Diary osservativo_ luce_ First Light: I just started this summer, in the first fortnight of August to do some observations of NGC Messier objects and some, unfortunately, was a very unfortunate period between clouds and the moon, good evening and there have been a couple. I could still establish the first real eye, a 13mm Hyperion, with a good field apparent even though the stars are stretched to the edges with 93x notevolmente.Quindi I managed to get some great satisfaction: I started immediately with M13 that actually looked a lot like the obsession of the site with an 8 ", and already here I got the urge to push myself a little more up with the magnification to see if it improves the resolution. Even with the 10mm Sirius Plossl (one eye rather poor), in the 120X 'alone can be resolved much better, the same was true for M92, M3, M5, M15, M2: the most facili.Ho tried on M71, M10, M12, M14, M56, which would be very weak and a little ghostly, counting, however, that the moon was rising behind the trees and so that the sky was not dark affatto.Ho then made a few laps in the area of \u200b\u200bthe shield is visible in the foothills of Sagittarius, hidden mostly by alberi.La most objects were already visible in the finder: I went to M16, but the no trace of nebulosity, I thought perhaps a glimpse of a stain, but I'm not sure and you could see only the cluster of stars, then I moved up here and M17 the Omega was visible at 93x some chiaroscuro and with an elongated shape evident good contrast background. M11, 93x, was clear and completely solved, you could see the two brightest stars at one end and the middle, but the color difference was not evident to me looked the same, I must have been some other open cluster, but I can not say quali.M27 was beautiful, I saw this patch grigissima generous in size that stands out very clearly in the background and you could see the look easily bilobed; actually how I read some books looks like a white photography and nero.Sono past to M57 and I must say that point it was not easy given its proximity to the zenit.Già in 25mm showed clearly how a ball a little blurry, but the central hole nisba; things to 93x changed since it was much larger and you could see quite well close to the star and averted vision clearly the central hole, and here I wanted to raise a little magnification. She was beautiful as usual and its satellites, M31, M33 I tried but it was too low and behind the lime casa.Il double cluster in Perseus was dazzling and he was just in the field of 25mm and 13mm nell'Hyperion half. The passive tracking system Intelliscope I think I'm able to see Stephan's Quintet, I could see a spot to 48X, but nothing more, I have not even tried to push more là.Avrei wanted to try to find some galaxy NGC6946 in Cepheus as but should not be too hard, or planetary NGC40.Non I've tried practically gave the sky a little dark. In the sky I tried without much hope or some piece of the Veil of the Crescent, but no risultato.In I could use some filter effects, such as a OIII.Comunque under a dark sky I just can not do, unfortunately, was part molto.Questa of sky visible from my place: the terrace of the house in the village of Alta Trebbia.
Evening 08/27/2007 For the first I took the remote from the terrace to the garden where I could enjoy a greater portion of the sky clear ... with the intention of observing something new, starting from the bear Maggiore.Cielo terse and clear, but dreadful humidity: wet pipe and covered mirror condensate from an unpleasant (initially the stars were surrounded by a ghastly white halo, which was then partly dissolved). With the "deep-sky observation in hand and everything was red torch posto.Ho preparoto with some effort the wooden platform: everything is level, you can start! And here:
M81-82: obvious, very clear, both in the 20mm, 48X. M81, very bright nucleus, are often quite vaguely spiral structure. M82, a beautiful cigar-shaped, sharply allungata.Qualche slight indentation, perhaps a Lliv chiaroscuro.
M101: really Grenda, 48X, Asti alone with a little more generic point evidente.Spettrale.
M109: barely visible nucleus surrounded suffused by a small halo, 48X, shape ovale.Inquadrata mag.12 between two stars.
NGC2841: roughly spherical shape, tenuous halo that fades.
NGC3077. to the limit, very close to M81 cavaocchi.Macchietta blurred.
NGC6802: very rich region of stars in Vulpecula, we see some more concentrated region.
M51-NGC5195: the two nuclei in the halo suffused with brilliant stand point, you realize the shape of the bridge spirale.Evidente collegamento.Unica.
M63 (Sunflower): good lighting, clear oval nucleus, very similar to M109, but more brilliant.
Unfortunately, after about half an hour it was all clouded the end of osservazioni.Peccato, I had other targets prepared ... are still very satisfied with these observations, it was the first time I saw all these objects: M81-M82 and M51, then, I have emozionato.Oltretutto'm happy to be able to observe something as weak as NGC3077 or M101, I still thank Intelliscope!
evening of 11/04/2006, full moon at the peak of brightness (mag, was visible across the valley almost to the horizon), partly cloudy skies and no breeze gelida.Seeing Best of the wind, but almost perfetta.Ed clarity here that after two months back to support the eye to an eyepiece.
