hello everyone
just a small report from my second night out since i got the dob
had a quick look at the moon before it went too far west with the 15mm plossl
what can i say excellent viewing (this was at about 6.15 pm
then i swung over to good ol saturn wasnt as clear as it was the first night though still managed five of its moons
went and had good long stare at m42
and the trap. iam starting to see more all the time
then i swung over to the large magellanic cloud took my a while to line that up in the finders
i saw stars surrounded by an nebula and i looked it up on the net and i may have seen the tarantula nebula i compared it from memory to a picture from the net so i am reasonably sure it was ngc2070 (can anyone confirm this? comments are welcome here
) it was faint but i could definatly make out the nebula
cool stuff an other one i can scratch off my list if it was (allmost sure
)
by this time jupiter was almost high enough to have a look at, i almost had it lined up when it disapeared behind clouds (muttter mutter) so i ddnt get it this time aound iether
so i called it a night cant complain because i spent a great deal of time in the lmc until the good ol spotties came on.
i mainly used the 15mm plossl apart from the 2 inch 32mm gso i used that for scanning the milky way
sorry people fingers in gear before brain
what i should have said it appeared small not faint (sowy still having a lot of extreme exitement at what i can see with the new dob
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