Hi everyone,
Below are the Zoom links for the Portland XVII Alt Az Workshop starting this Friday evening, 13 September. All times are for the Pacific Time zone (western North America).
There is...
Tried it several times but I only could pick up the very first beginnings from the main body. It looks like a hood and spans around 1'-1.5'. Along the NW side it reaches to a 16mag star. I never saw...
One observation in my log for this beauty during my first ever week of observations under southern skies: Sutherland, in the Karoo desert of South Africa.
It was the night of 9 January 2008 and I...
My first thought, when I saw the topic of this OOTW, was "surely this gem has been OOTW before", but no! My second thought was "not sure if I have observed it to be honest" and it turns out I did. My...
Hi, here's my observation from 9/29/2024: Ngc 6814 galaxy in Aquila ; mag: 11.11 ; size: 3' x 2.7' ; under sub par seeing this galaxy is easily seen but only saw it's brghter central core and part...
A new observation with my 30 inch f2.7.
Exceptional transparency - SQM 21.8.
Newly resilvered primary (30 inch f2.7).
Astonishing IFN / galactic cirrus everywhere, broken into blotches and...
Back in 1994, with an 18" at 332x: " NGC 4125 - In the same field as NGC-4121 and the brighter of the two. Nice bright center fading to the elongated edges."
"NGC 4121 - In the same field as...
This pair is Holmberg 335. My log tells me I observed it twice, both times in a 12" SCT.
First observation in April 2011 from the Alps:
NGC4125 (Holmberg 335A) is elongated WSW to ENE, quite...