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Satellite (Satellite, est. mag -4, est. to be in Hydra)
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 Mar 22 03:32:35 2015 UT Obs. no.: 1947
Iridium 6 DOUBLE Flare below Jupiter.
M68 (Globular Cluster, in Hydra)
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 May 16 01:25:00 2009 UT Obs. no.: 1822
Last evening my brother Anthony, my friends Steve Borer, Mike Dzubaty and his son Mike went to a local star party at Silver Sands State Park. The first object we observed was Saturn. Both hemispheres showed some cloud bands with its rings almost tilted edge on. Four moons of Saturn were also visible. We observed five galaxies with M104 showing its dust lane fairly well. Right near M104 was the Alligator Asterism which I saw for the first time ever. M82's dust lanes also showed up well also but its companion M81 was a lot brighter. M51 and its companion NGC 1595 cores looked like a pair of head lights in the 16' Dob. As for globular clusters M3 and M13 were there usual bright sights. There was more speckling in M13 than in M3. It's been many years since I observed the very faint globular cluster M68. With the 16" Dob. we were able to actually see a few individual stars. Thank goodness for large scopes. The grand finale was M57 the ring nebula which really was showing well. For icing on the cake we had two passes from the ISS. Star Paries, that's the life.
M48 (Open Cluster, in Hydra)
Observer: Emil Neata (e-mail: forvert2000@yahoo.com, web: http://www.nightskyinfo.com)
Instrument: 6-inch Dobsonian reflector Location: No location given
Light pollution: light Transparency: good Seeing: good
Time: Mon Oct 10 23:00:00 2005 UT Obs. no.: 1359
M 48 is a quite conspicuous object and under good conditions it can be seen with the naked eye. The cluster is large and dense, in the center I've seen a grouping of brighter stars.
NGC2855 (Galaxy, in Hydra)
Observer: Emil Neata (e-mail: forvert2000@yahoo.com, web: http://www.nightskyinfo.com)
Instrument: 6-inch Dobsonian reflector Location: No location given
Light pollution: light Transparency: good Seeing: good
Time: Mon Oct 10 23:00:00 2005 UT Obs. no.: 1358
NGC 2855 is a magnitude 12.3 galaxy in Hydra, located 25' west of 26 Hydrae. It has a round shape and small size, with a diffuse but evident nucleus.
NGC2855 (Galaxy, in Hydra)
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.: 1095
NGC 2855 is a mag. 12.3 galaxy in Hydra, located 25' W of 26 Hydrae. It has a round shape and small size, with a diffuse but evident nucleus.
Jupiter (Planet, est. mag -2.4, est. to be in Hydra)
Observer: Dave Mitsky (e-mail: djm28@psu.edu)
Instrument: 17-inch equatorial reflector Location: Lewisberry, Pennsylvania, USA
Light pollution: moderate Transparency: good Seeing: good
Time: Sun Mar 28 03:00:00 2004 UT Obs. no.: 977
Early Saturday night I had good views of Jupiter's Great Red Spot transit through the Astronomical Society of Harrisburg's 12.5" f/6.5 Cave Newtonian and the 17" f/15 classical Cassegrain. What might have been Callisto or a dark barge was visible as well.By the time that Callisto's shadow ingressed on the disk of Juiter the seeing had taken a definite turn for the worst. When Io joined the party two shadows were visible but by the time of the rare triple transit (3:00 UT) the seeing was so bad (the worst that I've experienced in many months) that it was not possible to discern Callisto's shadow in the north polar region despite stopping down both scopes to as little as 6 inches. We could make out the shadows of Io and Ganymede with some effort. So it was 2 out of 3 (the shadows of Callisto and Io and Io and Ganymede) two times. Efforts to image the event through the 17" with a Meade LPI device were not very successful.Other objects observed with the 12.5 and 17" included Mercury, Venus, the Moon, Saturn, Titan, M65, M66, M104, and the famous variable star R Leonis. Several eighth and ninth magnitude stars in Taurus were occulted by the Moon during the early part of the night. I also viewed the Moon and Jupiter with the new ASH 127mm f/12.1 Orion StarMax Maksutov-Cassegrain
NGC3242 (Planetary Nebula, in Hydra)
Observer: Paul (e-mail: paul_ohstbucks@msn.com)
Instrument: 16-inch Dobsonian reflector Location: Kansas City, MO, USA
Light pollution: severe Transparency: good Seeing: good
Time: Tue Mar 11 03:00:00 2003 UT Obs. no.: 782
What a great first object for the new 16"!! At 310x, it was fantastic! There was a large outer halo with a football shaped ring inside the halo. It was extending pretty much east west. Inside the bright football shaped ring was a darker central region. Inside the darker central region was the central star. What a great object!!
