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Date: 21 Aug 2006 22:28:18
From: Starlord
Subject: Going out
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Just checked outside, even with the little wind that is blowing, it's not
bad out tonight, so for awhile going to shut down the computer and fire up
the car and move it to the dirt driveway that's by my big garden and set up
my dob and put in a few hours of viwing. I even thing I'll find M8 tonight.
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Date: 22 Aug 2006 09:04:00
From: Starlord
Subject: Re: Going out
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I was out there and I found M8, only I wish I hadn't. It was always one of
the summer objets I'd show off when in Hawaii, but here, the
palmdale/langcaster lp wipes out the neb itself and all you see is the stars
in it. So I slowly moved the scope up and down and sideways viewing the
other objects I could find that the lp didn't bother. Then I found something
and I'm not sure what I found. Looing at the area with my telrad, it was 1.5
thumbs across and almost 2 thumbs up from the top star of the teapot. With
the LP it might have been a neg, but my centerfold astronomy map only shows
the open cluster m11 near that area, but this object was just above what
could have been an open cluster, but the object itself looked to be long,
almost 1/2 the view with a 25mm ep, it was acress the view of a 10mm EP, now
with the lp whatever I was looking at could have been anything, but just
looking at it it was almost as if I was seeing a small galaxy, but I thing
it most likly somekind of a neb.
After not figuring out what that was/is, I moved over to M31 and just moved
around that section of the sky too.
Came back in about 2am.
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"Starlord" <starlord@sidewalkastronomy.info > wrote in message
news:7uWdndcDwe6DC3fZnZ2dnUVZ_vOdnZ2d@inreach.com...
> Just checked outside, even with the little wind that is blowing, it's not
> bad out tonight, so for awhile going to shut down the computer and fire up
> the car and move it to the dirt driveway that's by my big garden and set
> up my dob and put in a few hours of viwing. I even thing I'll find M8
> tonight.
>
>
> --
> The Lone Sidewalk Astronomer of Rosamond
>
> Telescope Buyers FAQ
> http://home.inreach.com/starlord
> Sidewalk Astronomy
> www.sidewalkastronomy.info
> Astronomy Net Online Gift Shop
> http://www.cafepress.com/astronomy_net
> In Garden Online Gift Shop
> http://www.cafepress.com/ingarden
> Blast Off Online Gift Shop
> http://www.cafepress.com/starlords
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> http://starlord.bloggerteam.com/
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>
>
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Date: 22 Aug 2006 20:07:35
From: SkySea
Subject: Re: Going out
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If you're far enough to think you're seeing M11 and it's nebulous, I'm
going to venture that you didn't get quite as far up as M11, and you
got M17 instead.
>"Starlord" <starlord@sidewalkastronomy.info> wrote:
>Then I found something
>and I'm not sure what I found. Looing at the area with my telrad, it was 1.5
>thumbs across and almost 2 thumbs up from the top star of the teapot. With
>the LP it might have been a neg, but my centerfold astronomy map only shows
>the open cluster m11 near that area, but this object was just above what
>could have been an open cluster, but the object itself looked to be long,
>almost 1/2 the view with a 25mm ep, it was acress the view of a 10mm EP, now
>with the lp whatever I was looking at could have been anything, but just
>looking at it it was almost as if I was seeing a small galaxy, but I thing
>it most likly somekind of a neb.
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- Dale Gombert (SkySea at aol.com)
122.38W, 47.58N, W. Seattle, WA
http://flavorj.com/~skysea
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Date: 22 Aug 2006 16:53:59
From: Starlord
Subject: Re: Going out
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Will, I googled m11 and nope it's not what I was seeing, this is one time I
wish I did have a way to take a photo, but I'll keep looking at maps and
stuff to see if I can find out what it was.
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"SkySea" <SkySea@aolREMOVE.com > wrote in message
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> If you're far enough to think you're seeing M11 and it's nebulous, I'm
> going to venture that you didn't get quite as far up as M11, and you
> got M17 instead.
>
>>"Starlord" <starlord@sidewalkastronomy.info> wrote:
>>Then I found something
>>and I'm not sure what I found. Looing at the area with my telrad, it was
>>1.5
>>thumbs across and almost 2 thumbs up from the top star of the teapot. With
>>the LP it might have been a neg, but my centerfold astronomy map only
>>shows
>>the open cluster m11 near that area, but this object was just above what
>>could have been an open cluster, but the object itself looked to be long,
>>almost 1/2 the view with a 25mm ep, it was acress the view of a 10mm EP,
>>now
>>with the lp whatever I was looking at could have been anything, but just
>>looking at it it was almost as if I was seeing a small galaxy, but I thing
>>it most likly somekind of a neb.
>
> =============
> - Dale Gombert (SkySea at aol.com)
> 122.38W, 47.58N, W. Seattle, WA
> http://flavorj.com/~skysea
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Date: 22 Aug 2006 23:09:26
From: SkySea
Subject: Re: Going out
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Okay. How about M17?
>"Starlord" <starlord@sidewalkastronomy.info> wrote:
>Will, I googled m11 and nope it's not what I was seeing, this is one time I
>wish I did have a way to take a photo, but I'll keep looking at maps and
>stuff to see if I can find out what it was.
>>"SkySea" <SkySea@aolREMOVE.com> wrote
>> If you're far enough to think you're seeing M11 and it's nebulous, I'm
>> going to venture that you didn't get quite as far up as M11, and you
>> got M17 instead.
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- Dale Gombert (SkySea at aol.com)
122.38W, 47.58N, W. Seattle, WA
http://flavorj.com/~skysea
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