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...
Thanks Scott and Steve for your response. You showed, that this thing is doable, even from the US.
I'm aware of the southern declination but was hoping that the forum consist also from observer...
I have a single observation of the pre-PN Cotton Candy nebula with my 18" Starmaster back in July 2010. The seeing conditions probably weren't great from +41° latitude (Golden State Star Party), and...
Nice pick, Uwe! But at a declination of -32.5, you aren't going to get many takers since it's 6.5* farther south than my recent OotW! However, it's only 0.1-magnitude fainter than PDS 144N, so at...
Congratulations on perhaps being the first to nab this one and see some structure!
The discovery paper ("Dracula's Chivito: Discovery of a Large Edge-on Protoplanetary Disk with Pan-STARRS") lists...
Thanks for your report, Jimi. Glad to hear that you saw some size to it. I saw it in early February shortly after the paper on it was published. It was so low in the sky that I was forced to use my...