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Switched to Capri objects.
M30 : Easy catch.. can see it binocular as well. In 16" @ 100x, the H shape is very small, but the GC shows up fine. This object is better with higher magnification. Need to browse thru scientific articles, if they ever talk abt shape.
Saturn Nebula : Easy catch. In 10" dob, the blue disk @ 71x shows up well. You cna clearly differentiate it thank the field stars. Sor of shows the elongated shape.. In 16" @ 100x, defintely shows more in the elongated shape, hard to qualify them as "wings", but you can feel their existence. Blue and bright..
M73 : Moving in correct direction Saturn nebula catches M73 Asterism easily. 4 stars in sort of
triangle shape pops up immediately.
M72 : Moving further down, shows M72 nearby.. brighter, but very compact and smaller.
M2 : Not sure when i visited this fella last time. Very easy catch from: Capricoruns Top line left corner pair => North => bright star of Beta Aqurii => North => M2.
M15 : Again, not sure when i saw this before (NEVER.. hmmm). I remember in 2008, i have tried it once to find it in 6" scope, but didn't get it. M2 => North => Bright star of Epsilon Peg i.e Enif => little North-West => M15. Sort of near Delphenus diamond.
Both M15 and M2 seemed to be of same brightness. When observed thru binoculars, M2 doesn't have any nearby stars, but M15 is within bright star pairs. So M15 seems fainter than M2.. or M2 is easier to see than M15.
Veil : In 10" scope, without the filter, Vel is very depressing. All fuzziness is gone. You can see somewhat fuziness near star 52, but that doesn't show its broomstick shape. Other two components just don't even show up.
North American and Pelican Nebula: I have tried this nebula multiple times before and always failed. This object seems more visible photographically than visually. Jon and I tried it with NP101 and the binoculars. NP101 with the filter with 31 Nagler (~22x), shows very wide field view. Jon ponted to some sort of triangle shape, this must be the narrow part in turn joining south american peninsula. OR Not sure if it was pelican.. All other parts are just invisible..
Tried to browse thru binocs, Tried to locate the dark lanes that made the border of north american nebula, but very hard to feel the shape.
Oph 6633 and one more: Jon pointed to two clusters in Oph. Nothing impressive abt it. very dispersed open star cluster with probably 15-20 stars in it.
Browsed thru Cetus.
M77 : Not so bright galaxy. sometimes its even hard to understand how M found these objects. Seemed elliptical. there are bunch of satellite galaxies and Jon's 16" scope showed them nicely. 1055 is just aligned next to it with bright pair of stars. 1087 on southern side is fainter, but still visible. It seemed to have another companion 1090. So with larger aperture 1087-1090 pair shows up. On the opposite side of M77-1055 can find fainter 1032 again aligned with sort-of-bright stars nearby. Tried to locate 1073, but didn't see it.
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