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Originally Posted by orestis
Great Stuff Doug  ,glad to hear that your out there observing again.
Nice work on starting the ngc 2516 sketch,i did one last month i have attached it.Does it look like what you saw?It takes a little patience when sketching oc's.
Mars is just amazing in good detail your description is pretty much what i saw.When i viewed it the NPC was outlined and just stood out so much. Nice sketch .
Regards orestis  |
Wow, lovely sketch. Yes, that gels - it certainly reminds me of what I observed last night. I tried to compare my view with O'Meara's sketch in Caldwall Objects, but couldn't work it out.
The suspected doubles, and one triple, seemed obvious to me, but I did have a 11mm Nagler in, which only gives me around 44x, so perhaps I was fooling myself.
I also visited a few old favorite doubles in Orion, notably eta Orionis, which at 180x resolved into a figure 8 dumbbells. Very tight double, must be around 2" separation, or just under, but pleasing. I also forgot to mention seeing seemed so steady, even Rigel's companion was throwing a diffraction ring.
I also went off looking for NGC121, but couldn't even find 47 Tuc, to my shame. Just not enough naked eye stuff from Melbourne to get close. I didn't have my atlas or binos outside, or my Argo fired up. I tried sweeping with my 6mm Nagler zoom, but the FOV was too tight.
Mars.... someone's posted an image they took at the same time I was observing ....
http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/a...se.php?a=70677
... if the white area below the dark band at the north pole is the cap, then I definitely saw (and sketched) it!