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Hi,

One of my favorite sky vistas! Marvelous, the beautiful pair of M7 and this tiny GC.

14 inch Newton under dark sky in Spain:

Very small, round GC without a noticeable increase in...

Hi all,

I tried to spot Laevens with my 14 inch Newton (350 mm) in two different nights under Bortle 2 skies but I couldn’t detect the GC so far. I used 65x, 114x and 168x to reveal the glimpse of...

Hi Howard,

The brightest parts are visible through a 16” telescope. As you mentioned transparency has to be excellent. The only region that I could spot is that one that appears bright and dense...

This is actually a double post to those from 31. august. Didn’t notice that I already posted my observation.

Oliver

Hi Wouter,

The 25" was a rental at Tivoli Astrofarm. The 14" I owned myself in 2013, the 21" is a second hand home built Dobson which I use since last December. I tried Laevens 3 with the 14" in...

Hi everyone again,

I tried to spot Laevens 3 with my smaller scope in my home region under Bortle 3 sky and interestingly I succeeded again. Scope was a 21 inch Newton. The GC could be hold using...

Hi, Mathias,

Excellent comparison!

Oliver

Another try of spotting Laevens 3 this time with a smaller scope, my 21” Dobson and the GC appeared at 231x relatively easily. Using averted vision the GC could be hold as a faint glow with...

Hi,

Circular and quite large in my 14” Dobson under Bortle 2 sky. At 114x and using an OIII filter K 1-16 is visible as a very faint nebula around a fairly bright star. Using adverted vision, the...

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I know this is a very old thread but I could observe R Aquarius under fair conditions and Bortle 1 sky (Namibia) recently. I saw a S-shaped nebula around a star. The star itself did not have...

I forgot to mention the used telescope. It was a 25“ Dobsons.

Oliver

Hi all,

Just right back from a recent Namibia trip. I gave Laevens 3 another try and I succeeded. At 178x & 278x I could spot a faint glow which I could successfully hold using averted vision....

Hi all,

NGC 7789 is a truly interesting object, that among rich field observers appears in 10x50 binoculars as a round nebula. Individual stars can hardly be seen in contrast to views in much...

Hi,

Nearly 10 years later I have observed NGC 281 several times but because of its detailed structure it’s not an easy object. The nebula can be observed with UHC and OIII-filters but does not...

Hi everyone,

Started an attempt recently with my 14 inch and with a 21 inch newton. Although I tried several mangification 600x down to 180x (21 inch Newton) but could finally not see anything....

Hi all,

On 3th of April we had very good conditions despite of the fact that low clouds were passing. I could finally spot the brightest part of the tidal tail with my 14 inch Newton at 80x and...

Hi Uwe,

Looking back through my observations from 2016 I found that the arc is visible till Saiph:

"[...] I tried to observe [Barnard?s Loop] with my 10x50 binoculars together with two 2?...

Hi Uwe,

I observed the nebula from Roque de los Muchachos at 2300 asl in January 2016 with my 14 inch Dobson and saw this:

Directly next to a star, a fairly bright nebula appears at a small...

I observed M76 in 2016 with my 14 Dobson at 290x, SQM-L 21.70: Already recognizable as a bright little dumbbell at 65x. Very bright, so that it can be magnified up to 290x without problems. With OIII...

Hi,

With 14” I gave it a try and was surprised how bright this nebula really is:

“Oval, quite bright nebula, which can already be seen at 65x. At 430x an oval nebula appears, which with...

Hi Mathias,

Excellent work.

Oliver

Hi,

I also could spot the nebula with an 10x50 binocular and doing that I would say the object is visible even with smaller apertures.

I observed the Helix-Nebula several times from Namibia...

Hi,

Last Sunday I captured some photographs of the comet. Left you can see Neowise at dusk and right a stacked crop.

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While the camera was taking those images me and my children were...

Hi Raúl,

I observed Longmore 16 from Namibia in 2018:”This planetary nebula is easy to spot at 100x. However, a diffuse spindle is initially visible, which lies in the middle of a star field. With...

Hi Uwe, Hi everybody

I started an attempt last December. With my 14 inch Dobson I could spot MBM 54 as a faint glow northwest of NGC 7497 at 65x. It was only visible with adverted vision and...