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Satellite (Satellite, est. mag -3, est. to be in Cepheus)
Observer: Mark D. Schneider (e-mail: markd_s@yahoo.com)
Instrument: naked eye Location: Orange, California, United States of America
Light pollution: moderate Transparency: fair Seeing: good
Time: Thu Jan 20 01:45:00 2022 UT Obs. no.: 2323
Using Spot the Station, Heavens-above, and Stellarium with clear sky after sunset, I saw the ISS high in the Northwest as it went over before my 60th Birthday (January 24th, 1962 at 12:31 am in Palm Harbor Hospital which is gone forever in Postal Code 92640),
Satellite (Satellite, est. mag -3, est. to be in Cepheus)
Observer: Mark D. Schneider (e-mail: markd_s@yahoo.com)
Instrument: naked eye Location: Orange, California, United States of America
Light pollution: light Transparency: fair Seeing: fair
Time: Mon Aug 2 04:15:00 2021 UT Obs. no.: 2280
Disneyland fireworks currently begin at 9pm and the ISS was seen from where they ended but it passed close to Polaris and Deneb before fading toward Delphinus in the East. Maple Street outside Strada is mostly quiet with trees towering.
Satellite (Satellite, est. mag -6, est. to be in Cepheus)
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: Sun Nov 2 01:51:32 2014 UT Obs. no.: 1938
Iridium 45 flare high in the Northeast...lasted for about 15 seconds.
Satellite (Satellite, est. mag -6, est. to be in Cepheus)
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: good Seeing: good
Time: Wed Nov 4 01:27:28 2009 UT Obs. no.: 1838
Iridium 62 FLARE high over Postal Coade 92840 tonight...somewhat of an Epiphany.
Other (Other, est. mag 8, est. to be in Cepheus)
Observer: Michael Amato (e-mail: abigmick@aol.com)
Instrument: 16-inch Dobsonian reflector Location: Milford, Connecticut, United States
Light pollution: moderate Transparency: fair Seeing: fair
Time: Sat Oct 18 00:45:00 2008 UT Obs. no.: 1802
Last evening, my friends Steve Borer, Rob Masud, Mike Dzubaty and I went to a local star party in Milford Ct. Among the objects we enjoyed viewing was the garnet star located in Cepheus. Right now the garnet star is at its brightest so its color was a golden orange instead of the red color it shows when it is at its dimmest. I have seen this star when it is at its dimmest and the red color is striking. Try to observe this star if you can because the color is great.
Meteor (Meteor, est. to be in Cepheus, Est. RaDec 90)
Observer: Joe Caggiano (e-mail: jcaggiano@mindspring.com)
Instrument: naked eye Location: Glenside, Pa, USA
Light pollution: light Transparency: excellent Seeing: good
Time: Thu Nov 3 02:37:00 2005 UT Obs. no.: 1391
While looking for starfields and nebulae in the Cassiopia Region a small white meteor shot past. It appeared to be coming from the nearby Cepheus Region. Time was approx. 9:37 PM. It was not too bright and was very short (less than 5 degrees) heading due North. Approx magnitude may have been 0.
NGC7160 (Open Cluster, in Cepheus)
Observer: Emil Neata (e-mail: forvert2000@yahoo.com, web: http://www.geocities.com/deep_sky_astronomy)
Instrument: 150-mm Dobsonian reflector Location: Craiova, Romania
Light pollution: light Transparency: good Seeing: good
Time: Wed Nov 10 03:00:00 2004 UT Obs. no.: 1094
NGC 7160 is a small cluster in Cepheus, composed of 10 faint stars that surround a brighter one. In the south I've noticed two bright stars.
NGC7160 (Open Cluster, in Cepheus)
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: Sat Jul 17 23:03:00 2004 UT Obs. no.: 1045
A small poor open cluster in Cepheus.Doesn't stand out well from the starry background.Needed Uranometria charts to verify the identification.Easy at 46x.
NGC7380 (Bright Nebula, in Cepheus)
Observer: Jaakko Saloranta (e-mail: j_saloranta@hotmail.com, web: http://fda.iwarp.com)
Instrument: 8-inch Dobsonian reflector Location: Rajakyl, Finland
Light pollution: moderate Transparency: good Seeing: fair
Time: Thu Oct 3 22:31:00 2002 UT Obs. no.: 690
((The description is really from Sh2-132, but why I can't write it in the object field?!))This nebula can be located between two fairly bright 6.5 magnitude stars in Cepheus/Lancerta border.With an O-III filter and 38x, the object is visible as an large, round, fairly faint patch of nebulosity with about 10 stars within it's system. Very faint nebulous streaks are running S from the middle and continue atleast 1 degree S. E part of the nebulosity is fairly brighter. A dark patch is running N-S direction in the object's W side but is barely visible.
