Bright nebula in puppis ?

GrahamL · #1 24-02-2007, 09:13 AM

I walked out and plonked my scope down the other night an brought a low power eyepiece to focus to find a bright irregular shaped nebula right in the centre of field .. unfortunately the cloud moved in right away and didn't clear for many hours .. guessing somewhere around puppis/ vela area
Any ideas what it was ?.. much appreciated.

Probably something I have been looking for and never managed to find in the past

glenc (Glen) · #2 24-02-2007, 10:17 AM

Graham
It might be NGC 2467 which is near M93.
Glen

GrahamL · #3 24-02-2007, 10:37 AM

thanks glen I only had a few seconds of clear view .. thats got to be the one

clear out your way late last night? was nice down here ..i'm very busy with work atm and only really get a quick dash out now and then not that the weathers really being kind of late.

glenc (Glen) · #4 24-02-2007, 10:42 AM

Was up from midnight to 2:30am last night. Used the 12" in the observatory with the 13mm Hyperion and also used a 2x Barlow (230 times, 20' field) on some objects as the seeing was good.