EMS2 Observation 4th and 6th September

[philjay]

Finally dug this off the netbook. This was from the Wednesday and Friday nights at EMS2. I did visual only

 

 

4th September 2013 Anderby Creek EMS2

 

 

Scope WOFLT98 F6.3 refractor on Heq5.Vixen LVW Eyepieces 22, 13, 5 & 3.5mm plus 2x LV Barlow.

Conditions, clear but with considerable dust and dew in atmosphere. Seeing pretty good but deteriorated as the night wore on.

 

 

2100 Set up ok alignment ok, started with a few of the usual subjects

 

M27, visual and OIII,

Double cluster

M31,32, 110, very nice view with dark lane easily discernable.

M13, resolving nicely with some magnification, very sharp possible propeller detected

M57

M15

 

Double/Multiple stars

Gamma Andromeda  2.3, 5.5 Yellow/Blue 9.6 Sep. This is a nice colour contrast, particularly nice in a widefield

 

Epsilon Bootes. Gorgeous lovely colour

 

Epsilon Peg 2.4- 8.4 WIDE 142.5, a new one on me this

 

 

6th september

Seeing good, less dust in atmosphere. 2121 hours on

 

NGC7662 Blue snowball nebula. In and out of view in 22mm but 13mm stabilised the image to a blue out of focus starlike object

 

STOCK24

 

1 PEG - 4.1  8.2 with 36 Separation   Nice mag contrast with wide separation

 

2 PEG    Interesting double with another in same 18mm fov

 

Decided to bag as many doubles in Equulei as I could as this was nice and high and has a good proportion of doubles in it

 

Gamma EQU  Bino Pair. Mags 4.7 5.9 with 353 Sep. Very wide, nice Bino Pair. Lovely in the 22mm

 

Delta EQU (STF2777)     4.6, 9.5 with    47.8 SEP  Easy.  Fascinating FOV. Main binarygroup together with 3 stars to east followed by 3 fainter unrelated stars

 

STF 2742       mag 7.4 7.4    2.8 sep Split nicely with 5mm

 

STF 2765       EQU   8.4 8.6 2.4 SEP   YEP TOOK 5MM TO DO IT

 

STF 2786       EQU 7.2 8.3 2.5 SEP 5MM EASY

 

Beta EQU A Toughy this one with mags  5.1 11.8 sep 12.1 Averted vision only. Wide in 5mm giving better contrast

 

STF 2737       1 EQU mags 6.5  10.8 sep  9.9      Surprisingly easy to split with 5mmT

 

Lambda Equ     mags 7.4 7.4 sep 2.8- Matched Pair.  Yep easily split with the 5mm

 

1 AQR  Triple  mags 5.5 11.3 11.4 with 59 - 69 Sep  Nice and wide comfortable and pretty in 13mm

 

URANUS small disc even with 7.5mm, no point in using barlow.

NEPTUNE even smaller disc

M29  

M56

NGC6826 Blinking Planetary, yep it blinks

M103 CASS

M52

NGC7510 - 60 Stars Apparently, Several brightish stars in a sort of delphinius configuration with a haze indicating more fainter but unable to resolve below 9

KING 21 Faint hazy patch not many resolved stars

Bronchis cluster

 

Spent about half hour cruising with the 9x63 binos. Cygnus area fantastic.

 

[Rusty Strings]

Busy couple of nights matey. 

[Doc]

A great and varied list Phil, it was a fantastic weekend, one to remember.