What Northern Object impressed you?

[CoombellKid]

I wasn't into astronomy when I spent 6 months in north America, mainly
Canada. However I was impressed one evening while sucking back a few
cold ones in a friends backyard in Waterloo, Quebec. At the amount of
satelites transiting across the sky. Must be very annoying if your into
astrophotography.

Apart from that my favourite northern sky object would have to be the
Veil Nebula seen through a OIII filter, along with it's eastern section the
Eastern Veil Nebula. Followed by the North American Neb, M57, T Lyrae
(cause I like carbon stars). The Christmas Tree cluster (because it looks
like a Christmas Tree) and that other little cluster in the elbow of Orion
that looks like "37" NGC 2169 is it's designation. And to top it off M31
through my 20x80's

regards,CS

[gary]

Hi Don,

M51.

Andrew, John and I looked at it through Larry Mitchell's 36" at the Texas
Star Party last May.

That specific view of it through that much aperture is the closest I
have seen a galaxy resemble visually what it looks like photographically.

In fact if you were an astrophotographer and saw the same view, I think you
would just put the camera back in the carry case and say, "why bother".
You can just look at it in real-time!

I believe Andrew may have looked at it before with the same scope,
but we were positively stunned. You just don't get that sort of view of it from
here and that much aperture seems to provide enough photons for the receptors
in the eye to work effortlessly.

So apart from the specific object and the latitude you observe it from, aperture
and seeing can make all of the difference.

Look forward to seeing you again soon and getting some more WOW's going.

Best regards

Gary Kopff
Mt. Kuring-Gai

[dwyman]

M51 is really marvelous in a large aperture scope. Saw it in one of the few 36" scopes that Dave (Obsession) made. Can't say I enjoyed being up on a 12 foot (2 meter) ladder in the middle of the night though.

Looking forward to seeing you and the others in October.

[dugnsuz (Doug)]

Originally Posted by Nyx Aether

Dugnsuz

The "Coathanger Asterism" or "Brocchi's Cluster" (Cr 399 - Collinder ) you refer too is in Vulpecula - however, it is not really a northern object as the position is RA: 19h 25.4m Dec. +20deg 11min.

For your interest, an excellent discussion can be found at ;
http://www.greenwich-observatory.co.uk/coathanger.html.

Thanks for the links, brought back some memories, haven't looked for it down under!
Cheers
Doug