Not so faint fuzzy tonight?

"Starstuffed" wrote in message
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Mike,

It could be that you glimpsed the North American Nebula (in the
constellation of Cygnus) with a total magnitude of 4.0. This nebula,
NGC7000 lies roughly in the area you describe and could have been visible
to
your naked eye given dark enough skies and good enough seeing.


Martin



I believe Mike and I live in the same town, and the light pollution here
always sucks a lemon. Only time we get dark skies here is during a general
blackout...and they only come during periods of full moon.

Al

"Al" wrote in message
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I believe Mike and I live in the same town, and the light pollution here
always sucks a lemon. Only time we get dark skies here is during a
general
blackout...and they only come during periods of full moon.


Thanks for the info. That pretty much rules out NGC7000.

I'll go back to sleep now,


Martin

On Sun, 19 Oct 2003 16:53:40 GMT, Al wrote:

"Starstuffed" wrote in message
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Mike,

It could be that you glimpsed the North American Nebula (in the
constellation of Cygnus) with a total magnitude of 4.0. This nebula,
NGC7000 lies roughly in the area you describe and could have been visible
to
your naked eye given dark enough skies and good enough seeing.

I believe Mike and I live in the same town, and the light pollution here
always sucks a lemon. Only time we get dark skies here is during a general
blackout...and they only come during periods of full moon.

I used to live in central NJ, but I now live in northwest NJ, where light
pollution is very slight. ZLM is at least 6.0.

Whatever I saw, it was not any known DSO for certain. It was far too
bright.

I can only guess it was a small noctilucent cloud, since there's no trace
of anything like it tonight.


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"Mike Ruskai" wrote in message
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I can only guess it was a small noctilucent cloud, since there's no trace
of anything like it tonight.

Need not have been noctilucent -- could have been an ordinary cloud
illuminated by town lights below.

There have been many instances of small clouds being mistaken for newly
discovered comets, and occasionally the opposite!

On Sun, 19 Oct 2003 22:16:06 -0400, Michael A. Covington wrote:

"Mike Ruskai" wrote in message
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I can only guess it was a small noctilucent cloud, since there's no trace
of anything like it tonight.

Need not have been noctilucent -- could have been an ordinary cloud
illuminated by town lights below.

There are no town lights below. I guess you really had to see it to
understand. There were plenty of clouds out that night, all of them dark,
obscuring much of the sky. This object was very bright, and not moving
with respect to the stars, while the clouds were.


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