Post by timothy on May 6, 2005 22:48:30 GMT -6
05-05-05
5" newtonian
no clouds
no moon
seeing- 5
trans- 5
LVM 3.5
Hi All
Tonight since I was out a little later than usual I decided to visually trace out all the constellations I could see ( to see what was new ) . The past couple years since I've been active in astronomy I could never find the little dipper, besides polaris. I remember seeing both dippers clearly when I was a young boy in Indiana . So anyway the two stars that I was looking at the past couple months that I thought were the two stars at the tip of the roof in cephus turned out to be the two stars at the outside edge of the little dipper . So I looked to see if I could find the rest of the stars in the handle and low and behold there they were, but just barely . I was also able to trace Draco, Corona Borealis, and some of Libra, which is my birthday constellation . Now I realize Hercules is up, Click, (thats a sound my brain makes once in a while ) M13, All Right. So I train the scope right on it at 60x. Now thats a nice globular. By now my eyes are as dark adapted as there going to get. I bump the power up to 150x and pull my hood up over my head and all the way down around the EP for some serious observing. Alternating between direct and averted vision, after a while individual stars started popping in and out of view. It reminded me of the grand finale at the fireworks. Quite a show!
Working southward I see Ophiuchus so I take a look at ic 4665 and M14. They were pretty low in the atmospheric muck so they did'nt look that great but still a nice sight.
5" newtonian
no clouds
no moon
seeing- 5
trans- 5
LVM 3.5
Hi All
Tonight since I was out a little later than usual I decided to visually trace out all the constellations I could see ( to see what was new ) . The past couple years since I've been active in astronomy I could never find the little dipper, besides polaris. I remember seeing both dippers clearly when I was a young boy in Indiana . So anyway the two stars that I was looking at the past couple months that I thought were the two stars at the tip of the roof in cephus turned out to be the two stars at the outside edge of the little dipper . So I looked to see if I could find the rest of the stars in the handle and low and behold there they were, but just barely . I was also able to trace Draco, Corona Borealis, and some of Libra, which is my birthday constellation . Now I realize Hercules is up, Click, (thats a sound my brain makes once in a while ) M13, All Right. So I train the scope right on it at 60x. Now thats a nice globular. By now my eyes are as dark adapted as there going to get. I bump the power up to 150x and pull my hood up over my head and all the way down around the EP for some serious observing. Alternating between direct and averted vision, after a while individual stars started popping in and out of view. It reminded me of the grand finale at the fireworks. Quite a show!
Working southward I see Ophiuchus so I take a look at ic 4665 and M14. They were pretty low in the atmospheric muck so they did'nt look that great but still a nice sight.