I observed the Egg Nebula last night with my 12" Meade Lightbridge. The seeing was uncommonly good, but there was a lot of haze, so things were dimmer than normal. At 85x (18mm ES82), it was clearly...
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I observed the Egg Nebula last night with my 12" Meade Lightbridge. The seeing was uncommonly good, but there was a lot of haze, so things were dimmer than normal. At 85x (18mm ES82), it was clearly...
I've observed some planetary nebulae with 742x on a 94mm achromat and 381x on a 63mm achromat. Aperture for aperture, that's very high magnification. I've tried 2000x on my C8, but that was not very...
I have actually tried looking for 2MASS 02223046+4221370 in my 12" Meade Lightbridge, well before reading about it here. That was before I knew how faint it is. Of course my attempts have been...
I haven't seen Leo 1 yet, but I've suspected IC 10 in my 63mm Zeiss Telemator and seen it without any difficulty at all in a 6" f/8 achromat at 40x. In my 12" f/5 Lightbridge, I can begin to see...
I would say it's around mag 11, possibly a little fainter. The bright background of the galaxy makes an estimate tricky and it probably appears fainter than it is, photometrically.
Partially...
By some sort of miracle, it cleared partially here yesterday evening, around 10.30 PM. I immediately set up my 63mm Zeiss Telemator, to take a look at the SN through the sucker holes. I found the...
I'll have to try it, but it doesn't get more than barely a hand's width above the horizon here from my norther outpost.
Clear skies!
Thomas, Denmark
Wow, what an object! I must definitely try it this winter.
Clear skies!
Thomas, Denmark
I've seen all four shown here with my 12" Meade Lightbridge and 9mm ES100 under good, rural skies. NGC 7331 showed vague hints of its dust band. There's a companion galaxy on the other side of the...
Did you use the 22" or the 14"?
Clear skies!
Thomas, Denmark
I can see it in my 63mm Zeiss as a fuzzy star, using high magnifications, but that is about it. In my 12", with its poor optics, the two lobes are hinted at at 340x.
Clear skies!
Thomas,...
Funny, I was thinking yesterday of suggesting this object as an OOTW. I've observed it recently quite a few times in my 12" dob. The scope has very poor optics, unfortunately, but still I'm able to...
Do you want figures only for the core, which is extremely hard to find? Are we talking only visually visible galaxies? Do you consider extremely faint, small objects with intrinsically very high...
Wut? That one is faint and dim visually. Even the core is hard to detect in a small telescope.
Clear skies!
Thomas, Denmark
Hi everyone
A Danish astroimager has spotted something in one of his shots near NGC 6820/NGC 6823. It's a small bubble centered on the star TYC 2139-1802-1. It's faintly shown in POSS II red:
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In the grey companion book to U2000.0, NGC 4486A are listed as having a SB of 11.3 and a total mag of 11.6, while NGC 4486B is listed as 10.3 and 13.3, respectively. That is clearly an error, as NGC...
NGC 4486A, a companion to M87, comes to mind. The SB per square arc minute is around 10.3 or something. It's extremely small and compact and looks like a star at anything below 150x. It is very...
We're not talking about total magnitude, but surface brightness. Tremendous difference here.
I've never been able to so much as get a glimpse of this galaxy from my northern outpost, not to mention seeing any kind of detail. This observation is awesome.
Clear skies!
Thomas, Denmark
Dem Telekits sure look pretty!
Clear skies!
Thomas, Denmark
After a most fantastic last night with my 12" Meade LB and 9mm ES100, that eyepiece is now my favorite. It just performed exceptionally well with the 12", especially on galaxies and small, bright...
I've yet to give my 8.8mm ES82 a real test, but so far, I am very impressed. I tested the 11mm ES82 against my 10mm Zeiss ortho on faint stars in NGC 2158 with my 6" refractor and could not determine...
I have observed this one with my 63mm Zeiss. I couldn't really see any obvious details, but there was something "funny" about the star, like it wouldn't really focus.
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Thomas,...
It must be a galaxy. Look at it in this image:
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/0806/M51HST-GendlerM.jpg
It doesn't have the same color as the HII regions in M51, at all. It looks like an...
Finally an object were I can contribute! I've seen this object quite a few times in my 63mm Zeiss refractor. Once I observed it from indoors, looking out a glass door! And it was still easy to see....