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Follow the dipper arc to Arcturus, then spike to Spica Omega Centauri globular cluster 35 degrees below Spica Springtime is my favorite observing season. In the course of an evening you can face away from our own galaxy and feast your eyes on other Milky Ways, while tracking down some of the most spectacular [...] Start your night with binoculars Here’s Mojo’s atrophotography post from the same evening. After some months away from dark skies, everything looks foreign, even to long time observers like me. I recognize the familiar constellations, but sometimes I forget where some of my favorite telescopic targets are located. On nights like this, I don’t just revisit [...] Herald-Bobroff Astroatlas Astroatlas B Chart page for Grus and Telescopium, well below Capricornus and Sagittarius NGC131 and 134 and a 5-spot of mag 10 stars NGC55 image by Morris Jones, used with permission While Mojo and I were observing at Amboy Crater on October 22, 2011, Cliff, another observer at the site pointed [...] Comet/2010 G2 (HILL) NGC7380 emission nebula and cluster The Great Galaxy in Andromeda, M31, with M32 and M110 nearby The Pegasus 1 galaxy cluster I love to take my telescope out to observe the sky, and I find that the objects studied or discovered by scientists (from the past or the present) make for an [...] Johann Bode's 1801 Uranographia, showing Quadrans Murales, Boötes and other constellations Boötes, Canes Venatici, Coma Berenices and Quadrans Muralis The Northeast sky Jan 4 at 1:00 a.m. PST. Look between Ursa Major and Minor, and the bright star Arcturus in Boötes for the location of Quadrans Muralis on the Boötes-Draco border Looking Northeast [...] Moonrise over Chuckwalla Mountains July 3, 2010 about 11:30 p.m. Third quarter moon, a half hour later My small 70mm Televue Ranger was used for the moon images Summer dark sky observing means short nights, and it’s usually too hot for comfort in the Colorado desert location we love. But Mojo and I decided [...] IC 405 and AE Aurigae Stardate: Saturday November 14, 2009. Mojo and I try to head out to our favorite dark sky observing spot every new moon Saturday night. Usually several of our Old [...] The ghoul on the moon NGC 246 the Skull Nebula IC 2118 Witch Head Nebula It’s time to get out the Milky Way and Mars candy bars, the Moon Pies and the Starburst chews. It’s Halloween! The moon — just past first quarter — will greet your trick or treaters this year. A first quarter [...] Observing report, dark sky weekend, October, 2009, Chuckwalla Bench A perfect night begins with Earth's shadow climbing in the east One one side of the green van is the Imaging zone On the other side of the green van is the visual observing zone When the clear sky chart reads perfect, we can’t wait to get [...] |
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