Kieken
01-09-2005, 04:22 AM
The last 2 night were pretty good (last night was the best one this year) so I've managed to see 2 new PN.
First one was M76. It's invisible to the naked eye from where I live. With Skyglow it's visible but you need to know where to look at. With Ultrablock it was easy. Bit to easy. Just point and look. It looked a bit like this: M76 (http://users.pandora.be/willy.geys3/Astronomie/Tekeningen/12''/M76.jpg). It had 2 bright regions near the edges and a black part in the middle. It was pretty large since this sketch was made with a magnification of 240x.
The other one was PK64+15.1. It's visible in Lyra. This one is at the limit of my current equipment. With the Ultrablock it was a very faint round blob only visivle for 50% of the time. I hope that the OIII would help but still .... . Sketch was made @ 240x. PK64+15.1 (http://users.pandora.be/willy.geys3/Astronomie/Tekeningen/12''/PK64+15.1%20of%20M1-64.jpg) is just 0.3'x0.3' large and has a magnitude of 13.3 (surface brightness 10.33).
First one was M76. It's invisible to the naked eye from where I live. With Skyglow it's visible but you need to know where to look at. With Ultrablock it was easy. Bit to easy. Just point and look. It looked a bit like this: M76 (http://users.pandora.be/willy.geys3/Astronomie/Tekeningen/12''/M76.jpg). It had 2 bright regions near the edges and a black part in the middle. It was pretty large since this sketch was made with a magnification of 240x.
The other one was PK64+15.1. It's visible in Lyra. This one is at the limit of my current equipment. With the Ultrablock it was a very faint round blob only visivle for 50% of the time. I hope that the OIII would help but still .... . Sketch was made @ 240x. PK64+15.1 (http://users.pandora.be/willy.geys3/Astronomie/Tekeningen/12''/PK64+15.1%20of%20M1-64.jpg) is just 0.3'x0.3' large and has a magnitude of 13.3 (surface brightness 10.33).