Deep Sky with Binoculars

[OXO]

Hello All,

Had fun last night sitting on my bench in the garden taking in the cool evening's Air and viewing with my simple 10x50 Bino's.

The delight's were even from my heavly polluted skies.

M31,M13,M57,M51,M81@82,M101,Brocchi's Cluster,NGC 7000, and the Moon with the illusion of it being Bigger...

M31 was a treat even though low in the sky, i made out dark lanes in times of excellent seeing,M13 was brighter than i remembered it before with my bino's more of a small cloud than anything else,M57 was a small pin of light with hints of colour?..,M81@82 was excellent,M101 faint blur,Ngc 7000 hints of the nebula,Brocchi's Cluster excellent...

All in all a excellent night so good in fact nearing the end of my observing i photographed vega and surrounding area's. See the image below..

40 secs with coolpix on static tripod.

James

[OXO]

June Moon dazzles skywatchers ! the bbc have a page on the mentioned moon if anyone cares to look http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4123228.stm

James

[Ant]

Interesting James, I do like the moon rising like that!

That image isn't bad for 40 seconds... The milky way is starting to come out and you can make out some dust lanes... Well done!

And I've just looked again I think you have actually recorded NGC7000 - that brilliant.

[OXO]

Thanks Sky i am suprised what the old coolpix 4500 can do sometimes in my light pond!

James

[AndyMac]

Nice report & image James. You did well to spot M101 & NGC7000 with a pair of binoculars from a badly light polluted site. :shock:

[Rob]

Cool!!... glad you enjoyed.

Rob

[OXO]

Thanks Guys, M101 and Ngc 7000 are two great objects m101 was really hard to see and a blur but all the same i was thrilled to see it with binos Ngc was just Great!

James