Nebulae

[glenc]

Now is a good time to look at the nebulae in the outer part of the Milky Way. I looked at some last night with a 12" Dobsonian using 26mm and 9.7mm eyepieces. A UHC filter was used for large emission nebulae and a deep sky filter for small nebulae and reflection nebulae. The attached tab delimited file is a list of the objects I saw. It can be copied to MS Excel.

Reference: http://www.ngcic.org/steinicke/

[GrahamL]

looked at a few of those glen.. and found 2392 after a fair bit of
searching .. wow its a small bright one ,think I was overlooking it
for quite a while.

[glenc]

Planetary nebula are hard to find, especially at low power. I had trouble finding 2392 last night then realised I was starting with the wrong star.

[erick]

......makes me feel better in my initally unsuccessful hunt for M1. I thought only ignorant newbies would do that. :D

http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/showthread.php?t=16422

[rmcpb]

Don't bet on it, its more common than you think as there are three stars equidistant that can be easily confused. Zeta Tau (the one you want), Elnuth (beta Tau) and Hassaleh (iota Auriga). Its easy to actually start searching around Elnuth unless you are careful, not that I have ever done such a thing :P