 Scope: Celestar 8 Targets: 1) M47: Open cluster in Puppis. 40 50 stars visible using 42mm. A coarse, large cluster. Most stars blue-white in color. A couple of reddish stars were noted. Two obvious double stars noticed. One pair were even brightness and closely matched in color (blue- white). The other pair was uneven with a bright blue-white star and a dim reddish star. 2) M46: Open cluster in Puppis. Using the 18mm and 24mm approx. 100 stars were noted. About half seemed to be "bright" and the other half "dim". Moderately compressed and large. Planetary nebula NGC 2438 easily seen on northern edge of cluster with direst vision. Averted vision made it a lot more obvious. 3) NGC 2438: Planetary Nebula in M46. 18mm + 2x barlow + Broad band LPR. Slight hint of annularity glimpsed occasionally. Pretty much round. Slightly brighter outer edge but overall very even brightness. 4) NGC 2539: Open cluster in Puppis. Using 18mm 35-40 stars were noted. Moderately condensed. Nice view. 5) M50: Open Cluster in Monoceros. 50-75 stars in 42mm. Meandering over approx. 3/4 deg. Loose cluster but bright and large. Noticed a couple of reddish stars involved. Using 24mm lots more stars where noted using averted vision. The background seemed slightly hazy. 6) M41: Open cluster in Canis Major. 40-50 stars in 42mm. Mostly blue-white. One bright red star is center of cluster. 7) NGC 2359: Emission Nebula in Canis Major. Thor's Helmet. Using 18mm with LPR found a very faint patch of gas. Ovoid in N-S direction. 7 stars involved with a small clustering on the north edge. Using a digital Sky Survey image I believe what I saw was the brighter "wing" of the neb. I will have to try this one again using a UHC or darker sky. 8) NGC 3242: Planetary Nebula in Hydra. Ghost of Jupiter. Bright. Easy in 18mm. Not quite round. Using 18mm + LPR a faint and thin outer shell was noted. A possible slight extension of northern edge of outer shell was suspected. Clear skies all, Matt Weeks To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: amasot-unsubscribe@... Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to |
