The seeing was just too good to even bother going to bed, for a newbie anyway. No cloud and no moon until the wee hours.
M35 I found it a very difficult to see cluster, with two brighter stars at the top of the cluster which I found worth noting on the PDA.
M1 The crab nebula, It has been one of my favourite images on the net. To say I was just a tad dissapointed is probably accurate but I was still very happy to finally get another of those difficult to find obects in the EP. Not much more the a faint smudge, but a smudge all the same!
M37 It's funny how this cluster is listed as a lower mag than M35, yet to me seems far brighter and easier to find. Clearly visible as a cluster and a pretty easy star hop.
NGC5128 Just to the north of Omega Centauri and lower in the sky, the faint haze which I now know as 5128. Detail was minimal, with averted vision I knew it was there, but that was the best I coould come up with.
NGC4361 I hunted around inside Corvus for a while, but am yet to satisfy myself that I've clearly seen a Planetary Nebula.
I then spent the nest hour or so, checking out Scorpus and surrounds.
So many oblects and clusters, It really is a wonderful place to spend an evening, Then the moon appeared. I had my first go at A-focal photographey, courtesy of a rigel system quick adapt and a Nikon digital 5110 pont and shoot.
Now for sleeps, catch you all later.
Darren
