I had a great night's observing last night/this morning, 20:00 started off seeing how many Messier objects could be seen with a not quite first quarter Moon, started with M4 through to M13 all were easely seen.
After a coffee break about 22:00 started on my galaxy Supernova search targeting galaxies south of -30deg, I use the CCD Atlas South and Thompsons galaxy search charts about 45 galaxies were checked for no result.
The temp got down to 2deg, Seeing was moderate to sometimes good, but averaged 7-10, Transparancy was about the same 7-10.
After the galaxy search was done I then had a look at a few objects in Cygnus , which was quite high in the North East by this time, starting with the Veil Nebula Ngc's6960/6992/6995, anyone who has seen this object in a reasonably large scope will get blowen away every time they see it.
Ngc 6888 is a large oval shaped nebula which is almost invisible without a nebula filter, such as an O111, in the 13mm Nagler was very impresive.
Other objects observed where Ngc6819 open cluster,Ngc6826 Bright blue Planatery Nebula,Ngc 6866 open cluster, M29(Ngc 6913) open cluster,.
The diffuse nebulae such as the North American and Pelican were imagined but it was hard to see any shape even with a nebula filter.
I enjoyed my tour through Cygnus while waiting for Sculpter and Cetus to get a bit higher, then it was onto Ngc55 Ngc 247 Ngc 253 and a few other Sculpter galaxies.
By this time Ngc 908 which had a bright Supernova go off about a month ago and reached mag 12,4 was high enough to see, the Supernova which is now about mag 15 was just seen using a 5mm eyepiece( 366xmag).
After looking Pegasus galaxies Ngc7331, and Stephens Quintet, which four of the galaxies weres split, It was then over to Ugc'S 12914/5 in the square of Pegasus, an interacting pair.
M31 and sister galaxies had by this time cleared the hill and was easely seen both visualy and by binoculars.
The last objects to be observed where the Fornax galaxies Ngc 1365 and the bright galaxy Ngc 1316 which has a very bright Supernova, I would say this object has reached Mag 11.9, it is the brightest supernova I have seen since Supernova 1987a, which most of you know was naked eye in the Lmc.
It was time to call it a night/day at 04:15 as the mist started to rise and I was feeling tired but very pleased with such a good night's observing.
