For this OOTW I am choosing the other NGC planetary nebula in Lyra in NGC 6765.
I am surprised that it has not been included as an OOTW before. NGC 6765 was first
discovered by Albert Marth using...
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...
Wilson’s Object AKA MAC 0148+2733,PGC 6632,CGCG482-17
Triangulum
RA 01 48 35
DEC +27 32 54
MAG 15.3 SDSS G&R 15.5
Type Edge on Galaxies
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Hi all I am posting for Mark Friedman...
Blog update, a night of observing in France, 5-6 August 2024.
Galaxies, nebulae, a propeller, a butterfly, a flea, Calar Alto's, double stars, a cookie... heck, probably even a future OotW..!
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Hey deep sky hounds,
A brand new observing guide release is imminent. I have spent a ton of time and hours in the last 6 months working and building this guide. It contains more than just a...
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...
Emission nebula NGC6888 in Cygnus goes by Crescent Nebula, Half Moon and Ear Nebula.
Planetary nebula NGC6445 in Sagittarius goes by Little Gem, Crescent Nebula, Box Nebula, Coffin Planetary and...
Yes i/we did - with 33". In a position angle of around 100-110 degrees a little short cone reached out of the middle of M82 (down left quadrant in your sketch).
I´ve been the only one of 4 observers...
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...
At a Bortle 3- site, I found the brighter southern edge-on very faint in my 24" and the northern one was just barely glimpsed. These need good conditions!
The Wilson pair is just 11' NE of NGC 672...
You can probably tell by my wording I'm not 100% confident on the observation. Larry and I usually see things pretty much the same but on HaTr 10 we were seeing things different which doesn't sit...
I'm positive on the location and I did see something at the position. Larry and I verified what we saw using RealSky. I just couldn't quite pull it out like Larry did. Hence my wish to re-observe.
Using the guide I linked to, there is 0% chance of ending up at the wrong position. Zero.
If you are less than 100% sure of a position then something has to change. There is no substitute for...
As I wrote in the CN post I am not 100% sure I saw what could definitely be called a planetary nebula. Larry was very adamant he could see size and orientation. One thing, though, is we approached...