Start now focus the dob although in the light of day, I realized I was not doing a very precise work and in fact not just between wind and optical line I had some difficulties to focus with precision, though in the end I never passed the point of 93x and then the star was more than acceptable.
Perhaps the mood is not the best, it is not easy weight reduction after two months and do not curse the moon, I aligned myself without too many problems, the paintings, all in five minutes (using Vega and Capella) and I was ready to begin ( Warp Factor 0.4). In addition, I hand the book of Albano and a quadernino where I noted the items of the evening, my flashlight was the Moon.
Having said this delivery with the primary objective, some objects are consigliatimi from Albano: M1, M33, M31, Ngc253, Ngc7293, Ngc246.Il result is the worst I have seen only M31 and I lost a satellite to come. The three
Ngc I could not even covered by the points because trees ... while I moved on to M1 multiple times, with the help dell'Intelliscope, but the glow of the satellite nonstro has not forgiven, it will be for next time.
then went exploring dell'Auriga open clusters, observed: NGC 1647,1746,1807,1664,1778,1664,2281, and these appeared to 48X rather poor stars, the more assomogliando asterisms. (I remember a comment Albano, said a few words that M103 is seen, paradoxically, almost better from worldwide suburban to disappear because it is the rich background stars of the Milky Way Lattea.Qui there was no ... but the moonlight and, of course, allows the display of only the brightest stars, so I do not think my comments are may compare with those made under a sky scuro.Sono qusi a special case ...). Very interesting ... Ngc2281 "very bright stars that form a parallelogram, from which radiate two antennas are also more or less like bright stars arranged symmetrically ". I continue with some Messier M38, M36, M37 ..." orange star that stands in the middle, not very compact. "Truly beautiful, even if not rich, 43x.
The evening continues with Perseus, observed: Ngc957, 1245,1513,1342,1528,1545, M 34.Alcuni of them to the limit, the field was very poor indeed, nothing entusiasmante.Riporto two remarks: Ngc1528 ... "really nice and composed of fairly bright stars that are arranged in a circle around a very poor area, from which some arches branching stelline.Sembravano their legs and arms of a man unique. " Ngc1545 ... "a few bright stars arranged in a triangle, of which we see clearly the color difference of the two brightest." M34 Very nice, pretty picture of stars luminose.Come dell'Auriga for items I have not gone beyond a 48X . He could not obviously lack the Doubles of Perseus, and despite the moonlight (maybe you saved to the distance to the Moon) had rich of stars bright, almost dazzling than the faint open clusters included: almost entirely in 25mm at 48X was a true spectacle.
It's up to then near the Cassiopeia zenit.Osservati: Ngc129, 225,281,663,654,1027,7789, IC1805, M103.Ripor to some notes; Ngc663 ... "beautiful group of stars into two groups, distinction. Ngc7789-654-1027 appeared very weak, almost insignificant probably because of small size, consisting of stars too faint. IC1805 ... "bell'asterisma, sweet curve of six or seven very bright stars arranged in a row from a very poor stand out beyond belief." M103 ... " small group of very bright stars, which are clearly distinguishable three stars brighter than the other: one orange, the other blue, and the last white, beautiful ".
first time with M45, and I must say it was a great thrill, as for each of the novel to resto.Visibile the naked eye very easily in spite of the Moon, the brightest stars were framed almost complete in the field of 25mm, estimated at 1.3 ° reali.Evidenti only ones of magnitude lower, was really a nice picture, I shall look into the differences in the sky dark, who knows.
Pass quickly on Twins: M35 fills the field of roughly 25mm to 48X, full of stars, some of which are quite bright, the background indefinitely emerge here and there over the stars weak Ngc2158 also identified but is part of storage precedente.Segue Ngc2129 ... "discreet storage, in which there are four bright stars arranged in a trapezoid rectangle."
first time on M42, the famous nebula that had never before had the opportunity to osservare.Appena the sky is clear of fog, around half past midnight, and suddenly appeared I immediately pointed to the object. Not start it at 48X distinguished all four stars of the Trapezium, but only three, while the nebula is rather uniform clear opening ali.Riosservandola about 20 minutes later, perhaps the greatest distance from the moonlight, at 93x the four stars of the Trapezium is showed very clear and we started to see some irregularities and frastaglitura edges, while also easily emerge chiaroscuro.
