Saturday, January 4, 2014

Q2 Observations #2

Date: November 21, 2013
Time: 8:30 - 9:30 pm
Location: Backyard (North Sarasota, FL)
Sky Conditions: Mostly clear, with some lower hanging clouds. Moon: waning gibbous.

Instruments Used: naked eye observations, no binoculars/telescopes

Planets: Venus

Bright Stars noted: Deneb, Alberio, Gamma Andromeda

Constellations noted: Taurus, Andromeda, Cygnus

Binary Star: Alberio: one star bright blue, the other (lower to right) yellow. Gamma Andromeda: color difference - blue and golden. 

Deep Sky Objects: M45, The Pleiades: open, located in Taurus; seven brightest stars go under the name "The Seven Sisters"

M31, "The Andromeda Galaxy", located in Andromeda: most identifiable spiral galaxy

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