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Old 31-12-2005, 12:53 PM
tornado33
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A real faint fuzzy, HDW5

Tried for this faint planetary HDW5.
Star Atlas pro gives its magnitude as 14.5 H Beta, size 94 arc seconds, in Monoceros.
[IMG]http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=7853&st c=1
Sky was poor with haze, smoke and darn near 100% humidity, scope was saturated and just after finishing up all this low cloud began forming. Temperature was warm, like a sauna it felt like. A makeshift cardboard and foam 1 foot dewcap stops any water getting onto the secondary mirror.
There is also a galaxy called PGC018942 superimposed behind the planetary, pretty much invisible here.
Scott
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