Object of the Week, July 4, 2021 – Abell 69 in Cygnus
Note: I'm posting early as I will be out of town for 2 weeks starting now. Here you go.
Another short OOTW as my time is limited, but hopefully a good challenge. And I like to continue to contribute to the hobby that I will eventually return full time once I complete my doctoral studies.
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Object of the Week, July 4, 2021 – Abell 69 in Cygnus
Extremely Faint Planetary
RA: 20 19 56 Dec: +38 24 33
Size: 25x22” Listed Mag: >20.1 (I think it is closer to mag 17). Other sources list 18.7. Apologize that I forget where I got this figure.
For this week, I decided to pick a challenge object that now I am not 100% sure if I observed it, but pretty sure that I did. I just wanted to throw it out there for all of you deep sky hounds with huge telescopes to chime in to “hopefully” validate what I saw with my 30” Starmaster more than 15 years ago. It was under good skies in the high Sierras under NELM 6.9 skies, but transparent. I was looking east, away from the skyglow to the west.
I observed this object at least 4 times and saw it only twice with my 30” reflector. I did not attempt this object with my 22” reflector though. I guess the mag figure cause me to skip it with my 22”.
I’m positive that some of you have seen it.
Notes from my 30” reflector (copied from my Abell PNe book):
314, 419 and 538x: This is an extremely faint, small round disk. Even surface brightness disk, which is seen only 50% of the time with averted vision and O-III filter. A 17th magnitude star lies 15” southeast.
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