Schudel Family - Astronomy Log

• Who: Daniel, Vickie, Grandma and Grandpa Schudel, Karin
• Time: 22:00 EDT
• Temperature: ~76 degrees F
• Location: Leeward Court
• Equipment: Astroscan with 21.5mm RKE
• Viewed
  • Albireo
  • Mizar/Alcor
  • M13

• Who: Daniel
• Time: 21:20 - 23:45 EDT
• Weather: mid-70's with occasional cloud cover
• Location: Farrington Boat Ramp - eastern ramp
• Equipment: Astroscan with 21.5mm RKE
• Viewing Plans
  
  • Sky View and here.
  • Planetary - Venus, Saturn, Mars at sunset.  Jupiter, Uranus after midnight.
  • Deep Sky Objects - M13 (globular cluster), M27 (nebula), M57 (nebula), M92 (globular cluster), NGC6826 (nebula)
  • Binary Stars - Albireo (colorful blue/yellow binary), 61 Cygni, Cor Caroli, Mizar/Alcor

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    More Deep Sky - M8, M11, M16, M17, M20, M22, M24, M25, M27, M55, M57, NGC6633

• Viewing Results
  • M13
  • Cor Caroli - Low on the horizon - easily found, but could not separate.
  • Mizar/Alcor - Easy to separate.
  • Albireo - Separation was easy - but color difference was not evident.
  • M4 - Very, very faint.  FOV included Antares and Sigma Scorpii at opposite edges.
  • M80 - Nearly indistinguishable from a star.
  • Albireo/22:00 - Slight color difference is noted.
  • M57 - Too small to be recognizable
  • Satellite/22:30 - Seen in Vulpecula.  Identified as: Cosmos 2360 Rocket.
  • M27 - Very difficult to find.  The nebula had an interesting shape - definitely not round.
  • M92 - Easy to find, bright core with a diffuse outer layer.
  • M5 - Standard looking globular.
  • Epsilon Lyrae - Could not split the individual doubles.
  • M57/23:10 - Darker sky did not help.
  • Albireo/23:10 - More color is evident.
  • M56 - Unimpressive and dim.
  • 61 Cygni - Easy to find and separate.
  • Satellite/23:32 near to NGC6826 - Unidentified.
  • NGC6826 - Very difficult to find - FOV star charts with dim stars plotted helped to hop to NGC6826.  It took a lot of patience before I could make an object out.
  • 23:45 - Clouds moved in from the North.

 Data courtesy of: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messier_92

 Data courtesy of: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messier_27