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Well, I saved a local copy to my laptop. Hope it is ok to repost it here. Looks like the astrophotographer has removed all his content from CloudyNights too.
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Well, I saved a local copy to my laptop. Hope it is ok to repost it here. Looks like the astrophotographer has removed all his content from CloudyNights too.
Mel
An imager just sent me a note with his deep image of the M13 clouds.
https://www.astrobin.com/xgxp1s/
It lines up really well with our visual sketches.
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I showed the M13 IFN/galactic cirrus to many at the Oregon Star Party with my 30"F2.7. It's a great view - the cluster (with star colors), the galaxy, the fainter galaxy, IFN... All observers saw the...
A difficult object because of scale. My drawing:
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Ah yes, how to rate seeing. Rarely is it (seeing) good enough, so my typical response is that seeing is poor to medium. But yeah, being limited to 300x, maybe up to 500x during moments, is not great...
The main thing is to make it to your eyepiece. Last night was average transparency at best and poor to medium seeing. My 30 inch with its 81 inch focal length is not the ideal telescope to look at a...
Seen straight away after orienting myself. Really pretty field.
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My observation last night under very transparent skies (SQM=21.8)
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The M104 sketch was done mostly at 115x, some at 190x. Mel Bartels
In retrospect, I didn't see the extremely faint oval ring, but I did see the severely tilted oval of the extended halo. The portion above M104 is a little easier and a bit pointed; the portion below...
If you look at my drawing of M31 with a 30 inch f2.7, you'll see that I saw some of these in-tight dust lanes. Difficult to draw in an ultra-wide angle sketch.
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Per your other posting, yes,...
My drawing of NGC459 with the 30 inch
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Palomar 5 is tough! I had to look exactly in the correct location then with a bit of patience I saw three layers that I tried to illustrate:
bright white stars nearby with a couple across the...
That's quite a star hop - 4 deg from Draco's head. I tried winging it but wasn't sure what I was looking at. So star asterism to asterism I went.
Complicating looking for the faintest tidal stream...
On an incredible night (21.9, rock solid seeing) I found the tidal stream to be quite straightforward, holding it nearly continuously. Really pretty.
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Next to the Antenna Galaxies is a wonderful galaxy that looks like one of the antenna galaxies but sans antenna - a phantom. Just a slight nudge back and forth centers one then the other. It's a...
Transparency was wonderful! It makes such a difference.
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Last night was beautifully transparent, dry, though a little windy and cold.
NGC 5907, the so-called Splinter Galaxy, was so bright that I winced.
I saw a bright wall of IFN to the side of...
Lots more detail in the larger scope: the swirls and streamers go on and on.
One eyepiece, the 25mm ES 100 deg, has an oversized exit pupil, which surprisingly does really well. The 1 deg FOV is...
So, I went out under 21.8 skies and managed to see substantial parts of the M81-81 to Polaris IFN with 7x50 binocs. Not quite as much or as detailed as J Gardavsky's inspiring observations and...
Abell 21, nicknamed the Medusa
A little hard to find at first because it was fainter than I expected. But after I settled in, a pretty sight.
Surrounded by a moat of darkness; surprised that...
I've managed a most marvelous observation that I will remember the rest of my life: following the arc of Integrated Flux Nebula or galactic cirrus from beyond Polaris to beyond M81-82. I was able to...
Wonderful observation Howard - inspiring - must get back to the Triplet asap
Here's my obs from years ago - how time flies - with my 13" F3.0
The tail was at the limit but was clearly seen 100%...
Here's my view with my 25 inch. I see the inner halo along with the faint ejections. I need to return to it because it does give the feeling that more is visible, just beyond detectability.
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Here are three M51 sketches. The 6 inch is at very low power, where I saw a ring.
http://bbastrodesigns.com/drawings.html#M51
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