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M31 (Andromeda Galaxy) (Galaxy, in Andromeda)
Observer: Michael Amato (e-mail: abigmick@aol.com)
Instrument: 127-mm other Location: West Haven, Connecticut, United States
Light pollution: moderate Transparency: fair Seeing: good
Time: Mon Nov 9 23:00:00 2020 UT Obs. no.: 2212
Last evening, my brother Anthony & I observed many objects with his computerized 127mm MAK. Our first planetary target was Mars. With the ortho eyepiece, Mars' land features & north polar hood really stood out. This was our best view of Mars this fall. We then viewed Jupiter where we viewed its two belts & polar caps. One of Jupiter's moons was right next to the planet. We then slewed to Saturn where the Cassini division was easily seen in Saturn's rings. We then observed Uranus which looked like small a bright blue orb in the scope. Finally, we viewed Neptune who's tiny orb looked bluish grey. We then toured five galaxies beginning with M31, The Andromeda galaxy. We were able to see the satellite galaxies M32 & M110. M32 showed very well in the scope but M110 was difficult to see. We then went to M33, The Pinwheel Galaxy. One part of this face on galaxy was seen easily. this was the big star formation part of the galaxy. The last galaxy we observed was the edge on galaxy NGC891. This galaxy looks like a pencil line in our scope. We also viewed two globular clusters M30 & M56. both did not show up well in our scope. We did have great views of several open clusters but for us the beauty of the Double Cluster GREAT! We took over five minutes to examine this. We also viewed the famous double star Albereo. Finally, during the day, we observed sunspot group AR2781 to complete our day night astronomy double header.
NGC752 (Open Cluster, in Andromeda)
Observer: Michael Amato (e-mail: abigmick@aol.com)
Instrument: 5.1-mm refractor Location: West Haven, Connecticut, United States
Light pollution: moderate Transparency: fair Seeing: fair
Time: Fri Oct 9 01:25:00 2020 UT Obs. no.: 2204
This evening, I observed the open cluster NGC752 in Andromeda. It had a lot of stars in it. I also enjoyed looking at The Pleiades which of course is much brighter. I also viewed Mars & this time the seeing allowed me to see more dark features on Mars' face than before.
NGC752 (Open Cluster, in Andromeda)
Observer: Michael Amato (e-mail: abigmick@aol.com)
Instrument: 5.1-mm refractor Location: West Haven, Connecticut, United States
Light pollution: moderate Transparency: fair Seeing: fair
Time: Fri Oct 9 01:25:00 2020 UT Obs. no.: 2203
This evening, I observed the open cluster NGC752 in Andromeda. It had a lot of stars in it. I also enjoyed looking at The Pleiades which of course is much brighter. I also viewed Mars & this time the seeing allowed me to see more dark features on Mars' face than before.
Satellite (Satellite, est. mag -9, est. to be in Andromeda)
Observer: Mark D. Schneider (e-mail: markd_s@yahoo.com)
Instrument: naked eye Location: Garden Grove, California, United States of America
Light pollution: light Transparency: fair Seeing: fair
Time: Sat Jan 3 01:22:55 2015 UT Obs. no.: 1941
Iridium 54 Flare high in the East...1st observation in 2015.
M31 (Andromeda Galaxy) (Galaxy, in Andromeda)
Observer: Michael Amato (e-mail: abigmick@aol.com)
Instrument: 50-mm binoculars Location: West Haven, Connecticut, United States
Light pollution: moderate Transparency: fair Seeing: fair
Time: Sun Oct 3 01:15:00 2010 UT Obs. no.: 1858
This evening my friend, Joe Cseh and I tried to observe Comet Hartley 2 with Joe's mounted 16X50 binoculars. To our dismay, we utterly and completely failed to pick the comet out. After recovering from our shock, we turned Joe's binos on M31, The Andromeda Galaxy. At 16X we were able to pick out the starlike core in the center of the galaxy. The rest of the galaxy fanned out nicely. The Double cluster also looked great but at 16X, we had to view each cluster seperately. We then turned his mounted binos on Jupiter and Uranus. Three of Jupiter's moons were on one side of the planet and the other one was on the other side of the planet. When we pointed the binos on Uranus neither of us was able to see any color on Uranus. This has been on going since I started observing Uranus about two months ago. Every other year I was able to see a blue green color on Uranus but not this year with either a telescope or binoculars. Finally for a laugh, we tried to look at Uranus with our naked eye and we both had no trouble seeing Uranus with our naked eyes.
