Stellafane - Binocular Observing Olympics V

[DirkSteele]

Annual Astronomy party Stellafane (it’s centennial this year) is coming up in the US and Phil Harrington has set a binocular observing challenge of 20 objects, though this also looks like a great list for 60-70mm scopes as well. I am particularly interested in the Davis Dinosaur!

https://stellafane.org/convention/2023/pdf/2023_OO_List_Binoculars.pdf

[glafnazur]

Love the Davis Dinosaur, I'm going to have to hunt for that once the skies clear  😄

[RobertI]

Excellent! An interesting selection of objects. IC1396 looks tough, especially from my skies. 

[PeterW]

IC1396 is a large emission nebula.. the “elephant trunk” is a dark nebula in it.. like B33 (horse head) against IC434 nebulosity. There are brighter large emission nebulae up there, but I guess Phil wants the right level of challenge!

look forward to observing reports on this list.

Peter