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Meteor (Meteor, est. mag -1.5, est. to be in Perseus)
Observer: Michael Amato (e-mail: abigmick@aol.com)
Instrument: naked eye Location: Milford, Connecticut, United States
Light pollution: moderate Transparency: fair Seeing: fair
Time: Wed Aug 12 05:30:00 2009 UT Obs. no.: 1829
Early this morning my friend Steve Borer and I observed the Perseid Meteor Shower for about an hour at Anchor Beach in Milford Ct. Most of the meteors were faint but a couple of them were about 1.5 magnitude and yellow. One meteor left a brief smoke trail and this was the brightest meteor we saw. After about an hour the low clouds and fog rolled in and we had to pack up and left.
Comet (Comet, est. mag 3.7, est. to be in Perseus)
Observer: Michael Amato (e-mail: abigmick@aol.com)
Instrument: other Location: West Haven, Connecticut, United States
Light pollution: moderate Transparency: fair Seeing: fair
Time: Sat Dec 1 00:30:00 2007 UT Obs. no.: 1740
This evening I observed Comet 17P/Holmes with my night vision scope. Spaceweather.com suggested the comet would be easier to see with a night vision scope than with binoculars. The comet did appear much easier to observe in a night vision scope than with binoculars. Although it looked smaller in size I was able to get a definate shape of the comet which looked rather oval to me. Others who can get their hands on a night vision scope should try to observe the comet this way.
Comet (Comet, est. mag 3.5, est. to be in Perseus)
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 Nov 20 01:00:00 2007 UT Obs. no.: 1736
This evening, my brother Anthony and I from our location and my friend Joe Cseh from his location observed Comet Holmes. The bright star Mirfak is now being occulted by the comet. Mirfak shines through the bottom part of the haze surrounding the comet. The comet still seems to be dimming and we had a very difficult time seeing it naked eye. The comet will be in front of Mirfak for a few more days.
Comet (Comet, est. mag 3.5, est. to be in Perseus)
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 Nov 20 01:00:00 2007 UT Obs. no.: 1736
This evening, my brother Anthony and I from our location and my friend Joe Cseh from his location observed Comet Holmes. The bright star Mirfak is now being occulted by the comet. Mirfak shines through the bottom part of the haze surrounding the comet. The comet still seems to be dimming and we had a very difficult time seeing it naked eye. The comet will be in front of Mirfak for a few more days.
Comet (Comet, est. mag 3.5, est. to be in Perseus)
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 Nov 20 01:00:00 2007 UT Obs. no.: 1736
This evening, my brother Anthony and I from our location and my friend Joe Cseh from his location observed Comet Holmes. The bright star Mirfak is now being occulted by the comet. Mirfak shines through the bottom part of the haze surrounding the comet. The comet still seems to be dimming and we had a very difficult time seeing it naked eye. The comet will be in front of Mirfak for a few more days.
Comet (Comet, est. mag 3, est. to be in Perseus)
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: Wed Nov 7 01:15:00 2007 UT Obs. no.: 1732
This evening I observed Comet 17/P Holmes with my 10X50 binoculars. At the same time my friend Joe Cseh was observing the comet at his house with 18 power binoculars. We both tried to spot any hint of the tail that has been showing up in the latest photos of the comet. We both agreed we may have seen wisps of the tail on the comet's left side but we couldn't be sure. However the comet's size has increased and the blue green color remains. We did notice that as the comet continues to grow in size its magnitude is growing dimmer. With the naked eye the comet no longer looks stellar as its size continues to grow. I also took a quick look at the Pleiades and Hyades open cluster in my binos. As usual they were grand. Tomorrow evening my friends and I will try to spot the comet's tail in our telescopes.
Comet (Comet, est. mag 3, est. to be in Perseus)
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: excellent
Time: Tue Oct 30 12:30:00 2007 UT Obs. no.: 1727
Finally, I captured my first Comet ever on CCD. Comet 17P / Holmes unexpectedly flared up from magnitude 16.6 to better than magnitude 3 over the past week. It is currently bright enough to see with the unaided eye. Viewing at 30x and 60x, there was a beautiful blue halo surrounding the whole comet. It looked like a full moon behind heavy cloud cover. The core was very easily identified as was the coma and tail. Currently, it is approximately 1.5 AU's from the Earth (about 135 million miles away). I have posted pics on my website.
Comet (Comet, est. mag 2, est. to be in Perseus)
Observer: Michael Amato (e-mail: abigmick@aol.com)
Instrument: 6-inch equatorial reflector Location: West Haven, Connecticut, United States
Light pollution: moderate Transparency: fair Seeing: fair
Time: Tue Oct 30 04:30:00 2007 UT Obs. no.: 1726
This evening my friends Steve Borer, Mike Dzubaty, Joe Prisco and I observed comet 17P/Holmes with my 10X50 binoculars and Mikes 6" scope. The second great comet of 2007 now looks bigger than before and it definately has a green tinge to it. In the telescope the stellar point within the comet was still there. We also put the scope on the pleiades to observe the nebula around M45's brighter stars. The blue color of the nebula contrasted nicely with the green comet. Finally with the naked eye the comet looked like a fuzzy star.
