The evening was clear (more clouds are coming), and I felt that I would go mad if I don't see some starlight after two weeks of cloudy weather, so I had a quick session with 80mm in my backyard.
I spent some time (more than I would like to) on two planetary nebulae, NGC 6886 and 6905 in Delphinus/Vulpecula. I don't think I've found 6886 which is very small, but I could see 6905 as a small dim cottonball building a small triangle with two stars. NGC 7006 followed; it is a very special feeling to look at a globular cluster on the other end of our galaxy, some 140,000 light years away! It was small and dim but distinctive at high power.
In spite of the street lights behind the house I decided to give the Veil a try. I saw both parts pretty easily with UHC filter and 24mm Panoptic, they almost fit in the same FOV. 9mm Nagler with filter gave a hint of detail in both parts.
I finished with NGC 7331, looking forward to the autumn galaxies and cursing the first cold (ah, observing in Florida with Ivan!).
Dmitri
I spent some time (more than I would like to) on two planetary nebulae, NGC 6886 and 6905 in Delphinus/Vulpecula. I don't think I've found 6886 which is very small, but I could see 6905 as a small dim cottonball building a small triangle with two stars. NGC 7006 followed; it is a very special feeling to look at a globular cluster on the other end of our galaxy, some 140,000 light years away! It was small and dim but distinctive at high power.
In spite of the street lights behind the house I decided to give the Veil a try. I saw both parts pretty easily with UHC filter and 24mm Panoptic, they almost fit in the same FOV. 9mm Nagler with filter gave a hint of detail in both parts.
I finished with NGC 7331, looking forward to the autumn galaxies and cursing the first cold (ah, observing in Florida with Ivan!).
Dmitri
