Eskimo Nebula

[Scooot]

I noticed last night, after centring Jupiter and then looking through the finder, the Eskimo was in the bottom left of the finder at about 7 o'clock. It was probably around 9pm I was looking. So given its proximity to the great planet, for those without goto its a lot easier to find at the moment.

It was quite prominent but the view became a lot better with a UHC filter.

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

The Eskimo is a very nice object. It can take a lot of magnification as well. I have even used 200x on it

[AlexB67]

Thanks for the heads up, added to the list

[cotterless45]

If you have good seeing , it. Is possible at x200 to get the Eskimo dark centre with the halo around it. Really a show piece !

Slightly higher is the twin lobed planetary nebula NGC 2371/2. Not as bright , but lovely.

Clear skies, Old Nick.

[Scooot]

Thanks Nick, I'll have a look next time. I had a look at ngc 1501 the other night as well following your recommendation.

[Special K]

Eskimo is a great target and I had a very good viewing earlier in the week. Was in Jupiter country and seemed rude not to look!

[AlexB67]

Bagged it last night, the moon was out, observing conditions were rather good though and with a UHC it showed up rather well, even pushed it to 200x in the 10 inch, though coupled with the pentax 10.5 it showed excellent definition, even if it was rather small.  A beautiful object, a clear sort of ring around a centre 

[WaveSoarer]

It is a nice object and, according to my notebook, it looks like a fuzzy patch with a bright nucleus. I didn't use much magnification though so I'll be revisiting it. I'll also look out for NGC 2371/2.

[AlexB67]

I like your description, a fuzzy patch with a bright nucleus, that nails it  Should be to push that mag  up, I found out this was borne out in practice, surface brightness is quite high, though listed in stellarium as Mag 10, surface brightness is around 16.2.