My numbers:
- 35 years old, observer since 1997 with few 1-2 year breaks,
- Approx. 450 observing nights in my logbooks
- 110 Messiers, 904 NGC (399 Herschels), 45 IC, 67 Caldwells (limit in...
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My numbers:
- 35 years old, observer since 1997 with few 1-2 year breaks,
- Approx. 450 observing nights in my logbooks
- 110 Messiers, 904 NGC (399 Herschels), 45 IC, 67 Caldwells (limit in...
Hello,
I'm working in oil industry, for an American company Baker Hughes Inc. It so happens they booked me for a professional training in Houston, lasting 5 straight weeks - 12th Nov till 14th Dec...
I wonder how the Pentax XW30 would compare here. Pentax is known for second-to-none optics as well. I am very satisfied with my XW7, for example yesterday it showed the NGC 51 group (6 galaxies - NGC...
I saw it few hours ago in my 18" f/4.4 under 6.2 mag skies. Easy to detect at 143x (Denkmeier 14mm) with an OIII filter - looked like a thick arc with even surface brightness.
Well, I found them too, with my 18" under 6.1 mag foggy skies. Very nice view at 200x and 286x, two almost paralell galaxies inside a nice triangle of stars. The UGC 12914 looked elongated,...
I know Piotr Brych from several polish forums. He is currently the chief editor of "Astronomia Amatorska" (literally - "amateur astronomy") magazine issued monthly. And he's running a private...
Ehh... my mistake. I saw the galaxy marked with a circle on the picture below - the PGC 2816330.
The one marked with a rectangle (PGC 10427) I failed to see.
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Hello,
My first two sketches with 18". Inversed and slightly modified in GIMP.
I'm disappointed with them, but since I remember at school I was always the worst when it came to drawing/sketching...
Well, I've seen Palomar 9 with my 13" (very easy) and Palomars 1, 2 and 13 with 18". Four down, eleven to go :-)
Last night I looked at the Veil complex with my 18" (65x with OIII filter) under 6.1 mag skies (SQM 21.0). I managed to identify - apart from the obvious - IC1340, The Thin Thread (but not the full...
6 months of waiting, but it was worth it! The scope looks great, now I'm waiting for some good weather to hunt for something faint :-)
Please check the link below. The happy owner on the first...
Well, I caught this dim fellow today with my 13" under 6.3-6.4 mag skies. It was the second attempt, the first one being unsuccessful mainly due to an inaccurate map.
The only combination that...
Hello Guys,
I'm intending to purchase one premium wide field eyepiece to fill in the gap between Delos 10mm and Pentax XW20mm. It will be used with both my Newtonians, portable 13" and stationary...
My average is 20-25 sessions per year. Most of it between April and October, since winter skies in Poland are usually cloudy. But there are exceptions, like last February, when I observed for 1 hour...
Alvin, Uwe - thanks for your replies!
It looks like I was trying to kill a tiger with a mouse trap... :confused:
Will try some time later, with a bigger gun and under better skies.
Hello,
Few days (or nights) ago I pointed my 13" f/4.6 towards the famous Seyfert's Sextet for the first time. The conditions were average, LM in Serpens Caput I estimated at 6.0-6.1 mag, seeing...
I looked at NGC5053 again last night, with my 13" Newtonian under 6.2 mag skies. The cluster was obvious at 75x (XW20), better view at 150x (Delos 10) - darker background, few stars "blinking"...
I saw this faint globular with my 13" at 150x (Axiom 10mm) one year ago, 4th May 2011. The conditions were quite good, LM of 6.3 mag and average transparency. I noted:
NGC 5053 (gl.cl. 9.9 mag, SB...
Hi Lou,
Herschel 400 is cool, it's my currently ongoing project. I've seen 366 objects already, most of the missing ones are on Autumn skies.
There is plenty of good looking galaxies in Ursa...
Yesterday, out of pure curiosity, I tried to find Palomar 4th whereabouts. Star hopping is pretty easy. I started with a nice round NGC3687, then I located the 13 mag star by which the globular...
Hello Everybody!
My name is Pawel Trybus, I am a 33-years old amateur astronomer from Poland. I've been looking at the night sky since childhood, and from January 1997 I've been keeping observing...