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Originally Posted by dhumpie
I wanted to know how high the glob gets over there in North Carolina.
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Heh - I cast my net as wide as I thought I needed too - clearly not wide enough
At my place in central NC it gets about 24 degrees above the horizon. From someplace high and dry, like New Mexico, that would probably be OK. From here, most of the time, thats down in the murk.
Its not often that I get summer nights like I had last week where things look that great, that low. Even NGC 6231 look amazing. Easily the prettiest single OC in the sky that I've seen.
M13 is our summertime globular jewel. It passes through the zenith every night, all summer long. Lyra and Cygnus are the other nice summer ones. I suppose that is why M57 and the Veil Nebula are so often photographed by amatures around here.
I logged my first observation of the Veil complex a month or so ago and it floored me. Easily one of the most amazing sites in the heavens.
