M27 - Dumbell search

[dick_dangerous]

It took me 17 years to find it... Once you do find it, you wonder how you missed it, but I always found the location slightly obscure. It's visible from suburban London though so pretty bright.

The method using Sagitta works well. A good wide field of view is also handy - it will take a lot of magnification when you find it.

Best of luck!

DD

[andrew63]

It took me 17 years to find it... Once you do find it, you wonder how you missed it, but I always found the location slightly obscure. It's visible from suburban London though so pretty bright.

The method using Sagitta works well. A good wide field of view is also handy - it will take a lot of magnification when you find it.

Best of luck!

DD

Funnily enough, i had a similar experience with M1 - could not find it in a 6" telescope for a few years and one night casually found it with a little 90 mak.     So stick with it !  Just scan around gamma sagittae about 3 deg above.

andrew

[Stu]

Funnily enough, i had a similar experience with M1 - could not find it in a 6" telescope for a few years and one night casually found it with a little 90 mak. So stick with it ! Just scan around gamma sagittae about 3 deg above.

andrew

Ditto! Took me years, I'm the end it just needed a dark sky and some binos!

Stu

[Swedeman2013]

Thanks everyone, the battle continues and I still look forward to spotting it. Many useful tips and photos passed along, you guys are quite courteous !

Clear skies

[Swedeman2013]

M27 FOUND!!, The long hunt is over thanks to all the advice from everyone here I found dumbell ! It appeared VERY FAINT, no doubt from our city of Montreal lighting up the skies, yet there she was nonetheless. Thanks all!

[Stu]

Well done!!!

Need to get out under some dark skies me thinks

Stu

[cotterless45]

I was showing my son a tour of the light polluted sky last night. Vulpecula was in the bright west, but we got M27 glowing at x80 with a UHC filter in the C6r. It nearly filled the fov with it's glow, neat,

Nick.

[andrew63]

Glad you've found it. If you can view it from outside the city it will be like a bubble floating in space !

andrew

[Special K]

Good job!  It was worth the hunt, wasn't it?  Must be some awful dark skies round your parts, and happy hunting.

[Swedeman2013]

SpecialK, I've seen our skies deepen of late with greater views for sure. Living 10 miles out of Montreal I do have an orange-ish glow to the north along with our suburban street lights, again orangey ( damn!). Like many members here, I put up with conditions which ( to me) are decent. To escape I'd need to drive 60 miles west to our capital ( Ottawa ) or south to the U.S Adirondack mountains. As it is, I LOVE this hobby of astronomy!

[Swedeman2013]

Andrew63, it was as you described! Somewhat less detail than shown on Google images and less defined than ring nebula yet I was glad to finally find it.