Fuzzy Hunting

[Dave scutt]

To night was the night for Fuzzy Hunting, the sky was clear their was no wind a bit cold at -1.

Started with M31 still low in the sky in the N/W, found it just over the tree line couldn't find M110 and M32 this time , didn't look for M33 as for the trees in that direction. 

Not a good start 1 out of 4.

Moved on to Ursa Major,  found Alkaid and a short hop to the left and there was M101, back to Alkaid followed the few stars and M51 looked as nice as it did the other night the spiral arms where clearly visible and seeing them joining together. 

On to M108 thanks for @Kon for naming this for me doesn't name it on my stellarium, found the Owl Nebula M97 and there in the same FOV was M108.

Onwards and upwards to M81 and M82 another two brilliant fuzzy to look at. 

Now towards some fuzzy I've never seen before,  looking at Phecda through the finder moved to the right and found M106 straight away and then back down to M63 maybe my luck was turning for the good.

I know M3 and M53 aren't fuzzys but had to have a look as never seen these before always nice too see new Globular Clusters.

Next on the list M64 found 35A 4.7 mag star Close to M53, and there it was M64 another one ticked off the list.

Staying in that area are more fuzzy I've never seen before M58,M60, M84, M86, M87,M89, M90 and probably lots more. Found Vindemiatrix tried to star hop but was just getting lost,  so moving the dob around slowly managed to see 4more fuzzys but not sure which one's I had seen.

And then cut short freezing fog had arrived couldn't see 2 metres in front of me ,it was -3 and my fingers where cold handerling the solid tube all night.

Time to pack up and be continued........

Dave

[Kon]

Nice haul of targets there. By thew way, if you are using the free version of Stellarium on your phone it does not show M108. If you do not want to pay for the app you can try the web version of stellarium or download skysafari (the free app lists M108).

[SuburbanMak]

Great report of what sounds like a fab session! 
Last spring I had a similar experience of getting lost in Virgo and did a fair bit of homework identifying “mini-asterisms” as signposts.  You might find my post on that useful and it also includes a link to an excellent post on navigating Virgo from @MercianDabbler  which really helped me work out what I was looking at. 

 

[wookie1965]

Wow what a haul sounds like a cracking night for fuzzies.