Buqibu Posted July 24, 2021 Share Posted July 24, 2021 (edited) This month marks the first year of my amateur astronomy, here are the 50 or so objects I've seen! Note: all observations were done with a 4 inch achro, a pair of 10x25 and then later 7x50 binoculars, and a few with the eye alone. Bortle around 6 The List: The Moon Jupiter (and it's four Galillean Moons) Saturn (and Titan) Mars Venus Achird (double star) Mesarthim (double star) Almach (double star) Andromeda Galaxy (M31) M32 (i think) M15 (Globular Cluster) The Double Cluster The Owl Cluster Pleiades (7 Sisters) ISS Perseid Meteor Shower M103 (Open Cluster) NGC 663 NGC 559 Neptune? (maybe, I though I saw a blue star) Uranus? (Same situation) Mizar and Alcor M52 (Open Cluster) M34 (Open Cluster) The Hyades Cluster The Orion Nebula (M42) M36 - open cluster M37 - open cluster M38 - open cluster Mintaka (double star) Trapezium Star Sigma Tauri (double star) M3 (Globular Cluster) Izar (double star, although I have yet to split it) Cor Caroli (double star) M13 - The Great Hercules Globular M92 - Globular Cluster, also in Hercules M5 - Globular Cluster The Double Double star Zubenelgenubi (double star) M57 - The Ring Nebula Sheliak (double star) Albireo (my favourite double star) M29 - open cluster M27 - The Dumbbell Nebula M12 - globular cluster The Coathanger Cluster Alfirk - double star M2 - Globular Cluster NGC 752 - open cluster Edited July 25, 2021 by Cornelius Varley formatting corrected for colour 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buqibu Posted July 24, 2021 Author Share Posted July 24, 2021 Edit, sorry for the weird white background text, copy paste is to blame🤣🤣 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marvin Jenkins Posted July 25, 2021 Share Posted July 25, 2021 Well done, you have been busy. A really good mixture of targets, I would be very with that lot in one year. Marv 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cornelius Varley Posted July 25, 2021 Share Posted July 25, 2021 8 hours ago, Buqibu said: Edit, sorry for the weird white background text, copy paste is to blame🤣🤣 Formatting fixed. When copy/pasting, use the paste as plain text option to remove colour backgrounds. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buqibu Posted July 25, 2021 Author Share Posted July 25, 2021 Thank you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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