Backyard stargazing, TV76, 6/26/04

I worked the night shift this evening and got home a bit after midnight.
The first quarter moon was still up but it would set soon so i brought
the Tele Vue 76 out to the backyard. I wasn't really expecting too much
and was surprised to see the Milky Way even before the moon had set. I
started with M7. Hm, not quite the sight it was a few nights ago from
Cottonwood. Still the cluster itself was very pretty even though i
couldn't see any of the other nearby objects. M6 the Butterfly/Dragonfly
cluster was nice. After the two Messier clusters i tried for a few of
the dim globulars in the area... 6441 next to G Sco is always easy to
find, 6522 and 6528 in the spout of the teapot were both visible with
the 10mm Radian. M69, M70 and M54 in the body of the teapot as well as
M22 and M28 up above. The star cloud M24 was a bit of a letdown compared
to the other night. But it does contain some pretty patterns of stars.
Lastly i found 6934 in Delphinus and its dim little companion stars. I
didn't even try for 7006 this time.

-Florian
Stargazing.com

Florian wrote:

I worked the night shift this evening and got home a bit after midnight.
The first quarter moon was still up but it would set soon so i brought
the Tele Vue 76 out to the backyard. I wasn't really expecting too much
and was surprised to see the Milky Way even before the moon had set. I
started with M7. Hm, not quite the sight it was a few nights ago from
Cottonwood. Still the cluster itself was very pretty even though i
couldn't see any of the other nearby objects. M6 the Butterfly/Dragonfly
cluster was nice. After the two Messier clusters i tried for a few of
the dim globulars in the area... 6441 next to G Sco is always easy to
find, 6522 and 6528 in the spout of the teapot were both visible with
the 10mm Radian. M69, M70 and M54 in the body of the teapot as well as
M22 and M28 up above. The star cloud M24 was a bit of a letdown compared
to the other night. But it does contain some pretty patterns of stars.
Lastly i found 6934 in Delphinus and its dim little companion stars. I
didn't even try for 7006 this time.


Pretty good for living in the city as you do .. and a surprise!

But you really need to get more sleep, Florian. Seems you are always
greeting the dawn :-)

Phil

Florian wrote:

I worked the night shift this evening and got home a bit after midnight.
The first quarter moon was still up but it would set soon so i brought
the Tele Vue 76 out to the backyard. I wasn't really expecting too much
and was surprised to see the Milky Way even before the moon had set. I
started with M7. Hm, not quite the sight it was a few nights ago from
Cottonwood. Still the cluster itself was very pretty even though i
couldn't see any of the other nearby objects. M6 the Butterfly/Dragonfly
cluster was nice. After the two Messier clusters i tried for a few of
the dim globulars in the area... 6441 next to G Sco is always easy to
find, 6522 and 6528 in the spout of the teapot were both visible with
the 10mm Radian. M69, M70 and M54 in the body of the teapot as well as
M22 and M28 up above. The star cloud M24 was a bit of a letdown compared
to the other night. But it does contain some pretty patterns of stars.
Lastly i found 6934 in Delphinus and its dim little companion stars. I
didn't even try for 7006 this time.


Pretty good for living in the city as you do .. and a surprise!

But you really need to get more sleep, Florian. Seems you are always
greeting the dawn :-)

Phil

But you really need to get more sleep, Florian. Seems you are always=20
greeting the dawn :-)


I wasn't up that late. Just till about 2am. And today i went hiking up =
the tramway and saw Venus. ;-)

-Florian

But you really need to get more sleep, Florian. Seems you are always=20
greeting the dawn :-)


I wasn't up that late. Just till about 2am. And today i went hiking up =
the tramway and saw Venus. ;-)

-Florian