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Old 01-09-2005, 04:22 AM
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Bagged 2 new PN

The last 2 night were pretty good (last night was the best one this year) so I've managed to see 2 new PN.

First one was M76. It's invisible to the naked eye from where I live. With Skyglow it's visible but you need to know where to look at. With Ultrablock it was easy. Bit to easy. Just point and look. It looked a bit like this: M76. It had 2 bright regions near the edges and a black part in the middle. It was pretty large since this sketch was made with a magnification of 240x.

The other one was PK64+15.1. It's visible in Lyra. This one is at the limit of my current equipment. With the Ultrablock it was a very faint round blob only visivle for 50% of the time. I hope that the OIII would help but still .... . Sketch was made @ 240x. PK64+15.1 is just 0.3'x0.3' large and has a magnitude of 13.3 (surface brightness 10.33).
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