Re: Backyard stargazing, TV76, 6/26/04

From: Phil Wheeler (w6tuh-ng1_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 06/28/04 

Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 01:01:38 GMT

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

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