Paddy
30-03-2014, 10:07 PM
Inspired by the threads recently started (http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/showthread.php?t=118711) by Dana on the southern LMC clusters, I trawled through wikisky and Archinal and Hynes to add more clusters to the area covered by Charts 13 (http://cloudsofmagellan.net.au/lmcchart13.htm) and 14 on Clouds of Magellan. There are certainly a lot of objects to be added here. These are some observations of a few of the clusters that I've added.
I've attached the chart that I made up for this. I will amend the charts on the web site in the near future.
Telescope 400mm f4.9 tri-dob reflector
Eyepieces 28mm UWAN, 17 mm,13 mm Ethoses, 9 mm Nagler, Paracorr
Navigation: Uranometria, attached chart, LMC Charts 13 &14 from Clouds of Magellan web site, (http://cloudsofmagellan.net.au/index.htm)
p=preceeding (W) f=following (E)
2200 Seeing good, transparency good
NGC 1944 OC in Mensa
175x 1 bright oval smooth glow within a fainter 2 halo. The central part is elongated N-S. No stars resolved. There is an attractive asterism of five stars to Sp.
Shapley/Lindsay 396 OC in Mensa
175x 45 S of NGC 1944 this is a very faint 30 round glow
Shapley/Lindsay 334 OC in Mensa
175x 1 faint round glow with noticeable central concentration.
NGC 1890 OC in Mensa
175x 1.5 glow slightly elongated p-f with marked central (stellar appearance) concentration. Resolved (foreground?) stars at p & f ends.
NGC 2000 OC in Mensa
175x 1.5 bright round grainy glow. Looks like many stars just on verge of resolving. No central concentration.
Hodge/Sexton (1966) 299
175x 10 Sp of NGC 2000 this is a small 30 bright round glow
Shapley/Lindsay 477 OC in Mensa
18 Np of NGC 2000 is the bright and concentrated 1 glow of SL 477. SL 461 and 474 form a pair of matching 2 very faint glows 10 S of SL 477 and separated by 5.
Henize Emission Nebula N205B Emission nebula in Mensa
175x 6 N of SL 477 is the rectangular 4x2 glow of N205B with aobut 8 clearly resolved stars. With UHC filter it brightens and appears larger about 4x4.
Then spent some time with some of the bright favourites for a while:)
__________________
Patrick
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410mm tri-dob (thanks to Tim Nott), SW ED80 on CG-4 with Lunt LS 50 Ha solar filter, Celestron 15x70 binoculars, top of a hill and dark skies
What day is it?"
"It's today," squeaked Piglet.
"My favorite day," said Pooh.
― A.A. Milne
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My Flickr stream (http://www.flickr.com/photos/patrick_k59/)
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I've attached the chart that I made up for this. I will amend the charts on the web site in the near future.
Telescope 400mm f4.9 tri-dob reflector
Eyepieces 28mm UWAN, 17 mm,13 mm Ethoses, 9 mm Nagler, Paracorr
Navigation: Uranometria, attached chart, LMC Charts 13 &14 from Clouds of Magellan web site, (http://cloudsofmagellan.net.au/index.htm)
p=preceeding (W) f=following (E)
2200 Seeing good, transparency good
NGC 1944 OC in Mensa
175x 1 bright oval smooth glow within a fainter 2 halo. The central part is elongated N-S. No stars resolved. There is an attractive asterism of five stars to Sp.
Shapley/Lindsay 396 OC in Mensa
175x 45 S of NGC 1944 this is a very faint 30 round glow
Shapley/Lindsay 334 OC in Mensa
175x 1 faint round glow with noticeable central concentration.
NGC 1890 OC in Mensa
175x 1.5 glow slightly elongated p-f with marked central (stellar appearance) concentration. Resolved (foreground?) stars at p & f ends.
NGC 2000 OC in Mensa
175x 1.5 bright round grainy glow. Looks like many stars just on verge of resolving. No central concentration.
Hodge/Sexton (1966) 299
175x 10 Sp of NGC 2000 this is a small 30 bright round glow
Shapley/Lindsay 477 OC in Mensa
18 Np of NGC 2000 is the bright and concentrated 1 glow of SL 477. SL 461 and 474 form a pair of matching 2 very faint glows 10 S of SL 477 and separated by 5.
Henize Emission Nebula N205B Emission nebula in Mensa
175x 6 N of SL 477 is the rectangular 4x2 glow of N205B with aobut 8 clearly resolved stars. With UHC filter it brightens and appears larger about 4x4.
Then spent some time with some of the bright favourites for a while:)
__________________
Patrick
___________________________________ __________
410mm tri-dob (thanks to Tim Nott), SW ED80 on CG-4 with Lunt LS 50 Ha solar filter, Celestron 15x70 binoculars, top of a hill and dark skies
What day is it?"
"It's today," squeaked Piglet.
"My favorite day," said Pooh.
― A.A. Milne
http://www.cloudsofmagellan.net.au/
My Flickr stream (http://www.flickr.com/photos/patrick_k59/)
http://www.iceinspace.com.au/vbiis/images/buttons/edit.gif (http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/editpost.php?do=editpost&p=1069120)