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Hey guys, I had a good night observing on the Central Coast. The seeing was only average at best, but it was just nice to catch some photons.
The highlights were NGC 2440, an extraordinary PNe in Carina which looks like a bow tie with jets at either end, Upsilon Carinae, which is a lovely double where the primary is blue and the secondary green, just 5" apart.
Upsilon Carinae is just about a degree away from Eta, and so I spent a good deal of time enjoying her as well. I found another nice colour contrasting double in the vicinity, Dunlop 94, which has a yellowy orange primary and a blue secondary, not quite as magnificent as Albireo, but definitely a distant cousin!
I had another good look at Mars last night, the polar ice cap and some dark markings on the disc were evident, but because the seeing was not up for lots of magnification, it was not quite as good a view as I had last week. Still, magnificent!
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