Comet (Comet, est. mag 9.5, est. to be in Cepheus)
Observer: Dave Mitsky (e-mail: djm28@psu.edu)
Instrument: 80-mm binoculars Location: Springfield, VT, USA
Light pollution: none Transparency: excellent Seeing: good
Time: Sun Aug 11 03:25:00 2002 UT Obs. no.: 671
I had some additional views of Comet Hoenig at the 67th annual Stellafane ATM converntion this past weekend. On Friday night I observed the comet through a fellow DVAA member's 13.1" Coulter and a 35mm Panoptic on the observing field near the McGregor Observatory. The diffuse coma seemed slightly asymmetrical but I could see no tail. The next night Comet Hoenig was easily visible through my Celestron 20x80's. I then proceeded to put it into view with a neighboring Tele Vue TV-85 refractor by sighting along the tube. Next I walked a few more feet to where Al Nagler's new binoviewer equipped TV-102i refractor was located. I asked Al if he'd like to see the comet and he indicated that he certainly would. I had the fuzzball in view in a jiffy with the help of Al's Starbeam pointer. The comet was still a rather undistinctive glow through the binoviewer and a pair of another new Tele Vue product, namely the 24mm Panoptic, despite the excellence of the optics involved. My final observation of C/2002 O4 (Hoenig) on Saturday night was through a rather expensive pair of 15x60 Zeiss Classics that Phil Harrington was evaluating. This was one excellent pair of binoculars and the comet and many other celestial objects, M31 in particular, were displayed in very fine fashion.
NGC40 (Planetary Nebula, in Cepheus, Est. RaDec 00h13.0m, +72d32')
Observer: Dave Mitsky (e-mail: djm28@psu.edu, web: http://www.ezonline.com/ash/obs.htm)
Instrument: 20-inch equatorial reflector Location: Harrisburg, PA, USA
Light pollution: light Transparency: good Seeing: fair
Time: Wed Oct 13 01:10:00 1999 UT Obs. no.: 485
I spent some time on Wednesday night observing with a 20" f/10 classical Cassegrain, a 28mm orthoscopic eyepiece, and a Rainbow Optics StarSpectroscope diffraction grating. My friends and I viewed the spectrum of the Wolf-Rayet central star of the tenth magnitude Herschel 400 planetary nebula NGC 40. Ionized carbon produced a bright emission line in the star's spectrum. A bit later we looked at the many dark absorption lines in the spectrum of the variable star Mira. Mira, a type M supergiant, was dimly visible to the unaided eye.Also observed were the crescent moon, M57 and possibly the nearby 15th magnitude galaxy IC 1296, M8, NGC 40, a fading Comet Lee, Jupiter, and the 11th magnitude galaxy NGC 7448. We used a 40mm Orion UltraScan (127x), a 25mm University Optics MK-70 (203x), and a 16.8mm Orion MegaVista (302x) during the course of the evening, which turned out to be one of those where more talking was done than observing.A shadow transit by Io was underway. As my friends and I watched we employed a 7" aperture mask as the seeing was marginal. Io transited the CM around 02:00 UT and the GRS was near Jupiter's trailing limb about that time.
Comet (Comet, est. mag 10.1, est. to be in Cepheus, Est. RaDec 22h08m, +70d56')
Observer: Dave Mitsky (e-mail: djm28@psu.edu)
Instrument: 12.5-inch equatorial reflector Location: Harrisburg, Pa, U.S.A.
Light pollution: moderate Transparency: fair Seeing: good
Time: Tue Oct 7 00:20:00 1997 UT Obs. no.: 231
I found the newly discovered Comet 1997 T1 (Utsunomiya) which was located to the northeast of Beta Cephei. Using the ASH 12.5" f/6.5 Cave Newtonian at 79x I located the dim fuzzball. Going to 121x produced a better, if not overwhelming, wiew. Later I used the ASH 17" f/15 classical Cassegrain at 118, 259 and 202x to observe the comet. The best view was at 202x. There was some brightening towards the center of the pseudonucleus.
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