M31 (Andromeda Galaxy) (Galaxy, in Andromeda)
Observer: Joe Caggiano (e-mail: jcaggiano@mindspring.com, web: http://home.mindspring.com/~jcaggiano/)
Instrument: 10-inch Dobsonian reflector Location: Glenside, Pa, USA
Light pollution: light Transparency: excellent Seeing: good
Time: Sun Aug 12 06:20:00 2007 UT Obs. no.: 1696
Massive at both 30x and 48x. The core was bright with hints of the spiral structure. M32 was also bright as a large hazy star just a few arcminutes away.
M31 (Andromeda Galaxy) (Galaxy, in Andromeda)
Observer: Joe Caggiano (e-mail: jcaggiano@mindspring.com, web: http://home.mindspring.com/~jcaggiano/)
Instrument: 10-inch Dobsonian reflector Location: Glenside, Pa, USA
Light pollution: moderate Transparency: good Seeing: fair
Time: Sun Aug 5 05:30:00 2007 UT Obs. no.: 1688
Viewed the Andromeda Galaxy last night for the first time with the new scope. Even though it's location was still fairly low in the east with a good deal of light pollution, I spied more detail than I could in more ideal conditions with my old 6". Also, M32 was much more apparent too. Viewed through a 40mm ep for 30x.
M31 (Andromeda Galaxy) (Galaxy, in Andromeda)
Observer: Michael Amato (e-mail: abigmick@aol.com)
Instrument: 25-inch Dobsonian reflector Location: West Haven, Connecticut, United States
Light pollution: moderate Transparency: fair Seeing: fair
Time: Sat Sep 23 03:00:00 2006 UT Obs. no.: 1565
This weekend, I attended the Connecticut Star Party. While most of the weekend was clouded out, we did have a two hour window of clear skies on Friday night to observe some deep space objects. The largest telescope at the star party was a 25" Dob and that is what I looked through. We observed Galaxies M31 and M32. M31 has a bright central core which can be seen, even with the naked eye. We were able to see one dust lane and the outer halo of the galaxy with no trouble. M32 is a satellite of M31 and it is a small eliptical galaxy. We also observed three small ngc galaxies which were very hard to see. We also observed four nebulas, including The Crab, Dumbell, Little Dumbell and the Blinking Nebula. The Crab Nebula was difficult to see but the glow from it was obvious. We couldn't see any detail. Both the Dumbell Nebulas showed quite well and their dumbell shapes were obvious. The Blinking Nebula is a star with a small area of blue nebula around it. The star appeared to be blinking to all who observed it. Finally, we observed open clusters M36, M37 and M38. Both M36 and M38 filled the scope with beautiful stars while M37 showed many stars in a small compact area. Alas, the clouds then returned.
