[Paddy (Patrick)]

Some notes from a few weeks ago - one of my first sessions with my new Ethos 17mm

Observations 14/3/2013

Telescope 400mm f4.9 tri-dob reflector
Eyepieces 28mm UWAN, 17mm Ethos,13,9 mm Naglers, Paracorr
Navigation: Uranometria, Night Sky Observer’s Guide

Seeing excellent, transparency fair

p=preceeding f=following

NGC 2257 GC in Dorado

175x 4’ round smooth soft glow with indistinct edges, no resolved stars, no core and a triangle of foreground stars on the following edge (one of the LMC’s GCs)

NGC 2249 OC in Dorado

175x 2’ round and concentrated soft glow with no stars resolved and no core (catalogued as a GC in Uranometria but listed as an open cluster in the LMC by Archinal and Hynes)

H60b11 GC in Dorado

175x Near NGC 2249, it could be its twin, but perhaps a little larger and brighter.

NGC 2210 GC in Dorado

175x 2’ bright round concentrated luminosity with distinct core and perhaps a slightly grainy appearance. One of the 13 GCs of the LMC

NGC 2442 GX in Volans

175x 7’ wide p-f bar with bright nucleus. A 4’ arm sweeps from p end and heads Sf. 3’ arm from f end heads Np and is slightly fainter
10’ f is the 2’x1’ p-f glow of ES9-11 (GX) and 20’ N is the 2’ distinct round glow of GX NGC 2434

NGC 2808 GC in Carina

135x One of my favourite GCs, stunning in the 17mm Ethos, myriad stars resolved, a bright and concentrated GC with a dense core sitting in a magnificent starfield.

Then some fantastic views of Eta Carinae nebula, NGC 3532, Omega Centauri with 17mm Ethos and then Ghost of Jupiter at 660x!