Very nice choice, Howard. Last night I pay NGC 609 a visit with my small 99mm spotting scope under good conditions. It was difficult to see, especially with the low magnification of 30x, but 50x...
I've only observed the cluster in my 24" with a significant moon up (bright sky) and poor seeing, so I had to stick to fairly low power.
At 200x; ~15 faint to very faint stars sparkle over an...
From SQM 21.0 skies west of Madrid, Spain, in September 2015:
This is a very spectacular, faint cluster. At 320x I see a fairly large group of faint stars of about 7 or 8' across next to a bright...
I found NGC609 with my 8-inch SC back in the end of March 1997 (during the Hale-Bopp nights when the comet was at its brightest). NGC609 was faint, diffuse and the cluster was similar to a faint...
Saw this back in 2003 with a 20" at 282x: "Quite faint adjacent to a pair of field stars. Can just about make out some resolution." My notes say it is also called King 3.
Open Cluster
Cassiopeia
RA: 01 38 08
Dec: +64 39 43
(Photo by Bernhard Hubl: http://www.astrophoton.com/NGC0609.htm. NGC 609 is 11th magnitude and is about 13,000 light years away. It has an...
Great post, Jimi! A few weeks ago I attempted it for the first time with my 16-inch. I tried 300x at first and it proved to be too much. So, backing down to 191x, I could see that the galaxy's core...
Hallo. I could not remember that I had seen Haro 3-75, but in fact I had! On February 14, 2017, I observed it with my 12-inch Dob and 188x magnification (unfiltered). Haro 3-75 was quite bright...
The DSF Objects of the Week for the year 2020 are now part of the collection of CSOG editions. Years 2012-2019 will follow.
https://clearskies.eu/csog/downloads/dsfootw2020/