M31 (Andromeda Galaxy) (Galaxy, in Andromeda)
Observer: mihai mataringa (e-mail: mihaimataringa@yahoo.com)
Instrument: 7x50-mm binoculars Location: constanta(obs.location:Prilipeti,Romania), romania
Light pollution: none Transparency: good Seeing: good
Time: Fri Aug 18 21:25:00 2006 UT Obs. no.: 1587
The central core of M31 clearly visible as a bright patch,a little prolonged.The oval halo around it stretches about one third of the field of view(witch is approx.6degrees).A very nice view this night being done the good sky conditions.My first observation of M33(galaxy in Triangulum) was a little difficult,but i find it considering the distance between beta And-M31,witch is approx.equal with that of betaAnd-M33 in the opposite direction.This distance is about the diameter of my 7x50 binos field of view.M33 appears like a fuzzy patch ,not very bright without visible central core,more easily detected by peripheral vision and with small movements of the instrument. (
M31 (Andromeda Galaxy) (Galaxy, in Andromeda)
Observer: Luis Drags (e-mail: nst@yahoo.co.uk, web: http://www.geocities.com/night_sky_tome)
Instrument: equatorial reflector Location: No location given
Time: Thu Jan 12 23:23:23 2006 UT Obs. no.: 1539
Large!! actually make that enormous! The bright core is a large ball of stars at the center with the oval halo reaching far past either edge of the field even at the lowest power (60x, 1deg), extended northeast-southwest, a dark rift separates a spiral arm along the southeastern edge, M32 and M110 flank the core above and below
NGC7662 (Planetary Nebula, in Andromeda)
Observer: Sriram.M.Gubbi (e-mail: sriram_gubbi@yahoo.co.in, web: http://dino.lm.com/artists/display.php?name=sriram_gubbi)
Instrument: 6-inch other Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Light pollution: moderate Transparency: fair Seeing: good
Time: Tue Nov 29 20:30:00 2005 UT Obs. no.: 1439
I searched this planetary nebula for about 30 minutes as there was a bad haze. Finally I gave up and just casually moved my telescope through the field and there it was! I used the Orion Skyglow Filter to confirm that it was the planetary. I appears bluish white. Cool object.
Gamma And (Almach) (Multiple Star, in Andromeda)
Observer: Lee S (e-mail: nospam-laspain123@aol.com, web: http://cgi.tripod.com/astro-cracker/cgi-bin/YaBB.pl)
Instrument: 2.8-inch equatorial reflector Location: Atlanta, GA, USA
Light pollution: severe Transparency: good
Time: Tue Oct 18 02:30:00 2005 UT Obs. no.: 1369
The skies were clear and cloudless. I was observing with an Orion Observer 70 on an Alt-Az mount. I was able to find the double star Almach (Gamma Andromedae) by star hopping from Cygnus to Cassiopeia. The city lights make it difficult to see any but the brightest of stars and constellations. I was able to get the double star centered in my red-dot site and use the 10mm (70x) Explorer II to split it into two stars. One was clearly larger than the other. I thought the smaller one looked whitish-blue.
NGC7662 (Planetary Nebula, in Andromeda)
Observer: Akarsh Simha (e-mail: akarsh_simha@fastmail.fm)
Instrument: 8-inch equatorial reflector Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Light pollution: moderate Transparency: fair Seeing: good
Time: Fri Sep 23 16:00:00 2005 UT Obs. no.: 1337
Very bright, beautiful, quite large, slightly blue planetary. Largely in contrast to NGC 6210, it is nearly 5 times larger (I suppose). The field nearby is full of bright stars. The object forms a triangle with two fairly bright stars.The planetary is clearly distinguishable from a star even at 83x magnification. At 170x, it is a simply must see! It shows a nearly circular shape. Blue colour is very little, but much more than NGC 6210 and much less than NGC 3242 and NGC 7009. It stands up to its name: "The Blue Snowball". Very easy to find - I found it at first shot!!
NGC752 (Open Cluster, in Andromeda)
Observer: Akarsh Simha (e-mail: akarsh_simha@fastmail.fm)
Instrument: 8-inch equatorial reflector Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Light pollution: moderate Transparency: fair Seeing: good
Time: Fri Sep 23 15:00:00 2005 UT Obs. no.: 1341
This is an excellent, large, dense cluster. This cluster was amazing!! Large no. of bright stars spread over a 1 degree field. It is a must see object! It is strange that this is not a messier.
