My observing notes as follows with my 22" – Featureless faint slightly oval disk (1.5:1) with a two stars embedded in the nebula. The 9.6 magnitude central star is off-center towards the west. The...
Hi, here's my observation from 4/8/2016: Abell 35 is a planetary nebula in Hydra ; mag: 13.3 ; size: 15' x 11' ; faint, very large and oblong in shape ; used an Astronomik OIII filter with my 21mm...
In the June Sky & Telescope Going Deep article By Dave Tosteson he mentioned his observation of Abell 851 galaxy cluster. He also started that Abell 851 is the most distant Abell galaxy cluster with...
This is one of the most famous clusters in the Southern Hemisphere, so my expectations were high when I finally saw it in its full glory during a trip to Namibia. Frankly, the first sight was a tiny...