Date: October 29, 2013
Time: 7:00-8:30 PM (with Percival & Dacey, ~ 3 hours credit)
Place: Casey Key
Sky Conditions: Slightly clear, with a number of relatively high clouds. Moon not present during time of observation, waning cresent.
Instruments Used: binoculars (10x50), telescope: 26mm with F10 focal power.
Planets: Venus (neutral filter, quarter phase, slight florescent glow)
Bright Stars noted: Vega, Deneb, Altair (Summer Triangle), Antares,
Constellations noted: Lyra, Cygnus, Aquila, Scorpius, Virgo, Bootes, and Hercules. Cygnus ("v" structure found magnitude 5).
Binary Star: Alberio, one star bright blue, the other (lower to right) yellow. Polaris, secondary faint star location approx. 11 o'clock.
Deep Sky Objects: M13: globular, located in Hercules; in the tel. @ 100 power, myriad of stars in clusterous formation.
M11: open, Wild Duck Cluster. faint, distorted honeycomb-like cluster clouds.
Other: Venus located in constellation Ophiuchus.
No comments:
Post a Comment