Re: SAA: Journey through the Constellations

On Apr 29, 12:51 am, Margo Schulter <mschul...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi, everyone. This is another quick and informal observing
report to keep up the signal-to-noise ratio, I hope, and also
to convey the sheer excitement of an experience which curiously
does seem to fit the title "Star Trek" -- a journey of some four
hours from Corvus to Sagittarius and M25 through the beautiful
southern skies.


Nice post, I enjoyed reading it. Reminded me of the '70's when I was
about 12 years old, observing out in warm July nights from 34 deg N
latitude. From that latitude Scorpius was prominent in the south,
standing up on its tail, with lambda and upsilon looking like a pair
of cat eyes in the sky. I had a 50mm refractor and a badly worn out
but trusty copy of Norton's Star Atlas. I got excited when I saw NGC
6231 for the first time -- man, awesome cluster! -- and I thought I
was hot stuff because I found something that wasn't an "M" number and
none of my books mentioned it.
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