NGC3621 (Galaxy, in Hydra, Est. RaDec 11h18m16s,-32d48'42")
Observer: Dave Mitsky (e-mail: djm28@psu.edu)
Instrument: 14.5-inch Dobsonian reflector Location: The Grand Canyon, Arizona, USA
Light pollution: none Transparency: excellent Seeing: excellent
Time: Sun Jun 17 01:25:00 2001 UT Obs. no.: 566
In June of 2001 I took an astronomy related vacation to Arizona, visiting the Lowell Observatory, Anderson Mesa, the Grand Canyon, Meteor Crater, the Skywatcher's Inn, and Kitt Peak. The weather gods were kind to me in the beginning but an early onset of the summer monsoon made stargazing impossible during the second half of my trip when I was in the southern part of the state.While attending the opening night of the Grand Canyon Star Party I viewed the only unlogged object of my Astronomical League's Herschel 400 project. Under the very dark skies and more southerly latitude of the South Rim of the GrandCanyon, NGC 3621 proved to be an easy target, which was quite unlike the casefrom the site in Pennsylvania where I do most of my observing. Jane and Morris(Mojo) Jones, who I knew through the Internet, were gracious enough to allow methe use of one of their 3 Litebox Dobs, a 14.5" f/4.8 that provided an excellentview of this 9.6 magnitude H400 galaxy with the help of a 19mm Tele Vue Panoptic. NGC 3261 lay within a diamond of sixth and seventh magnitude field stars. Thisface-on spiral appeared as a fairly large (10.0' or greater), somewhat elongated oval with a ratherbright nucleus.
NGC5694 (Globular Cluster, in Hydra, Est. RaDec 14h40m, -26d32')
Observer: Dave Mitsky (e-mail: djm28@psu.edu)
Instrument: 17-inch equatorial reflector Location: Harrisburg, PA, USA
Light pollution: moderate Transparency: fair Seeing: fair
Time: Sat Apr 28 07:12:00 2001 UT Obs. no.: 549
This rather small (2.2') and faint globular cluster was easier to see than I expected given it eleventh magnitude brightness and far southerly declination. No resolution was achieved using 118, 144, 202, and 259x. The best view of this fuzzball was at 202x.
Comet (Comet, est. mag 7.6, est. to be in Hydra, Est. RaDec 9h01m, -19d06m)
Observer: Dave Mitsky (e-mail: djm28@psu.edu)
Instrument: 17-inch equatorial reflector Location: Harrisburg, PA, USA
Light pollution: moderate Transparency: fair Seeing: good
Time: Sun May 16 02:05:00 1999 UT Obs. no.: 457
Comet C/1999H1 (Lee) was discovered by amateur astronomer Steve Lee at an Australian star party on April 16th. I had no trouble locating theseventh magnitude fuzzball at 118x. The comet, which was located near the Hydra-Pyxis border, was fairly large (about 8') and moderately diffuseand was best seen at 202 and 259x. Due to its low altitude and light pollution Comet Lee was barely visible in the 5" f/5 finderscope.
V Hya (Variable Star, in Hydra)
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: good Seeing: good
Time: Sat Apr 18 05:48:00 1998 UT Obs. no.: 318
I've wanted to see a carbon star for some time, but never had before. The May S&T listed a number of them, so I took advantage of the high pressure and resulting clear skies to look at V Hydrae, the reddest in the article's list of spring carbon stars (B-V 5.5). As with my efforts to observe star color before (with color-contrasting multiples) I was at first disappointed when I saw it: my habitual averted vision reduced it to a dull gray. When I stared right at it, though, and as I observed it over time, I came to appreciate how red it really was, and ended up being very impressed. I wouldn't call it a deep ruby red, but it was certainly a brick red-orange.
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