M31 (Andromeda Galaxy) (Galaxy, in Andromeda)
Observer: Andrew Cooper (e-mail: acooper@pobox.com, web: http://www.siowl.com/)
Instrument: 46-cm Dobsonian reflector Location: TIMPA, near Tucson, Arizona, United States
Light pollution: light Transparency: fair Seeing: fair
Time: Sun Aug 28 07:21:00 2005 UT Obs. no.: 1297
Large!! actually make that enormous! The bright core is a large ball of stars at the center with the oval halo reaching far past either edge of the field even at the lowest power (60x, 1deg), extended northeast-southwest, a dark rift separates a spiral arm along the southeastern edge, M32 and M110 flank the core above and below
M32 (Galaxy, in Andromeda)
Observer: Andrew Cooper (e-mail: acooper@pobox.com, web: http://www.siowl.com/)
Instrument: 46-cm Dobsonian reflector Location: TIMPA, near Tucson, Arizona, United States
Light pollution: light Transparency: fair Seeing: fair
Time: Sun Aug 28 07:10:00 2005 UT Obs. no.: 1296
Bright! round even halo with no detail, very distinct and bright core, M32 just a hint of glow at the northwest edge of the field
M31 (Andromeda Galaxy) (Galaxy, in Andromeda)
Observer: Michael Amato (e-mail: abigmick@aol.com)
Instrument: 17.5-inch Dobsonian reflector Location: Colbrook, Connecticut, United States
Light pollution: none Transparency: excellent Seeing: excellent
Time: Sun Aug 28 02:30:00 2005 UT Obs. no.: 1288
My friends Steve Borer, Mike Dzubaty and I spent the weekend camping in the northwest hills of Connecticut. On Saturday evening, we set up Mike's 17.5" dob for some observing before the expected cloud cover arrived. For Galaxies, we started off observing M31. In the jet black skies of the northwest hills, M31 showed more than just its core. The spiral effect was very obvious. One of its satellite galaxies M110, also looks like a smaller version of a spiral galaxy even though it is not considered to be a spiral. M32 is a brighter yet smaller satellite galaxy. As the clouds rushed in, I had time to observe M33 with my binoculars. The face on galaxy filled almost half my field of view. Earlier in the evening, we started to observe globular clusters. M4 looks almost like an open cluster. There seems to be a line of stars that runs in the middle of it. M22 is very impressive with a lot of individual stars seen. M13 is a little more impressive, also with a lot of individual stars seen. For some reason, in binoculars, M22 is much more impressive than M13. For that matter, even M4 is a better binocular object than M13. I don't understand why this is. For open clusters, M6,7,21,& 24 are outstanding, whether in the telescope or binoculars. M8, the Lagoon nebula, shows a cluster of stars on one side and nebulosity on the other side. It is also a great binocular item. The nebulosity in M 20, the Trifid nebula, showed its classic dust lanes within the nebula. Finally M17, the Omega nebula, could be seen amidst a cluster of stars. Finally, the milky way itself was beautiful. The great rift was very obvious. Scanning the milky way with my binoculars netted me M11 and the coathanger star cluster.
M110 (Galaxy, in Andromeda)
Observer: Akarsh Simha (e-mail: akarsh_simha@fastmail.fm)
Instrument: 8-inch equatorial reflector Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Light pollution: moderate Transparency: fair Seeing: good
Time: Fri Jun 10 15:00:00 2005 UT Obs. no.: 1322
This beautiful galaxy in Andromeda is a satellite of M31. M110 is very small and its elliptical shape is very clearly cognizable. The whole thing looks like a hazy patch about 0.5 arc degree from M31. It reveals a brightness gradient, with highest brightness at center which decreases rapidly with distance from the center of the patch. Very small, but conspicuous and beautiful. A must see object.
M31 (Andromeda Galaxy) (Galaxy, in Andromeda)
Observer: Akarsh Simha (e-mail: akarsh_simha@fastmail.fm)
Instrument: 8-inch equatorial reflector Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Light pollution: moderate Transparency: fair Seeing: good
Time: Fri Jun 10 15:00:00 2005 UT Obs. no.: 1321
The well known and very bright M31 is impressive even on such cloudy days. Even near the horizon, it is easy to observe. Central brightness and surrounding haze is clearly seen. It is elongated. The nearby M110 also offers a beautiful sight!
M31 (Andromeda Galaxy) (Galaxy, in Andromeda)
Observer: Emil Neata (e-mail: forvert2000@yahoo.com, web: http://www.astroclubul.org/emilneata)
Instrument: 60-mm refractor Location: Craiova, Romania
Light pollution: light Transparency: fair Seeing: fair
Time: Tue Jan 25 00:00:00 2005 UT Obs. no.: 1167
M 31 - The elongated shape is visible even with the naked eye. The galaxy is very large, it doesn’t fit in the eyepiece field.