Comet (Comet, est. mag 2.5, est. to be in Perseus)
Observer: Michael Amato (e-mail: abigmick@aol.com)
Instrument: 90-mm refractor Location: West Haven, Connecticut, United States
Light pollution: moderate Transparency: fair Seeing: good
Time: Sun Oct 28 03:00:00 2007 UT Obs. no.: 1724
This evening my brother Anthony and my friends Joe Cseh and Mary Yurchic observed the second great comet of 2007, Comet 17P/Holmes. In my 10X50 binoculars the comet looked egg shaped with a large area of haze going around the comet. We then pointed Joe's 90 mm refractor towards the comet. We were easily able to see a bright stellar point within the comet. Even with the naked eye this comet is easy to see. Bright moonlight didn't hinder our observations at all. This is the fifth grat comet that I've seen. The others were Comet Arend-Roland in 1957 when I was only eleven years old, Hyachataki in 1996 and yes I know I spelled it wrong, Hale-Bopp in 1997 and McNought earlier this year. I'm looking forward to viewing Comet Holmes when the moon is out of the way.
Meteor (Meteor, est. mag -1, est. to be in Perseus)
Observer: Michael Amato (e-mail: abigmick@aol.com)
Instrument: naked eye Location: West Haven, Connecticut, United States
Light pollution: moderate Transparency: fair Seeing: fair
Time: Mon Aug 13 02:00:00 2007 UT Obs. no.: 1692
Last night as the peak of the Perseid Meteor Shower was nearing its peak, clouds were rushing in so I had to observe fast. In the short time I observed I was able to see four yellow meteors, two of them -1 magnitude, and one blue meteor about 0 Magnitude. One of the the meteors left a smoke trail which disappeared almost imediately. The skies here tonight are expected to be clear so I'll try again tonight.
NGC869 (Open Cluster, in Perseus)
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.: 1697
Spotted the double cluster in Perseus. This was indeed the highlight of the night. At 48x, I have never seen so many stars in this region. With the added aperature of my older scope, I could easily pick out the color between the cluster's blue stars and the background orange and yellow stars. It was a massive conglamoration!
Meteor (Meteor, est. mag 1, est. to be in Perseus)
Observer: Michael Amato (e-mail: abigmick@aol.com)
Instrument: naked eye Location: West Haven, Connecticut, United States
Light pollution: moderate Transparency: fair Seeing: fair
Time: Sun Aug 12 03:00:00 2007 UT Obs. no.: 1691
Last evening my brother Anthony and my two friends Joe Cseh and Steve Borer went to the beach to watch the Perseid Meteor Shower, even though it was the night before the peak. From 10:00 PM to 1:00 AM we were only able to see anywhere from four to six meteors. Some of the meteors were blue and some were yellow. Earlier I was able to enjoy -8 mag. Iridium Flare #42. Since the meteors weren't popping the four of us did some binocular observing. We got to view M8, M21, M24, M17, M22 and M31. We also had a clear view of one of Jupiter's moons on its western side. Hopefully the the skies will be clear tonight for the peak of the Perseids.
NGC884 (Open Cluster, in Perseus)
Observer: mihai mataringa (e-mail: mihaimataringa@yahoo.com)
Instrument: 7x50-mm binoculars Location: constanta(obs.location:Prilipeti,Romania), romania
Light pollution: none Transparency: fair Seeing: good
Time: Mon Aug 28 19:45:00 2006 UT Obs. no.: 1592
NGC869 appears fainter than NGC884(which is smaller but brighter,with four stars resolved).The double cluster is located in Perseus,but it can be easily find starting from delta and epsilon Cassiopeae.NGC 884represents the top of an isosceles triangle formed with delta&epsilon Cas.On the right of NGC884 is an optical double star and above it a beautiful star formation like an arch with eight main components. ..
NGC1528 (Open Cluster, in Perseus)
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: Tue Dec 27 22:15:00 2005 UT Obs. no.: 1456
A good open cluster. It made a specific pattern. I don't remember what pattern it formed. A worth-looking object.
M76 (Barbell Nebula) (Planetary Nebula, in Perseus)
Observer: Akarsh Simha (e-mail: akarsh_simha@fastmail.fm)
Instrument: 8-inch equatorial reflector Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Light pollution: light Transparency: excellent Seeing: excellent
Time: Thu Dec 8 18:00:00 2005 UT Obs. no.: 1448
This appeared as a haze with a central bar. Quite faint. The bar appeared to be slightly thinner at the center than at the edges.
NGC1023 (Galaxy, in Perseus)
Observer: Vedran vrhovac (e-mail: vedran_vrhovac@yahoo.com)
Instrument: 8-inch Dobsonian reflector Location: Velika Gorica, Croatia
Light pollution: moderate Transparency: good Seeing: fair
Time: Mon Nov 28 17:30:00 2005 UT Obs. no.: 1422
This is pretty bright galaxy in Perseus. I used 80x TS WA eyepiece with real FOV around 0.85°. Galaxy appeared with small round center and larger, fainter halo stretching about 2' from both sides of core.
