Although I doubt these are visual objects, some folks may want to know about these for the record. In a preprint posted this evening at astro-ph (submitted by...
Brian Skiff
bas@...
Jun 4, 2007 4:50 am
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Has there been an inventory of globulars around M101? I saw a picture that made them look like flies buzzing around my hat during a May hike in the...
I'm thinking of traveling to the coast of Massachusetts to catch the moon/Venus occultation of 18 June. As nearly as I can tell this begins at 8:46 a.m. EDST....
... I wouldn't bother traveling to the US east coast for this event. According to the charts I pulled up on CalSKY, the Moon and Venus will only be 3 degrees...
How about Cadillac Mountain on Mount Desert Island, Acadia National Park, in Maine. Just outside of Bar Harbor, at 1532 feet, it is the first point of ground...
... That's not something I keep up with, but you ought to be able to track things down via ADS and/or SIMBAD. Since M101 is a galaxy not much more luminous...
Brian Skiff
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Jun 4, 2007 6:44 pm
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... Park, in Maine. Just outside of Bar Harbor, at 1532 feet, it is the first point of ground in the continental United States that the rising sun touches....
... Are you sure about that time? A quick run on my planetarium program gives something closer to 9:05 in New England, and it's usually pretty accurate. Thanks...
I think you're right. This is in the realm of "small things matter." My Sky Map Pro is set to Albany longitude and latitude and the three hour drive due E...
Hi Daniel, I considered refractive surgery but the risk of a poor outcome has me convinced that glasses aren't so bad. And since I'd have to wear reading ...
As many of you know the Dawn mission is getting ready to launch to head to the asteroids Vesta and Ceres (dawn.jpl.nasa.gov). Fortunately, Vesta is a fairly...
... Coincidentally, I just viewed Vesta with unaided vision last Saturday night from the Grand Canyon Star Party. It was pointed out to me by Tucson amateur...
Howdy all; I was doing all the galaxies in Virgo this weekend;-) AND.I bumped into a fun observation with my 11 inch SCT at 125X on a night I rated 6/10 for ...
Here is an e-mail I posted to a local group on the faintest star seen in daylight using the 16" GOTO scope. In the previous message I made the error of...
Last night from Navajo Flats I tried the new PN, Murrell 1 at (2000) 15 06 17.1 -41 45 18 in Lupus with my 20" f/5.0 reflector but had no luck. I tried the...
Kent Wallace
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Jun 12, 2007 3:01 pm
19777
For those who care about such things, I have brought up-to-date the nighttime cloudiness data I keep, and added in the recent annual summaries (I was about a...
Brian Skiff
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Jun 13, 2007 7:07 am
19778
... 81. We ... Hi Ronald, There is another earlier observation of M81 from Europe: http://www.visualdeepsky.org/netastrocatalog/msg04644.html See description...
... mag ... naked ... observe ... of ... Elizabeth, I caught a few glimpses of asteroid 4 Vesta without optical aid on Sunday morning, May 20, during the...
The 9th magnitude globular cluster NGC 6235 is less than a degree SE of Jupiter. I stumble on it a few nights ago with my 10" f/4.7 Dobsonian while observing a...
Brian, Now that picture brings back memories!! **grin** And I see you are one of the few who call the tallest point in Az by correctly. Paul Maxson ... photo...
Last Friday night at one of our club star parties (ZLM 6.6), we had little trouble seeing Vesta with the unaided eye, at least with averted vision. In the...
David Knisely
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Jun 13, 2007 6:03 pm
19783
Brian, The 20.8 SQM readings from Mars Hill brought back memories of a time when I went to the public observing program at Lowell. I never would have thought...
Following Kent's post about Jupiter and 6235 I looked it up on Sky Map Pro and noticed, as one always does, the globs that litter this area like frog eggs in a...
IC 4634 105/610mm Traveler 13mm Nagler: stellar 7mm Nagler: tiny but bright. OIII makes nearly everything else in the FOV disappear. 4.8mm Nagler: very small,...
Has anyone seen the planetary YM 16 (PK 038+02.1) in Serpens? It's brightness is 13.0 or 14.2 (don't know which one is right) and has low surface brightness...
Hi Jan, This is a big PN at 350"x265" with a position of (2000) 18 54.9 +06 03. I was unable to see it with my 20" f/5.0 reflector but I do have a positive...
Kent Wallace
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Jun 18, 2007 1:38 pm
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Thanks Kent. I will be at the Col D'Izoard in The Alpes, at 2360 meter altitude, from July 9-18. It can be very transparent there and the SQM reads about...
Saturday evening while waiting for Jupiter to climb high enough out of the murk (for imaging), I and a couple of my astro-buddies killed time by looking at...
... Rich, There have been some good discussions about Gamma Vir on Cloudynights, including measurements by amateurs. http://tinyurl.com/create.php The...
