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Anyone, at anytime, ought to feel welcome to share any observation, from any location, using any telescope and any aperture.

It's a hobby, not a competition.

also: I really like the sketches...

Emission nebula NGC6888 in Cygnus goes by Crescent Nebula, Half Moon and Ear Nebula.

Planetary nebula NGC6445 in Sagittarius goes by Little Gem, Crescent Nebula, Box Nebula, Coffin Planetary and...

One observation in my log for this beauty during my first ever week of observations under southern skies: Sutherland, in the Karoo desert of South Africa.

It was the night of 9 January 2008 and I...

This pair is Holmberg 335. My log tells me I observed it twice, both times in a 12" SCT.

First observation in April 2011 from the Alps:


NGC4125 (Holmberg 335A) is elongated WSW to ENE, quite...

Using the guide I linked to, there is 0% chance of ending up at the wrong position. Zero.

If you are less than 100% sure of a position then something has to change. There is no substitute for...

This may help.

I'll be blogging in Dutch, from now on! :-)

Nice one, Owen!

2 Observation in my log. The first in September 2009 in the French Alps using my 12" SCT @ 191x / 26'. Nothing knotty observed but I did note something "stellar":


16mm Nagler...

Blog update, a night of observing in France, 5-6 August 2024.

Galaxies, nebulae, a propeller, a butterfly, a flea, Calar Alto's, double stars, a cookie... heck, probably even a future OotW..!
...

"the Flea"

That's a fitting nickname!

Thanks Steve and Carlo! Also Steve for the GN designation. Using that for a Google search did produce some results. As I understand it, the GN 20.43.9 designation is only mentioned in a 1980's era...

Now, I've never really thought of Cygnus as a summer constellation. Even when the constellation's Alpha star features prominently in the so-called "Summer Triangle" we all have read about ad nauseum...

Great pick, Akarsh!

Two observations in my log for this pair.

First in September 2013 from the French Ardennes in my 12" SCT. I discerned both galaxies but did not observe much detail. 179x /...

Amazing, indeed, that this one hasn't made it to OotW before..!

My most recent observation for this globular was less that 2 months ago, the early morning of 2 April in France (session / blog). I...

... and here's the second blog: https://clearskies.eu/blog/astrotrips/10apr24/

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Two observations in my log for the Jewel Box, back in 2008 during my first visit to Sutherland, South Africa, in the early days... I mean nights of my astronomy 'career'.

The morning of 8 January,...

I blogged: https://clearskies.eu/blog/astrotrips/2apr24/

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Cheers,


Victor

This week's OotW is not a large object. It does not reveal a lot of detail. It's not an Arp, a Hickson or a Vorontsov-Vel'yaminov nor is it included in any other "usual suspects" list and - despite...

One observation in my log for this one. 27 February 2019 under moderately dark skies in the French Ardennes, 14" SCT @ 168x / 29':


A faint, east-west elongated, oval glow, even in brightness....

Two observations in my log for this galaxy, the first in March 2007 under Dutch skies using an 8" SCT @ 78x / 38':


Quite faint, somewhat elongated east to west, slightly brighter in the middle...

A great pair! The galaxy is easily overlooked by many, that I am pretty sure of.

6 observations in my log for the globular, one for the galaxy:

NGC4147

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3 observations in the...

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When there's a bit of moisture in the sky, it will lead to "Flaming Star conditions", as I like to call it: halos surrounding brighter stars that all try to mimic IC405.

Dew on the optics and...

How would you like to observe something new?

The nebula that is this week's OotW has probably been around for ages, hardly something "new". What makes it new is the fact that it has seems to have...

An intriguing object, even more so because of what I know about it ever since our resident encyclopedia Scott H. recently delved deeper into the nature of the nebula NGC1931. But I will of course...