Location: North Casino (-28.81, 153.07)
Date: 18/9/06
Time: 1:25am to 3am (95 mins)
Equipment: 20x80 Andrews triplet binoculars
http://www.andrewscom.com.au/site-section-11.htm $199 pair
Rested my head and elbows on a banana lounge.
Star map in my head. (27 years experience)
Objects seen with binoculars: 119 DSO including 33 DSO in the Magellanic Clouds.
22 Open Clusters
Messiers 38, 36, 37, 35, 41, 46, 47, 45, 93
NGCs 752, 2516, IC2391, IC2602, 3114, 3293, 3532, 3766, 2547, 2451, 2477, 2264, IC410
14 Globular Clusters
M 2, 15, 30, 79,
N 104, 362, 1261, 1851, 4833, 4372, 2808, 288, 6752, 6362,
15 Diffuse Nebulae
M 1, 42, 43, 78,
N 1499*, 3372, IC2944, 1977, 2024, Barnard's loop below M78, 2237, 2174, 1435, 2467
5 Planetary Nebulae
non Messier
N 7662, 246, 7293, 7009, 1360,
30 Galaxies
LMC, SMC
M 31, 32, 110, 33, 74, 77
N 7331, 55, 7793, 300, 1313, 1553, 1566, 1792, 1808, 1316, 1365, 1380, 1399, 1350, FornaxDwarf, 1097, 247, 253, 1398, 6744, 7582-7590
plus
5 in the SMC
330, 346, 371, 419, 456
28 in the LMC+
2070, 2100, 2080, 2079, 2122, 2103, 2018, 1910, 1876, 1850-54-58, 1770, 1722, 1743, 1711, 1763-69, 1935-36, 1966, 1955-74, 2004, 2020, 2032-35, 1948
* Used a Lumicon UHC filter to confirm the California neb.
+ Desktop Universe provided NGC numbers for the LMC objects seen, they were not all know for memory.