Re: [Utah-astronomy] Sunday night/Monday morning
According to Stephen James O'Meara, the sky has to be really clear to bag IC 1613. I'm going to try it next month at the Kolob Fingers section of ZNP. I marked it on Sky Atlas 2000 since it is not on chart #10. The Cave Nebula was a hard one but is more for imagers than visual observers. The Bubble Nebula is best seen with an OIII filter. I found Pac Man Nebula this weekend and it too benefits from an OIII filter. I was at Capital Reef this weekend and set up my 15" Thursday and Friday nights. One area in Pisces that I thought was interesting is the NGC 520, 474, 470 group. I need to take a closer look at NGC 520 since it consists of two merging galaxies. M74 was perhaps the best that I have seen it at a dark site. Other faint galaxies that put on a show were NGC 7331, NGC 7814, NGC 7479, NGC 925, NGC 1023, NGC 891, and Bernard's Galaxy NGC 6822. I'm planning on going back to Capital Reef next year so I can hike and stargaze. It is a fun area to explore. Debbie On Sun Sep 5 14:46 , Michael Vanopstall <opstall@math.utah.edu> sent:
Hello --
I hope everyone's object bag is a little more full after the weekend. I had a decent go Thurs/Fri at Lakeside. For Caldwell objects doable from this latitude, I've only got NGC 2261 in Monoceros among those that should not be difficult, and then some that I maybe have no hope for: the Cave in Cepheus and the Bubble in Cassiopeia, and IC 1613 in Cetus -- these I have definitely pointed the scope right at many times, and I believe I have seen the Bubble and IC 1613, but am not ready to check them off yet. Also cleared out the rest of the Herschels in Auriga.
I've got 8 more Herschels in Orion, one more in Gemini (where the moon was on Friday early morning), and two more on Camelopardalis. Since the moon won't be a problem tonight before the sun will, I'd like to go out. I'm posting to find out who's going to be out there that I might bother. I want to manage a little sleep, so I'll probably go out sometime around 1-2 am and start with the difficult objects mentioned about, which will already be up, and then start through Orion and Monoceros as the darkness allows.
I guess that Lakeside and Knolls are options, although they put the city in between me and my targets. I think Knolls is less popular, so if folks are set up from evening at Lakeside, I'll probably not bother them. Wolf Creek would probably be ideal, as the humidity there will be lower, and it won't really be that much colder than is forecast for the west desert. But I've never been there, don't really know how to get to the observing area (can anyone give fairly exact GPS coordinates for this?), and I think maybe someone will be left there that doesn't want to be disturbed.
Anyhow -- let me know if you're going to be set up already at 1:00 am at any of these places, and I'll not disturb.
Thanks.
---- Rev. Michael A. van Opstall Department of Mathematics, University of Utah Office: JWB 313 opstall@math.utah.edu
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On Tue, 7 Sep 2010, Debbie wrote:
According to Stephen James O'Meara, the sky has to be really clear to bag IC 1613. I'm going to try it next month at the Kolob Fingers section of ZNP. I marked it on Sky Atlas 2000 since it is not on chart #10. The Cave Nebula was a hard one but is more for imagers than visual observers. The Bubble Nebula is best seen with an OIII filter. I found Pac Man Nebula this weekend and it too benefits from an OIII filter.
I am very stupid about my Sky Atlas. I always leave it at home, despite the fact that the charts in O'Meara's Caldwell book leave something to be desired (they don't show enough context). So a good ten minutes of my time was spent figuring out which star in Pisces was epsilon! Meanwhile, that Atlas is at home. The Bubble and the Crescent in Cygnus I used an O-III on, but only to check after I had thought I detected them without. Now, I definitely didn't pick out the Bubble itself, but some of the extent of the nebulosity was there. Even though I was at a dark site, I used a UHC to see the Cave. Again, I didn't see the cave feature, but saw about a 1-2 degree sliver of nebulosity. IC 1613 -- I have made two very concerted efforts. Both times I thought I saw the same thing. I absolutely pinpointed the field, and stood at the eyepiece each time for 15-20 minutes tapping the tube, breathing rhythmically, and moving the center of my FOV around. I checked the direction I thought I saw nebulosity against a photo and they agreed, so I count it as attained. I still have my doubts, and will probably revisit it each time I'm out. I think that I may have just caught a couple of 12-13th magnitude stars nearby that fooled me... ---- Rev. Michael A. van Opstall Department of Mathematics, University of Utah Office: JWB 313 opstall@math.utah.edu
Nice report, Debbie. I've been enjoying the autumn galaxies. Best wishes, Joe --- On Tue, 9/7/10, Debbie <astrodeb@beyondbb.com> wrote:
From: Debbie <astrodeb@beyondbb.com> Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Sunday night/Monday morning To: "Utah Astronomy" <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Date: Tuesday, September 7, 2010, 12:36 PM According to Stephen James O'Meara, the sky has to be really clear to bag IC 1613. I'm going to try it next month at the Kolob Fingers section of ZNP. I marked it on Sky Atlas 2000 since it is not on chart #10. The Cave Nebula was a hard one but is more for imagers than visual observers. The Bubble Nebula is best seen with an OIII filter. I found Pac Man Nebula this weekend and it too benefits from an OIII filter.
I was at Capital Reef this weekend and set up my 15" Thursday and Friday nights. One area in Pisces that I thought was interesting is the NGC 520, 474, 470 group. I need to take a closer look at NGC 520 since it consists of two merging galaxies. M74 was perhaps the best that I have seen it at a dark site. Other faint galaxies that put on a show were NGC 7331, NGC 7814, NGC 7479, NGC 925, NGC 1023, NGC 891, and Bernard's Galaxy NGC 6822.
I'm planning on going back to Capital Reef next year so I can hike and stargaze. It is a fun area to explore.
Debbie
On Sun Sep 5 14:46 , Michael Vanopstall <opstall@math.utah.edu> sent:
Hello --
I hope everyone's object bag is a little more full after the weekend. I had a decent go Thurs/Fri at Lakeside. For Caldwell objects doable from this latitude, I've only got NGC 2261 in Monoceros among those that should not be difficult, and then some that I maybe have no hope for: the Cave in Cepheus and the Bubble in Cassiopeia, and IC 1613 in Cetus -- these I have definitely pointed the scope right at many times, and I believe I have seen the Bubble and IC 1613, but am not ready to check them off yet. Also cleared out the rest of the Herschels in Auriga.
I've got 8 more Herschels in Orion, one more in Gemini (where the moon was on Friday early morning), and two more on Camelopardalis. Since the moon won't be a problem tonight before the sun will, I'd like to go out. I'm posting to find out who's going to be out there that I might bother. I want to manage a little sleep, so I'll probably go out sometime around 1-2 am and start with the difficult objects mentioned about, which will already be up, and then start through Orion and Monoceros as the darkness allows.
I guess that Lakeside and Knolls are options, although they put the city in between me and my targets. I think Knolls is less popular, so if folks are set up from evening at Lakeside, I'll probably not bother them. Wolf Creek would probably be ideal, as the humidity there will be lower, and it won't really be that much colder than is forecast for the west desert. But I've never been there, don't really know how to get to the observing area (can anyone give fairly exact GPS coordinates for this?), and I think maybe someone will be left there that doesn't want to be disturbed.
Anyhow -- let me know if you're going to be set up already at 1:00 am at any of these places, and I'll not disturb.
Thanks.
---- Rev. Michael A. van Opstall Department of Mathematics, University of Utah Office: JWB 313 opstall@math.utah.edu
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