astroron
14-04-2010, 02:11 PM
I did an all nighter last night, The weather was the best in a long time, after the air was cleared by a heavy shower in the afternoon.
I started at about 19:00 and went through to 05:15 this morning.
I spent the first few hours attempting Astro Photography, with not much success, mainly because I don't have a guide camera setup:(
I gave the picture taking away and did some good old fashioned observing:)
using the 20cm SCT, it is a different ball game to using the 40cm dob,
for a start I don"t have the ARGO NAVIS on the Celestron so it was back to Star Hopping and Setting Circles to finding things:rolleyes:
Objects observed where in no particular order, Omega Cent, Cent A, Comet 81P Wild, Saturn,Ngc 6231, the Double Globular Clusters NGC 6522 and NGC 6528 in Sagittarius, and a general tour of the Milky Way beauty spots.
Also observed where the Ring and Dumbell Planetary Nebulae, then onto some galaxies such as the Grus Triplet/quartet, this group is so much different in a 20cm to the 40cm, I was surprised how faint and small they seemed:shrug:, My memory is influenced by the views in the 40cm:(
I attempted to observe Comet 10 P Tuttle but was unable see it:( I will give it a try in the 40cm soon:)
Last object to observe was Jupiter which rose as the sky brightened and was at it's best just before I called it a Night/day at 05:15.
Closed up and off to bed at about 06:00
The dew was very heavy and the temp went down to 9deg C but I was "Snug as a bug in a rug" in the observatory, must use the 20cm more often in the future:astron::stargaze:
I started at about 19:00 and went through to 05:15 this morning.
I spent the first few hours attempting Astro Photography, with not much success, mainly because I don't have a guide camera setup:(
I gave the picture taking away and did some good old fashioned observing:)
using the 20cm SCT, it is a different ball game to using the 40cm dob,
for a start I don"t have the ARGO NAVIS on the Celestron so it was back to Star Hopping and Setting Circles to finding things:rolleyes:
Objects observed where in no particular order, Omega Cent, Cent A, Comet 81P Wild, Saturn,Ngc 6231, the Double Globular Clusters NGC 6522 and NGC 6528 in Sagittarius, and a general tour of the Milky Way beauty spots.
Also observed where the Ring and Dumbell Planetary Nebulae, then onto some galaxies such as the Grus Triplet/quartet, this group is so much different in a 20cm to the 40cm, I was surprised how faint and small they seemed:shrug:, My memory is influenced by the views in the 40cm:(
I attempted to observe Comet 10 P Tuttle but was unable see it:( I will give it a try in the 40cm soon:)
Last object to observe was Jupiter which rose as the sky brightened and was at it's best just before I called it a Night/day at 05:15.
Closed up and off to bed at about 06:00
The dew was very heavy and the temp went down to 9deg C but I was "Snug as a bug in a rug" in the observatory, must use the 20cm more often in the future:astron::stargaze: