Hunting Virgo Fuzzies I

Date: May 7th 2010 Friday
Observation Time: 8:00pm to 11:30pm (3.5hrs),
Location: Jon's Home, Boulevard, CA
Weather: Lil clouds on western horizon. Transperancy okay.. no wind..
Instruments: Jon's 16" dob, NP101 APO, AT102ED
Buddies: Jon

Friday evening drive after work.. was definitely worth because of virgo fuzzies..

- Venus: Checked the APO ED lateral colors in AT102ED and NP101. with focused image, no colrrs in any APO. With out of focus venus, the AT shows the lateral color, while NP just doesn't show anything.. does it bother? nope :).. I iwsh Celestron refractor would haven been.. it would have showed heavy color with focused image itself.

Porrima: Split very very hard hard for me. 396x in Jon's scope..
Castor: Split failed.

- Izar - don't remember..

- Eskimo Nebula.. bluish nebula.. need to get familiar with the location, before it goes away..

- Double planetory - way too faint and tiny in Jon's scope itself.

Browsing thru finder without using red-dot or telerad was lil hard.. is using telerad consdered to be cheating :)? Finder is not focused either. Need to get comfortable with the view in the finder.. right angled finder helps..

- M35 - faint and tiny image in my M35. Need to watch out for the size of the object in low magnifications.

- Saturn - ???

M95-96-k-leo: Quic browsing thru K-leo gals..

Coma 4565 and the irregular one.. moteling ??

M3: GC
M53: GC
NGC GC next to M53: Really faint and dispersed. Hard to tell if its a faint open cluster or the GC itself. How do they identify it ?

- M63 Sunflower galaxy: Elliptical. Easy to catch. CVn visible cluster. M63-M51 and Alkaid Seventh UMa forms a line.

- M51 whirlpool: Spiral feel. Spiral arms. NGC object on the right arm of M51

- M94 in CVn: Easy to spot..


- Black eye galaxy missed..