[GUS.K (Ivan)]

Thursday night was clear so spent a bit of time on the Hydra 1 (Abell 1060) galaxy cluster (165 million years light travel time). Using my 18 inch scope and a 17.5mm Morpheus (114x) to get a general overview, I then switched to a 9mm Morpheus (222x) for a close up look. The cluster is roughly 2.5 degrees in diameter and I was able to spot about 15 members and a few more were hinted at with averted vision, but not a definite, and their magnitudes ranged from 11.4 to 14.7. Transparency was good but seeing limited me to no more than 250x, and I think the 9mm was pushing it at 222x. The brighter members were NGC's 3307, 3308 and 3309 and 3311 and 3312 with a few more NGC's and PGC's flung further afield. I'll visit this cluster again in better seeing to see if I can spot some more of it's members. I Also located Abell 3526 and 3574 in Centaurus, Abell 1631 in Corvus and Abell 1367 in Leo, I spent about 15 minutes on each, but didn't have detailed charts for these so will tackle them next session.
Thanks for reading.