Last chance for summer DSO this year?

[YKSE]

The weather has been fabulous this week, not a drop rain, mostly clear sky every weekday. Friday's forecast looked very good, I took the chance for a dark site trip for some more summer DSO.

The Sun set around 7:30, getting darker quite quickly, but it was a bit late for summer DSO, many low declination DSO at around 17, 18 RA were too low for observing or treed out on West, SQM showed 20.3 in early evening and 20.9 closer to midnight.

Globulae:

NGC 6356 was the most easy one to pick up, 6366 a little more difficult, but still in direct vision, even if it was close to a bright star. 7006 also easy because of smaller size, same as Caldwell 42, and lastly Caldwell 47 was a quite bright too.

Open Clusters:

6633 was very bright. Caldwell 16, some brighter stars in a pool fainter stars in the whole FOV, just beautiful!!

Galaxies:

7727, the brighter core visible in direct vision, averted vision showed some extention. 7723 was fainter, needed averted vision to pick it up same as Caldwell 12.

Planetary nebulae:

6818, very bright as mag 10, 6572 had bright blueish core, IC1295, with bright globula 6712 to the upper left, UHC filter was needed and around 100x to get a positive ID. IC 1296, very close to M57- the ring nebula, too faint for my backyard (mag 14,3, SB 13.9), in 50x, with UHC filter on and off repeatedly, it could be identified as to the upper left. Caldwell 4, nebulosity around a bright star, it got more intense with UHC filter on, thus confirmed nebula. Caldwell 63, much fainter than mag 6.3 indicated, the low surface brightness (13.3) and low declination are probably the reasons, repeated UHC on and off needed to pick it up.

After going through my prepared list, I took some time to observe the double double again, which I posted here:

http://stargazerslounge.com/topic/225549-faint-stars-between-the-double-double/?p=2429553

[alan potts]

Nice report Yong, I would join you but I have your rain and more to the point I took part of the barn roof off yesterday, weather.

Alan

[Pig]

Great report Yong it sounds like you had a great night

I was aiming to wake up early this morning at around 4am as it was forecast clear, unfortunately, I didn't  so I missed the stars

[cotterless45]

Great report, some lovely targets,

Nick.

[Qualia]

Glad to see you enjoying some decent skies, Yong. It looks like you bagged yourself some gorgeous sights. Down this end of the world just blankets of cloud and next week doesn't look nay better