About 6 or 8 years ago at RTMC I viewed M57 with a 28" f/4.3 under good seeing at I'm guessing about 150x to 200x. It looked green to my 60 + year old eye. It was a quick look, the line for the...
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About 6 or 8 years ago at RTMC I viewed M57 with a 28" f/4.3 under good seeing at I'm guessing about 150x to 200x. It looked green to my 60 + year old eye. It was a quick look, the line for the...
I've seen reddish or pale pink in M 42 many times as well as green in the brighter areas with an 18' Dob with no filter. M20 has looked pinkish on some nights as well. I'll have to see if my old...
Thanks everyone for the info. I guess there is only a handful of objects, I thought there were a lot more. I guess I'll concentrate on the flat galaxy catalog I've been working on for awhile. I...
What are the top 10 brightest tidal tails visible?
Hello fellow observers. The last 10 years I've been using a 18" Obsession f4.5 from desert skies, SQM 21.4 to 21.65. I've seen the tidal tail...
Steve , your nickname should be Steveopedia. Thanks for all you have done for deep sky nuts like myself. Hope to see you again
at Grandview this summer.
Hi Miles, I stand corrected. I knew it was near M5, I did a quick look in the pocket atlas, I should have used uranometria. I plan on taking another look in
the 18", and this time I will bring...
IC 1101
RA 15 10 56.1
Dec +05 44 41
Dia. 1.2' x 0.6'
This galaxy lies at the center of Abell 2029 one billion light years away. NED lists a mag. of 14.73, it looks...