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Clear at last
It was clear last night after lots of cloudy nights so I got up at 2am just before the moonset and had a look at the following.
Observing report Sunday morning 17 Oct 2010
Glen Cozens, North Casino, NSW (lat -28.82, long 153.07)
From 2:30am to 4:20am DST (GMT +11)
Moonset 2:35am, astro twilight 4:47am
Temp 9C to 11C, slight W wind (10kph), no dew, very clear
Scope 12” (30cm) black GSO Dobsonian f/5
EP 30mm (2”) with 93’ field, 50 times (it is easy to find things with a 1.5 degree field)
8x50mm finder (no argo)
Light pollution
Brisbane to North, slight pollution
Gold Coast in NNE, worse than Brisbane
Lismore in E, slight pollution
Casino bad but behind house in SW
130 DSO seen (not counting LMC objects)
The numbers below are NGC numbers.
Open clusters (26 objects)
M45, 752, M34, M36, M37, M38, 1893, M35, 2158, M46, M47, M41, 2362, M93,
2477, 2541, 2547, 2516, 3114, 3293, IC2581, IC 2602, Mel 101, 2818, M44, M67
Globular clusters (9)
104, 362, 288, M79, 1851, 2298, 2808, 1261, 3201
Nebulae (25)
1435 in M45, part of 1499, 1931, M1, 2175, 2261, 2264, Rosette 2237,
M42, M43, 1973-75-77, 1999, 2023, 2024, M78,
part of Barnards loop near 2112, 2359, IC2177, 2467, 3372, 3324, 3247, 3199
Planetary nebulae (10)
7293, 246, 1514, 2392, 2438, 2440, 1360, 3132, 3242, 2818
Galaxies (47)
Outer edge of Milky Way, SMC, LMC, M31, M32, M110, M33, M74, M77, 7552, 7582, 7590, 7599
1055, 247, 253, 55, 300, 7793, 1792, 1808, 1617, 1596, 1566, 1549, 1553, 1546, 1533
1398, 1313, 1559, 1365, 1399, 1404, 1380, 1350, 1386, 1387, 1379, 1381, 1374
1316, 1317, 1326, 1269/91, 1531, 1532
SMC (13)
121, 249, 261, 330, 346, 371, 395, 419, 456, 460, 465, L104, 602
Also dozens of LMC objects.
Variable star Mira (mag 3?)
Also the very hot multiple star gam Vel (T shaped)
Finished with Jupiter, Callisto, Europa, Io
Last edited by glenc; 20-10-2010 at 02:12 AM.
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