I though I'd add that the first visual observation I'm aware of was made by Dana Patchick back in April 1982, just using an 8" f/6 reflector in southern California. I assume he was using a UHC or...
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I though I'd add that the first visual observation I'm aware of was made by Dana Patchick back in April 1982, just using an 8" f/6 reflector in southern California. I assume he was using a UHC or...
Name: Abell 35
Aliases: Sh 2-313 = PK 303+40.1 = PN G303.6+40.0
Type: Emission Nebula
RA: 12h 53m 32.9s DEC: -22° 52' 22"
Constellation: Hydra
Diameter: 938" x 636"
Central Star: Companion to...
Also check out Jimi's post on I Zw 205 (UGC 11185) from 2018: Two More Ring's for Lyra
I also have an observation of NGC 3445 using Jimi's 48" dob back in May 2012, along with Paul! This was on the last of 5 nights we were observing together (Jim Chandler had cleaned the mirror during...
There's an interesting tidbit regarding MCG +10-16-024. It was missed by William and John Herschel (not surprising), but it was discovered visually in March 1856 with Lord Rosse's 72-inch Leviathan....
You don't usually see amateur images of this galaxy, but the late Rick Johnson, who sought out lesser-known interesting objects, posted this image in 2018.
I didn't see any detail in VV 124 with...
I've observed this galaxy a few times, most recently in May 2018 with Jimi's 48-inch f/4.0.
48" (5/12/18): very bright and large, irregular oval, ~5'x3'. Sharply concentrated with an extremely...
I've seen both of these a few times, but NGC 4147 really came to life (compared to previous views) in Jimi's 48-inch:
NGC 4147, a class IX globular, was well resolved and impressive at 488x. It...
Here's my 17.5-inch observation (from 26 years ago): fairly bright, large, elongated 3:1 WSW-ENE, ~4.5'x1.5'. The core is more oval, ~1.2' diameter. The galaxy has an irregular surface brightness...
Name: VV 248a = Arp 96 NED1 = UGC 3528A = MCG +14-04-010 = CGCG 362-030 = KTG 11A = KPG 116A = PGC 20028
R.A.: 07h 02m 27.4s
Dec.: +86° 34' 46" (J2000)
Con: Cepheus
Type: Sbc
Size: 0.8' x 0.6'...
Like Don, I've observed the group many times (brightest Hickson?), so here's are a couple of observations of UGC 7190 = MCG +05-29-030, which is only 11' or so southwest of The Box. But, as opposed...
Some notes with a 13.1" and 17.5":
NGC 2068 (M78): Very bright RN surrounding two stars (mag 10.4 HD 290862 and mag 10.8 HD 38563) with a third mag 13 star at the south end. Large, irregular...
Jimi, you're record of posting only objects you've observed is still intact -- we took a look at it in your scope back on April 2, 2011! This one is quite easy to find -- just 12' WNW of the bright...
Picking one observation, this is using a 13.1" at 200x:
Contains an intense, 1' core that was mottled and partially resolved, particularly around the edges. The halo was easily resolved with...
H-alpha (ionized gas) and H I kinematics for the HCG B/C/D group point to a giant, highly irregular galaxy with several knots, at least in the 2000 paper "Kinematics and morphology of ionized gas in...
I posted on CloudyNights a 4-stage sliding-scale model for PN-ISM interaction that was proposed in a 2007 paper by Wareing, Zijlstra ,and O’Brien.
• stage WZO1: the PN expands freely within the...
Oddly, Megastar shows the data source as Str-ESO, which is the abbreviation for the Stausberg-ESO Catalogue of Galactic Planetary Nebulae, and in this catalog it's simply listed as a PN (no mention...
Name: EGB 1
Aliases: Simeis 280 = LBN 624 = HDW 1 = HaWe 1 = PK 124+10.1 = PN G124.0+10.7
Type: Planetary Nebula?
RA: 01h 07m 07.6s DEC: +73° 33' 24"
Constellation: Cassiopeia
Diameter: ~5'...
I've logged Pease 1 several times, though not recently. Back in 1999 it took nearly 30 minutes to verify the planetary as I was ultra-careful to carefully identify all the marker stars in the...
This is a great galaxy group! (WBL 685). I viewed all but one of the members (MCG +06-49-057) with my 18-inch back in 2004, but Jimi Lowrey and I had a better look in my 24-inch from Grandview...
These observations were made with my 24" in late Sept. 2019 with an SQM reading of 21.3.
IC 1756: Very faint, edge-on 4:1 NNW-SSE, ~40"x10", low even surface brightness, no core. A mag 14 star...
To complete the complex, here's an observation of IC 1805 with my 18":
IC 1805, dubbed the "Heart Nebula", is a cluster (Cr 26 = Melotte 15) involved with a huge emission complex (LBN 654) . The...
Here are two observations:
18": I only took a fairly quick look at this huge HII region ("Soul Nebula" or "Baby Nebula") at the end of the evening after a long examination of IC 1805 ("Heart...
Sue French included Palomar 11 in one of her Sky & Telescope columns and described it in her 14.5".
At 245x [in my 14.5"], this low surface brightness globular appears about 3' x 2 1/4' aligned...
I made a number of observations with my former 17.5" and 18" scopes starting in the mid-1980s, but these are my two most recent with my current 24". The first was from the Bumpass Hell parking lot...