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Satellite (Satellite, est. mag -3, est. to be in Eridanus)
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 30 02:34:00 2016 UT Obs. no.: 1963
Iridium 77 Flare in the south despite high clouds.
Comet (Comet, est. mag 4.5, est. to be in Eridanus)
Observer: Michael Amato (e-mail: abigmick@aol.com)
Instrument: 50-mm binoculars Location: West Haven, Connecticut, United States
Light pollution: moderate Transparency: fair Seeing: good
Time: Thu Jan 16 01:10:00 2014 UT Obs. no.: 1943
This evening, my brother Anthony, my friend Joe & I observed Comet Lovejoy. In 10X50 Binoculars, the comet was a big smudge with a nice fantail. A longer faint tail extended out of the fantail. We also viewed the Orion Nebula in the binos & it was brighter than the comet. A great evening of astronomy.
Satellite (Satellite, est. to be in Eridanus)
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 Feb 7 02:47:00 2008 UT Obs. no.: 1759
Iridium 3 made a VERY nice Flare tonight SW of Rigel.
NGC1535 (Planetary Nebula, in Eridanus)
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: good Seeing: good
Time: Mon Dec 26 23:30:00 2005 UT Obs. no.: 1455
All I can say about this is.... yet another greenish planetary nebula. The only thing was that I felt happy for seeing a deep-sky object in Eridanus.
Comet (Comet, est. mag 5.0, est. to be in Eridanus)
Observer: Michael Amato (e-mail: abigmick@aol.com)
Instrument: 127-mm other Location: West Haven, Connecticut, United States
Light pollution: light Transparency: fair Seeing: fair
Time: Sat Dec 18 03:00:00 2004 UT Obs. no.: 1132
Tonight, I observed Comet Machholz with my 127mm Mak. It appears the comet's head has two bright stellar points. I tried 61X and 123X and the lower power actually was the better view. The comet's tail is still short and fanshaped. I could not see the faint ion tail that I saw two nights ago. Overall, the comet is more impressive in 10X50 binoculars. I also observed M42 and M43, the Orion Nebula. My 127mm MAK shows M42's color as a pale green. M43 was completely detached and showed no color.
Comet (Comet, est. mag 4.5, est. to be in Eridanus)
Observer: Michael Amato (e-mail: abigmick@aol.com)
Instrument: binoculars Location: West Haven, Connecticut, United States
Light pollution: light Transparency: fair Seeing: fair
Time: Thu Dec 16 03:00:00 2004 UT Obs. no.: 1131
Tonight, I once again observed Comet Machholz with my 10X50 binoculars. It looks to me like the comet's tail is starting to grow. I estimate the tail is now about one third of a degree long. The starlike point in the comet's head seems less obvious tonight than it did last night.Tonight, I could not see it naked eye like I did last night.
Comet (Comet, est. mag 4.5, est. to be in Eridanus)
Observer: Michael Amato (e-mail: abigmick@aol.com)
Instrument: binoculars Location: West Haven, Connecticut, United States
Light pollution: light Transparency: good Seeing: good
Time: Wed Dec 15 03:00:00 2004 UT Obs. no.: 1130
I took another look at Comet Machholz with my 10X50 binoculars. I can now see a bright starlike point in the comet's head. The tail still looks short and fan shaped. I surprised myself when I realized I had no trouble seeing the comet naked eye. The comet is still a month away from being its brightest. I really believe this is going to be a fine naked eye comet to observed during the next two months.
Comet (Comet, est. mag 6.0, est. to be in Eridanus)
Observer: Michael Amato (e-mail: abigmick@aol.com)
Instrument: binoculars Location: West Haven, Connecticut, United States
Light pollution: moderate Transparency: fair Seeing: fair
Time: Thu Dec 9 04:00:00 2004 UT Obs. no.: 1126
After reading Joe Caggiono's excellant observations of Comet Machholz, my friend, Joe Cseh and I decided to observe the comet with our 10X50 binoculars. The comet looked like a big blob and it was an easy to see object in my binoculars. I was able to make out the fan shaped tail that Joe Caggiono described. The comet will reach peak brightness in about a month and I honestly think it will be an easy naked eye object. Beginning next week, I will be observing the comet with my 127mm MAK telescope and my 1.5X night vision scope.
Saturn (Planet, est. mag -2, est. to be in Eridanus)
Observer: Joe Caggiano (e-mail: jcaggiano@mindspring.com)
Instrument: 6-inch equatorial reflector Location: Horsham, Pa., USA
Light pollution: light Transparency: excellent Seeing: excellent
Time: Mon Nov 29 03:00:00 2004 UT Obs. no.: 1118
Tonight was my first viewing of Saturn this season. Spotting it high in the East by 10:00 PM, I noticed that the angle of the rings was tighter and closer to edge-on since my last viewing of it last spring. 2 moons were visible though I am not sure which 2 they were. Also visible was a single equatorial belt as well as the Cassini Division. Viewed at 203x.
NGC1535 (Planetary Nebula, in Eridanus)
Observer: John Callender (e-mail: jbc@west.net, web: http://www.west.net/~jbc/)
Instrument: 8-inch Dobsonian reflector Location: Carpinteria, CA, USA
Light pollution: light Transparency: excellent Seeing: fair
Time: Sun Dec 5 06:20:00 1999 UT Obs. no.: 500
After a fruitless attempt to star hop to this bright planetary by working my way south, I switched to an eastbound approach, and found it fairly quickly. As I've noticed in the past with other planetaries, it wasn't seeing it that was the challenge, but detecting its non-stellar nature at the low power I use for star-hopping. Also making things tough was that it is in a fairly star-poor region of the sky, at least for the Tirion atlas I need to use south of Dec. -6 (the limit of the single Uranometria volume I own). Anyway, once I found it it was easy at higher power: a big, fuzzy ball.
Omicron Eri (Beid) (Star, in Eridanus)
Observer: John Callender (e-mail: jbc@west.net, web: http://www.west.net/~jbc/)
Instrument: 8-inch Dobsonian reflector Location: Carpinteria, CA, USA
Light pollution: light Transparency: excellent Seeing: fair
Time: Sun Dec 5 06:00:00 1999 UT Obs. no.: 499
After reading the description in Burnham's I tried to spot the white dwarf that is the brighter component of the fairly close pair (Omicron 2 Eridani B-C) that is in turn the distant companion of Omicron 2 Eridani A. Burnham's describes it as "the only white dwarf star which can honestly be called an easy object for the small telescope." I could certainly detect it as a dim companion of the primary star, but couldn't spot the C star.
Other (Other, est. mag ~13.5, est. to be in Eridanus, Est. RaDec 4h41m27s, +2h51'46")
Observer: Dave Mitsky (e-mail: djm28@psu.edu)
Instrument: 17-inch equatorial reflector Location: Harrisburg, PA, USA
Light pollution: moderate Transparency: good Seeing: fair
Time: Tue Nov 9 03:30:00 1999 UT Obs. no.: 489
This was my second observation of the new supernova SN 1999em, which is located in the face-on spiral galaxy NGC 1637. SN 1999em is 15".4 west and 17".0 south of the nucleus of its host galaxy. There is a right triangle of faint field stars on the eastern side of the nucleus. The supernova appeared to be slightly more dim than on 11/5/99 UT. For a recent image see http://members.es.tripod.de/rferrand/1999em.jpg. I used magnifications of 162, 202, and 259x to view this exploding star.
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