What an enjoyable read that was Adam, thank you!
If you are not a writer, you should be ..
Have you been able to tackle any of the objects in the May/June observing challenge (I see you have viewed one of them- 83)? The challenge focuses on the constellation, Hydra.
Little bit of everything in it- cluster, glob, galaxies and even a reddest known carbon star.
And wow, I would be excited to read a report from you on your obs from it.
Looking forward to more reports from you!
By the way, I think you are a legend for finding all those objects without a finder
. And I'm so glad you are learning the sky manually. Robert worded it magnificently.
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If you spend your whole life looking through the "narrow porthole" of a telescopic view and dialling up objects, you will never learn the romance and beauty of the sky.....when star hopping, it is the journey there that counts...... the objects we stumble upon when on the way to the target, and the unique feeling we get when we move over the sky with our finders and sighting devices.
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I think it connects us with the sky better. Aye, so many star fields burned into my head trying to find objects on a star hop.
When I have lots of trouble finding something, I do what Robert said, and that's googling an image with the star field around it. Manual star hopping has taught me patience, something I've never had before.
Alas, I handle a lot more things in life better now because of it.
A renovation at my home that has taken the last 6 months is one of them
, finally coming together now though.