I took the opportunity to center the couple M81-M82, rather than immediately basse.La first appeared in the eyepiece, while it took me a little more to frame and orient in the same field M82.La first time, in fact, the early September, the position of two different ... and then I remembered I struggled a poco.Tuttavia occur at 48X rather pale though divesrsi aspects of the two galaxies are easily noticed (as impressive as the picture has changed since the night without Moon two months ago, I was completely disoriented.).
conclude with M31, which is also very different from what I remembered in previous observations, which I inexplicably lost a satellite ... but I added the observation of storage Ngc752 open ... "beautiful blend of bright stars arranged in chains." (which I found to Hershel part of the catalog 400).
Evening of 05/01 / / 07, the moon rises at 19:55 and starts to get dark around 18.30: so there is time to say a brief, three-quarters of an hour to make the most .
The weather conditions are favorable, the sky is clear and bright with a slight breeze that swept the other hand does not take away too many points on the scale of seeing, 4-5 ° temperature, humidity low. Mirrors are more acclimated to the telescope (on the terrace was taken around noon for a careful collimation) el'Intelliscope is operating just before 19 when it became dark.
The lack of a small program with a good list of items unfortunately lost me a long time ...
M42, low on the horizon yet. His first and last observation dates back to a full moon night in November, curious to see the "metamorphosis" that involves a dark sky, at 48x shows completely different, so they seem to another object. Minutes pass and even the dark adaptation improves and behold, the first details emerge. At 93x with the 13mm Hyperion the three-dimensional feeling is staggering: very clear wings, while the central body, very dark, stands on the more it seems clear the trapeze nebulosità.Il filtered by the dust and placed in a second plane to the nebula. But time is running out and the listings there are still several items, I will return many times later.
A mid-evening in fact, I can use for the first time the B / TMB 5mm. With 240x are included in the "eye of the Eagle", the Trapezium and M43, it is a really exciting and unusual for me. Impressive amount of filaments that emerge ...!
M1, near the zenith. This When I run, I was sure! In thirty seconds, with the usual help, bring it to the center of the field of 25mm at 48x, as if by magic appears the famous nebula. The individual now and in direct view, easy: it is a formless oval, dark gray surrounded by a star poor field. After a few seconds with an eye to the eyepiece, the shades of gray buys very slight nuances particularly near the center. Going with the magnification I noticed no improvement, look for anything ...
short of the Toro open clusters, observed: Ngc1647-1746-1807-1817, not rich, but composed of bright stars. Of course, you add the Pleiades ...
M33, just above the head . It too easy and visible at first glance. A 93x shows very extended, so as to occupy almost the entire field of view, a hue much like the "Crab Nebula", I notice a rather compact core and clear, while all around are revealed here and there the arms of the galaxy; In fact you can see the clear differences in color in the large halo from which they emerge.
M38-37-36, can hardly fail to respond, wonderful. A 48x, show up as a dotted circle of fine silver needles. Are best at 93x and here we can appreciate the wide field of Hyperion, and now the mantle has become a silver carpet, from center to the edge of the field not count the stars, some orange or light green, other stars emerge from the bottom. Point. I continue with some other open cluster dell'Auriga ...
Ngc1023 (GX127), is a beautiful and easy to mag.9.4 elliptical galaxy in Perseus. It has already evident at 48x in a very rich star field, but gives his best at 93x, the nucleus is bright and surrounded by a minute alone. I continue with the inevitable double cluster in Perseus, high above his head and easily visible in direct view with the naked eye ... while having a modest adjustment in the dark. Never seen it, I still have in mind the beautiful image, this summer, but no match. The two clusters are almost connected by bridges and bright stars seem to blend, a true cluster of stars.
NGC 2024, "Flame Nebula". Very difficult, but there is! I state that certain conditions are not favorable: in fact, to 19.30 Orion is still very low, then if we add the soft glow of the moon rising and the damn streetlight pointing almost straight in the eye ... I can be satisfied. It took ten minutes for it to emerge from the heaven I know that the nebula is located east of Alnitak, but oriented upside down with the vision and everything else was very difficult. So I turned around and then carefully holding it outside the field 25mm eyepiece at 48x, not having the no idea if they were above or below, left or right. One, two, three ... ten laps and finally giving some tap the telescope, I see a pale, milky spot divided roughly in half by a "gang" darker. The vision comes and goes, to be sure I have a couple of laps, but the nebula is still there, I was wrong.
satisfied for the evening, dinner is waiting on the table, watching the moon peeping through the mountains ... Before the soft glow that announces its rise, it is pink. The bands of clouds are thin and very clear stand on the surface pitted, but here's another that appears. In a few seconds that seem minute, the black silhouette of a horizontal plane through the moon, now yellow. Slowly the ball of light is cut clean off, you wake a black and dark, you see that is artificial and can not be a cloud ...
