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5 Jan 2009 Average seeing, bit over quarter moon.
Finish off (mostly) my list for Columba.
HJ3760 (2215)
Revisit this triple and it is easy to split the main pair making a pleasing view. The fainter 3rd of the system has a hint at 60x averted and jumps out
with averted at 150x.
Documented: Magnitudes 7.7 & 10.6 at 29.1", 7.8 & 8.4 at 7.4"
HJ3740 (2220)
Cleanly split and a nice uneven pair, initial impressions of colour were pale yellow and orange but after viewing the secondary takes on a greenish hue.
Documented: Magnitudes 6.8 & 8.3 at 23.7"
HJ3728 (2230)
Star hop from HJ3740 to the nice globular NGC 1851 and from there to
HJ3728.
The magnitude difference between these two makes them a challenge with a hint at 60x averted, stronger at 90x in the correct orientation and at the correct
distance. Primary a yellow-orange.
Documented: Magnitudes 6.8 & 10.1 at 10.1"
Daw 38 (2240)
Very faint sky is bright, saw on map, tried it, looked it up afterwards and well, no hope.
Documented: Magnitudes 10 & 10.4 at 1"
HJ3735 (2245)
Two almost identical little orange orbs cleanly separated and very nice with a bright star nearby.
Documented: Magnitudes 8.2 & 8.4 at 7.2"
HWE 12 (2255)
Faint and impossible to say as conditions not too good.
Documented: Magnitudes 8.9 & 10.0 at 2.3"
HJ3745 (2310)
Very hard to say.
Documented: Magnitudes 8.5 & 10.5 at 13.3"
COO 32 (2315) (also INN 740)
No split.
Documented: Magnitudes 8.6 & 10.6 at 13"
Conditions too poor.
Skywatcher refractor a nice telescope, tend to find colours are often hard, could be my aging eyes.
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