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Other (Other, est. to be in Corona Borealis)
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: Tue May 5 02:30:00 2020 UT Obs. no.: 2149
Last evening, I browsed the stars around The Northern Crown. I finally got a peak of the famous R Corona variable star. The article in Astronomy Magazine showed this star at 6.7 magnitude a while ago. Last night, when I looked at it, it seemed to dim to around 8th magnitude. I will be checking out this star often. I also checked out the Eta star which is a 4.2 magnitude orange star. This is another star heading to its demise in the not to distant future.
Satellite (Satellite, est. mag -7, est. to be in Corona Borealis)
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: Thu Jun 12 03:53:24 2014 UT Obs. no.: 1916
Iridium 32 high in the East
Comet (Comet, est. mag 4.5, est. to be in Corona Borealis)
Observer: Michael Amato (e-mail: abigmick@aol.com)
Instrument: 80-mm binoculars Location: West Haven, Connecticut, United States
Light pollution: moderate Transparency: fair Seeing: good
Time: Thu Oct 26 23:45:00 2006 UT Obs. no.: 1574
This evenimg, My friend, Mike Dzubaty and I observed Comet Swan, which has suddenly brightened. We were easilly able to spot it with our naked eyes before we started to observe the comet with Mike's mounted 11X80 binoculars. The comet appeared to have a slightly greenish tinge to it. We were able to see the comet's tail with relative ease. Compared to globular cluster M13, Comet Swan appeared to be more than twice the size and magnitude of M13. We also got to observe M31, the Double Cluster, the Coat Hanger as well as Albereo, the double star.
Comet (Comet, est. mag 8, est. to be in Corona Borealis)
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: Mon May 1 01:30:00 2006 UT Obs. no.: 1530
This evening, my friends, Steve Borer, Mike Dzubaty, Mike's son and daughter Mike and Tanya and I attempted to observe Comet 73p-c with mounted 10X50 binoculars. To our surprise, we were able to see fragments B & C. Fragment B was a fuzzy blotch with with a short stubby tail and fragment C was a smaller fuzzy blotch in which no tail was seen. I think that our abillity to see the comet with mounted binoculars now bodes well for the comet to be fairly bright by mid month.
NGC5958 (Galaxy, in Corona Borealis)
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 19:31:00 2004 UT Obs. no.: 1040
A faint galaxy in Corona Borealis.Just visible with averted vision as a faint smudge at 91x.Well,I observed it just because I wanted to see a deep sky object in an "empty" constellation according to most observing guides.
Other (Other, est. mag 5.0, est. to be in Corona Borealis, Est. RaDec 15h39m, +36d38')
Observer: Dave Mitsky (e-mail: djm28@psu.edu)
Instrument: 17-inch equatorial reflector Location: Lewisberry, PA, USA
Light pollution: moderate Transparency: poor Seeing: fair
Time: Mon Jun 2 02:30:00 2003 UT Obs. no.: 818
Using the 17" f/15 classical Cassegrain at the ASH Naylor Observatory I observed some binary stars on Wednesday and Thursday nights last week along with Jupiter and Mars (on Wednesday) and a number of bright extended deep-sky objects (M11, M26, M22, M28, M21, M17, M16, M18, M23, M24, M25, M8, M20, M4, M10, M12, M14, M19, M27, and M57 on Wednesday night and M100, M99, M98, M66, and M65 on Thursday night). The transparency was poor but with the way the weather has been so far this spring one has to take what one gets. I used magnifications of 162, 202, and 259x. Struve 1835 in Bootes was quite nice. Also observed were Cor Caroli, 24 Comae Berenices, 2 Comae Berenices, and 39 Bootis. For those of you who haven't seen it before 24 Com is an excellent binary. In fact, some call it the Spring Albireo due to its similar contrasting colors. Last night (Monday) the transparency deteriorated rapidly. In addition to observing the young cresent moon, Jupiter, and a few extended deep-sky objects (M13, NGC 6210, and M57) I bagged Zeta Coronae Borealis (162 and 202x), which is a splendid double star. It consists of a blue 5.0 magnitude B8 primary and a 6.0 magnitude comes separated by 6.3" at a position angle of 305 degrees.
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