Planeteries on the menu

[mickoking]

G,day all,

I had a brilliant night under the stars last night. Two objects stood out for me, both planetery nebulae; NGC 3195 in Chamaeleon and NGC 3132 in Vela.

With my 300mm Dob both object showed tantilising detail. But I was really impressed with NGC 3132. Plenty of detail is visable and that was with out my OIII filter and I was under suburban skies. I have enclosed a Hubble pic of NGC 3132 and some of the internal structure in the image is visable thru my Dob.

Check it out :thumbsup:

[Starkler]

3132 has always been my favourite :)

Planetaries are good targets for us people in suburbia as you can mitigate the light polution with higher magnifications and use of filters :)

[mickoking]

I used a magnification of x129 for NGC 3132.

Another object I viewed last night was the Globular NGC 3201, talk about easy to resolve.

[[1ponders]]

Must have been the night for it last night. Astroron took us on a bit of a tour with his 16" and OIII filter. Spirograph, Rosette, NGC2438 and one other I can't remember :P. And I tracked down the Blue Planetary and the Eskimo earlier on.

Great fun.