NGC7686 (Open Cluster, in Andromeda)
Observer: Emil Neata (e-mail: forvert2000@yahoo.com, web: http://www.geocities.com/deep_sky_astronomy)
Instrument: 114-mm Dobsonian reflector Location: Craiova, Romania
Light pollution: light Transparency: good Seeing: good
Time: Wed Nov 10 03:00:00 2004 UT Obs. no.: 1106
NGC 7686 is composed of 10 bright stars, the other stars of the cluster are pretty faint. At a magnification of 53x I observed faint traces of nebulosity (the unresolved stars of the cluster). NGC 7686 is easily discernible from the background.
M31 (Andromeda Galaxy) (Galaxy, in Andromeda, Est. RaDec 60)
Observer: Joe Caggiano (e-mail: jcaggiano@mindspring.com)
Instrument: 6-inch equatorial reflector Location: Horsham, Pa., USA
Light pollution: severe Transparency: excellent Seeing: fair
Time: Wed Oct 6 02:00:00 2004 UT Obs. no.: 1070
Lots of zodiac/light pollution from all directions up to about 30 degrees. Found M31 easy enough as it won it's battle against the light. Oddly enough, tonight was easy spotting the larger of its 2 companions, and M32 was in a perpendicular position to the Andromedan Galaxy, at about the 11:00 position (as judged by my perspective through the eyepiece). The core of M31 was not as large and definable as it was the other night but still easily visible. Afterwards, I tried yet again for M33, but fell short of my goal. Giving up on the pinwheel I moved my attention back to M57. (see M57 observations) before heading back in.
M31 (Andromeda Galaxy) (Galaxy, in Andromeda, Est. RaDec varies w/ object)
Observer: Joe Caggiano (e-mail: jcaggiano@mindspring.com)
Instrument: 6-inch equatorial reflector Location: Horsham, Pa., USA
Light pollution: moderate Transparency: excellent Seeing: excellent
Time: Mon Oct 4 02:00:00 2004 UT Obs. no.: 1063
Decided to use my Celestron 15x70 Skymaster Binos due to having company over and did not have the 6" reflector cooled down. M31 was easily visible and the core looked very well. Tried to locate Triangulum (M33) but could not due to it's diffuse nature and the impending light from Philadelphia. The Double Cluster also was very obvious and the amount of stars in the FOV is always overwhelming to me. M13 was rather faint in the binos. The cluster was about the size of the full moon is to the naked eye. Very faint and could see only the core when looking around the edges of the FOV and not straight on. M29 was also conspicuous in Cygnus but I always am drawn to the populated star field rather than M29 itself. I missed out on M57. Right at the apex point at the time of me going to bed. This morning at 0600 EST when I awoke, Venus and M42 were out but I did not have a chance before getting ready for work. Perhaps tomorrow.
NGC404 (Galaxy, in Andromeda)
Observer: Giorgos Koronis (e-mail: giorgos.koronis@lies.com)
Instrument: 8-inch Dobsonian reflector Location: Parnon mountain, Greece
Light pollution: none Transparency: excellent Seeing: fair
Time: Fri Jul 16 23:00:00 2004 UT Obs. no.: 1041
A nice little galaxy next to the star beta And(Mirach).Its also called Mirach's ghost.A good name indeed.It looks like an "optical ghost" moving the telescope around though shows that its a real object.
M31 (Andromeda Galaxy) (Galaxy, in Andromeda)
Observer: Sriram.M.Gubbi (e-mail: sriram_gubbi@yahoo.co.in)
Instrument: 50-mm refractor Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Light pollution: moderate Transparency: excellent Seeing: excellent
Time: Sun Jun 20 04:30:00 2004 UT Obs. no.: 1193
This is one of the most difficult objects to see even from naked eye on a dark sky and with telescope,a cat's eye must be there.i was really thrilled to see the galaxy thruough my telescope for the first time on a cold midnight of autumn. (for my luck only that time of the night was clear)
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