NGC1342 (Open Cluster, in Perseus)
Observer: Vedran vrhovac (e-mail: vedran_vrhovac@yahoo.com)
Instrument: 8-inch Dobsonian reflector Location: Velika Gorica, Croatia
Light pollution: moderate Transparency: good Seeing: fair
Time: Mon Nov 28 17:10:00 2005 UT Obs. no.: 1423
When I found this open cluster I was astonished. Clusters central stars looked like constellation Scorpius. In the same place where would be Graffias (BET Sco) was double star :). From now, in my logs, this cluster bears nickname "Little Scorpius".
M76 (Barbell Nebula) (Planetary Nebula, in Perseus)
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 16:45:00 2005 UT Obs. no.: 1338
Saw nothing but a hazy patch of feeble light. This planetary is so faint that under city light pollution, it is hardly visible - even thru averted vision! A finder chart helped me to find the field, but yet I could see nothing in that field. After revision of the chart, and a little struggle with averted vision, I could see a fairly large, very faint object on the base of a triangle of stars. I couldn't see any detail and didn't bother to switch to higher power. It is easy to locate using Phi Persei, but difficult to see.
M34 (Open Cluster, in Perseus)
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 07:29:00 2005 UT Obs. no.: 1298
Big, coarse, sparse, fills the low power field (60x, 1deg), less than 100 members arranged in small clumps or short sweeps of stars
Meteor (Meteor, est. mag -2.5, est. to be in Perseus)
Observer: Michael Amato (e-mail: abigmick@aol.com)
Instrument: naked eye Location: West Haven, Connecticut, United States
Light pollution: moderate Transparency: fair Seeing: fair
Time: Fri Aug 12 05:00:00 2005 UT Obs. no.: 1285
I was mostly clouded out for the Perseid meteor shower. However, the skies cleared from 1:00 AM to 2:00 AM EDT. In that period, I was seeing one meteor every five minutes or so. Unlike other years when the Perseids had a blue tinge, this years perseids all looked yellow. Since the sky was so hazy, I believe any blue light from the meteors was absorbed by the haziness. Two of the perseids that I saw were very bright. One was about -2.5 and the other about -1.
M34 (Open Cluster, in Perseus)
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.: 1159
M 34 - Fairly dense, composed of approximately 50 stars.
NGC884 (Open Cluster, in Perseus)
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.: 1067
Decided to use my Celestron 15x70 Skymaster Binos due to having company over and did not have the 6" reflector cooled down. The Double Cluster also was very obvious and the amount of stars in the FOV is always overwhelming to me. Last week while using the 6" reflector the number of starts was quadrupled. Definetly one of my favorite clusters.
M34 (Open Cluster, in Perseus)
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.: 1066
Decided to use my Celestron 15x70 Skymaster Binos due to having company over and did not have the 6" reflector cooled down. The Cluster was very obvious and the amount of stars in the FOV is always overwhelming to me. Even though the FOV in my telescope at my lowest power (30x) is about half of what it is in the binos, the number of stars is 4 times as much. I am certain this is one of my favorite clusters due to the high population of stars.
Meteor (Meteor, est. mag -1, est. to be in Perseus)
Observer: Michael Amato (e-mail: abigmick@aol.com)
Instrument: naked eye Location: West Haven, Connecticut, United States
Light pollution: light Transparency: poor Seeing: fair
Time: Sat Aug 14 02:30:00 2004 UT Obs. no.: 1050
Last night, my friends Steve Borer, Mike Dzubaty and I observed the Perseid meteor shower even though it was two days past peak. We observed from 10:30 PM EDT until 12:30 AM EDT. We were able to observe about 10 to 15 perseids during the three hour period. A few of them were as bright as -1 magnitude. At 12:30 AM EDT, our old friends, the clouds arrived and that was the end of the observing session.
Meteor (Meteor, est. mag -2, est. to be in Perseus)
Observer: Michael Amato (e-mail: abigmick@aol.com)
Instrument: naked eye Location: Colebrook, Connecticut, United States
Light pollution: light Transparency: poor Seeing: fair
Time: Thu Aug 12 03:15:00 2004 UT Obs. no.: 1049
Last night, my friends, Mike Dzubaty, his son Mike Jr., Steve Borer and I went to the northwest hills of Connecticut to obseve the Persiad meteor shower even though it was overcast. Luckily for us, the clouds broke up for two hours from 11:00 PM EDT to 1:00 AM EDT. We observed several bright meteors during the period. Most of the brighter ones were very fast movers and they seemed to have a slight bluish tinge. With so many clouds around, we were only able to see 10-15 meteors during the two hours the sky partially cleared. The brighter meteors were anywere from 0 magnitude to -2 magnitude. As an added bonus, we were able to observe an irridiam flare which was about -6 mag.
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