Monday, March 15, 2010

Dark night kickoff in freezing cold - III

Continued..

Ant galaxies: Too faint.. can see two fuzzy lil things.. but cannot discern much. Tried it multiple times during the night, but wasn't much clear.

Saturn: Multiple views. Seeing was improving over the period, ring shadow is visible. 3 of the moons on right side visible.

Virgo Markarain's chain: 3 in the middle. Two on the right of it. one more on right of the pair.

Jon mentioned about coma borealis - second star - double - 0.7 arcsecond... can not split it with normal optical scope. needs excellent seeing. the day before jon was able to split 1.3 arcsecond double.. so surely this is not even possible in best seeing.

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