Cygnus;around the Swan.

[cotterless45]

Finally a bit of darkness about 1am.

Cygnus was just above the town glow in the East.After M57 and the small dense M56,from one of my old maps I found open clusters well worth seeking out;

NGC7063,NGC6910,NGC6866,NGC6819,NGC6871,NGC6834 ,NGC6791,NGC6811 andNGC 6997 and then down to The Coathanger (upside down). The frost was then settling on the tube and my winter jacket (half way through May!).

I could no more than to admire the difference in colour, density and size of these clusters.It was a fine first light for the HEQ5 Synscan and 8" Orion Optics,nice.

Nick.

[LeeB]

cool literally, wish I'd ventured out, glad systems working well. It must be the beer!!!

[cotterless45]

Ha, there's not many get a mount christened by a gobfull of homebrew!!!nice,

Nick.

[Double Kick Drum]

Thanks for giving me some ideas post-galaxy season.

A nice collection of first light objects!

[cotterless45]

Yep, open clusters seem to be the poor relations of the tribe.

If there's bad seeing or it's not dark enough,they are well worth searching out. We had about 70% cloud cover this am,but could still pick out clusters in the gaps. Even more bizzare we saw M31 very low in the North at about 2.00am,through the clouds,nice.

Nick.