more sketches from last night.

[darrenbushnalluk]

Well another clear night:hello2: so went out with the Watec to see what I could see!

M27-The observation of the night and what a pleasure to re-observe, lots of detail especially at the western long axis, central hole filled with diffuse nebulosity, the central star was just there while a fainter second star was seen within the hole plus a third slightly brighter star at the end of the western long axis.

IC 1296 of magnitude15.3 was also seen as a faint circular glow about 4' to the NW.

NGC's 6702 and 6703 in Lyra. 6702 is an elliptical galaxy while 6703 is a face on spiral which equals they look pretty similar though 6702 may have been ever so slightly elongated E-W.

Stephans Quintet, the largest galaxy NGC 7320 was extremely diffuse and had a magnitude 14.5 star at the SE side.

Glad to have finally have this object in my log :-)

NGC 7331. Only say the main core of the galaxy but some nice dark lanes plus three other galaxies NGC's 7335, 7336 and 7337 next to a magnitude 14 star.

Darren

[jimmyjamjoejoe]

Nice, you really captured the faintness of IC 1296 well, i almost have to use averted gaze to see it on my screen!

What were you viewing with?

[darrenbushnalluk]

Nice, you really captured the faintness of IC 1296 well, i almost have to use averted gaze to see it on my screen!

What were you viewing with?

I use a 10 inch reflector and a Watec 120N+ astro camera so I view a live feed onto a monitor then play around with the settings.