Hi everyone,
It's almost that time again - the 17th annual Alt Az Workshop is coming up September 13, 14 and 15 at Dan Gray's TMS location in Portland Oregon. Please see the attached announcement...
This past Sunday night (8/11) Larry Mitchell and I observed the Chivito at our dark site near Columbus, Tx. SQM 21.0. Excellent seeing. Scope was an 18" f4.5. Easy star hop from Iota Cep. Is the...
Great choice. I have observed this galaxy many years ago with my 6" newt. The first time it appeared elongated nw-se. The second time it appeared round. My suspicion is that it appeared elongated the...
That is a nice pair Steve. Thanks for the cool write-up, I have to revisit the pair with larger aperture.
I visited the pair 15 years ago from Namibia and with 17-inch, the largest available...
A bunch of us recently produced this organization of OOTW posts and links by constellation, sharing it here hoping readers of this forum will find it helpful for picking OOTW targets.
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I took a look at Dracula's Chivito with my 28-inch f/4.1 last night. I was using a 4.5mm Morpheus which delivers about 650x magnification.
It appeared like an elongated fuzzy spot with an...
Hey Brandon,
Indeed, SkySafari names NGC 6445 the Crescent Nebula. As far as I know it is called the Box Nebula or Little Gem Nebula, though there is another planetary nebula called the Box...
This past week I was at the Nebraska Star Party. I had the privilege to meet Deep Sky Forum's very own Dragan. I was able to visit with him briefly and meet some of his family. He asked me if I had...
Thanks for taking a look, Jimi! PDS 144S is about 1.1-magnitudes brighter than PDS 144N.
I know you found IRAS 23077+6707 (Dracula's Chivito) to be elongated at 1040x. The brightest part if its...
I looked at this object Friday night under less than optimal conditions. The transparency was sub par due to smoke. The seeing was good so I was able to use high power. At 1040x the pair looked like...
Very interesting object! I'll hopefully be able to try it in August.
Jeff Kanipe devotes a couple of pages to this little nebula in the Annals of the Deep Sky vol. 8 from page 132: "Interlude: A...
The 3-volume atlas was available in digital format (PDF) on DVD at one time by the publisher. This thread on CloudyNights for 2022 has more information and links. Owen Brazell may have something to...
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I also took a 15 minute photo with the...
I don't have a complete index from her articles, but entered this object in my database of observed and 'planning to observe' DSOs at that time or perhaps earlier if I ran across it in a journal...
Thanks Steve and Carlo! Also Steve for the GN designation. Using that for a Google search did produce some results. As I understand it, the GN 20.43.9 designation is only mentioned in a 1980's era...
Nice choice for OOTW! This nebula is also in Neckel and Vehrenberg's Atlas of Galactic Nebulae as GN 20.43.9 (though SIMBAD doesn't include the alias).
I haven't looked for it, but Sue French...
Now, I've never really thought of Cygnus as a summer constellation. Even when the constellation's Alpha star features prominently in the so-called "Summer Triangle" we all have read about ad nauseum...
Akarsh enhanced a PanStarrs g band Image that show the knot that I have been seeing over the last several nights. Last night I tried a Sloan G filter and it made the knot easier to see. It is...