Continued..
There are bunch of clusters in nearby area of m103, so started browsing them. considering moonlite, probably OCs are better to observe.
NGC663 OC: While browsing for m103, saw another cluster next to it, which was probably better/bigger than m103.
NGC654 OC: Yet another tiny OC, but still can be identified easily.
NGC637 OC: Seemed to have "gun" shape, bright smaller. but because of tight concentration, feels like a cluster.
NGC559 OC: don't remember anything special in this one..
NGC457 OC: This is definitely bigger and had a curved alignment of stars.
NGC436 OC: Not impressive..also lil bit difficult identify the cluster.
NGC225 OC: Easy catch betn Gamma and Kappa Cas. Bigger..wider.. don't remember the shape again..
M29 OC: Easily visible in 16".typical shape.. seemed tiny.
Perseus double cluster: At high mags, completely looses its charm, At 28mm UWAN, seemed nice.
~11pm, was lil bit tired, also lil cloudy.. so decided to lie down for a while in the car trunk. The space is huge as compared to it seems. Can comfortably fit in two people without any trouble. Still wasn't able to sleep.. Pleiads on east, while Jupiter on west clearly visible thru car windows. Jon got up around ~00:30..everything was clear by then..no clouds and no moon.. excellent seeing.
M42 Orion - m43: At horizon, the trapezium was too wavy. visited it again after an hour when it was lil up in the sky.. It was excellent.. 6 stars in trapezium clearly visible. Awesome seeing. In 28mm UWAN, the nebulousity was fabulous, feeling up the whole 80deg EP. M43 next to it was showing the nebulosity too.. Easily supported high mags.. the internal details of two dark clouds near trapezium was also clearly visible.. indeed gives 3D feeling. The nebulosity near running nebula cluster was also visible.. still ll hard to discern the dark running man. is this just a photo graphic object? probably it is.. Jon has never seen it either.
M78 - bump up mags... nebulosity on next star also. 2071??
M1 Crab
Auriga clusters with 2 ngc objects
M44 cancer
ngc7331
Cephus, cluster + galaxy
stephans quintet
Cephus u cephi IC OC fuziness
sculptor gal 253, gc 288
new scultor gal 247 easy find.. huge ..faint.. with refractor also
M41 - CMa
M46 - planetory
M47
Gemini M35 - ngc next
Eskimo nebula
Double planetory
Asterism 37 OC 2169
Tau CMa
Thors helmet
M74 - next to aries
Doubles:
Rigel
Castor - refractor reflector refractor,
Beta Mono ceris - triplet
lambda orionis - almost like cancer
sigma orionis - 6 star system
milky way alignment - cephus alignment, scultor alignment
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