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Pt 2 Cont …

x185 27'

NGC 2729 Galaxy *
RA: 09h 01m 28.7s Dec: +03° 43' 17"
Mag: 14.4 (P) S.B.: --- B-V: --- Size: 0.7'x0.4' Class: S0?
P.A.: 1 Inclination: --- R.V.: --- Source: RC3 *

This eg is more or less N from a mag 9-10 pair by about 3', they are in about PA 60 with about 20-30" sep (this is an unrecorded pair). Fairly LSB spot of haze about 30" diameter, round, grows broadly and slightly to centre without core or nucleus.



x185 27'

NGC 2729 Galaxy *
RA: 09h 01m 28.7s Dec: +03° 43' 17"
Mag: 14.4 (P) S.B.: --- B-V: --- Size: 0.7'x0.4' Class: S0?
P.A.: 1 Inclination: --- R.V.: --- Source: RC3 *

This eg is more or less N from a mag 9-10 pair by about 3', they are in about PA 60 with about 20-30" sep (this is an unrecorded pair). Fairly LSB spot of haze about 30" diameter, round, grows broadly and slightly to centre without core or nucleus.



x185 27'

IC 2420 Galaxy *
RA: 08h 51m 33.8s Dec: +03° 06' 02"
Mag: 15.0 S.B.: --- B-V: --- Size: 0.4'x0.4' Class: C
P.A.: --- Inclination: --- R.V.: --- Source: PGC *

This is a very tiny and very faint eg probably less than 15", nothing more than a tiny, consistent SB scrap of round gossamer.



x185 27'

IC 2432 Galaxy *
RA: 09h 04m 39.5s Dec: +05° 30' 43"
Mag: 15.5 S.B.: --- B-V: --- Size: 0.6'x0.3' Class:
P.A.: 128 Inclination: --- R.V.: --- Source: PGC *

This is again a very, very faint and tiny eg about 15" diameter, round and no evidence of central brightening and of consistent, very low SB. No stars associated.



x185 27'

IC 525 Galaxy *
RA: 09h 01m 22.6s Dec: -01° 51' 10"
Mag: 15.0 S.B.: --- B-V: --- Size: 1.0'x0.3' Class: S
P.A.: 11 Inclination: 6 R.V.: --- Source: PGC

This eg is in a pretty blank part of the field that is dominated by a long straggling chain of mag 10-12 * to its south. Probably slightly elong oval in about PA 0, 20" across if that, patch of consistent SB weak milk with no real central brightening.



That done, my thoughts turned to elsewhere. A short peek at Saturn turned into 15 minutes – the seeing was getting nice and I then lined up the first object I wanted to research, completed a very detailed observation and looked up to see …

CLOUD … forming everywhere at once. It wasn’t coming from anywhere. It didn’t seem to be going anywhere it just popped into existence in the same way as a large bar-tab (apologies to Douglas Adams). The sky went from 80% clear to 0% clear in what seemed like 2 minutes flat! Yes, all cloud is annoying, but this was particularly irritating because it was very low, thin enough to just see 1st magnitude stars through (but nothing else) and completely stationary. And, it stayed that way until we gave up the fight at 2.45am and packed up.

Of course, half-way through the disassemble and pack, a few breaks here and there started to appear and by the time everything was stowed, we set out for home under a pristine sky.

Astronomy is a hard mistress, is it not?

Anyways, 2 nice hours is better than 0 hours, isn’t it?

Thanks for putting up with me for the last 2 ½ years on this forum and in particular thank you to those who regularly post here in the Observations Forum for you friendship.


Best,

Les D