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Observations made in the constellation Sagittarius:

M22 (Globular Cluster, in Sagittarius)
Observer: Michael Amato (e-mail: abigmick@aol.com)
Instrument: 127-mm other   Location: West Haven, Connecticut, United States
Light pollution: moderate   Transparency: fair   Seeing: fair
Time: Fri Sep 3 00:45:00 2021 UT   Obs. no.: 2292

This evening, my brother Anthony & I observed many objects in Sagittarius with our 5" MAK. M22 was the best globular we viewed with a lot of speckling. We were able to see several other globular clusters too. We also viewed M8 & M17 & the nebulosity of both were very impressive. Four open clusters, M21, M23, M24 & M25 were the best of the open clusters we viewed. We also viewed the galaxy M31 with our scope & my 10X50 binoculars. In the telescope, we were able to see just the bright central core of the galaxy but with the binoculars, we were also able to see the wings of the M31. We put a filter on the eyepiece & we were able to see a section of the North America Nebula. That was really nice. Finally, we closed out the evening by watching the ISS go by.

Sun (Sun, est. to be in Sagittarius)
Observer: Michael Amato (e-mail: abigmick@aol.com)
Instrument: 62-mm other   Location: West Haven, Connecticut, United States
Transparency: fair   Seeing: fair
Time: Sun Nov 29 16:45:00 2020 UT   Obs. no.: 2220

Late this morning, I observed two sunspots with my solar telescope. Sunspot #AR2785 is still huge while nearby, sunspot#AR2784 is about half the size. The facula around the large spot was really nice to look at. Also, two nights ago, I studied Tycho Crater on the moon's south pole. The crater rays were really obvious. Looking at Tycho just before full moon makes a big difference on how much you can see.

Moon (Moon, est. to be in Sagittarius)
Observer: Michael Amato (e-mail: abigmick@aol.com)
Instrument: 5.1-inch equatorial reflector   Location: West Haven, Connecticut, United States
Light pollution: moderate   Transparency: fair   Seeing: fair
Time: Sun Sep 27 01:00:00 2020 UT   Obs. no.: 2196

Since Saturday Night was Moon Observing Night, I decided to do just that. Since there was a filmy haze in the sky, I didn't need a moon filter to observe. The lower part of the terminator had some impressively large craters. Other parts of the terminator had smaller but equally impressive craters. I also viewed the Appeninies Mountain Range & some nice crater rays on the face of the moon. It was a great night.

Jupiter (Planet, est. mag -2.5, est. to be in Sagittarius)
Observer: Michael Amato (e-mail: abigmick@aol.com)
Instrument: 8-inch Schmidt-Cassegrain reflector   Location: West Haven, Connecticut, United States
Light pollution: moderate   Transparency: fair   Seeing: fair
Time: Mon Aug 31 02:00:00 2020 UT   Obs. no.: 2189

This evening, My brother Anthony, my friend Joe & I observed Jupiter & Saturn with Joe's 8" scope. In addition to seeing Jupiter's belts, we also viewed the polar hood on Jupiter. It was very obvious. All four moons were out also. We observed Saturn's rings & three of Saturn's moons. We then looked at the moon & the terminator of the gibbous moon was full a craters. It was a great night of viewing.

Jupiter (Planet, est. mag -2.5, est. to be in Sagittarius)
Observer: Michael Amato (e-mail: abigmick@aol.com)
Instrument: 8-inch Schmidt-Cassegrain reflector   Location: West Haven, Connecticut, United States
Light pollution: moderate   Transparency: fair   Seeing: fair
Time: Mon Aug 31 02:00:00 2020 UT   Obs. no.: 2188

This evening, My brother Anthony, my friend Joe & I observed Jupiter & Saturn with Joe's 8" scope. In addition to seeing Jupiter's belts, we also viewed the polar hood on Jupiter. It was very obvious. All four moons were out also. We observed Saturn's rings & three of Saturn's moons. We then looked at the moon & the terminator of the gibbous moon was full a craters. It was a great night of viewing.

M8 (Lagoon Nebula) (Bright Nebula, in Sagittarius)
Observer: Michael Amato (e-mail: abigmick@aol.com)
Instrument: 5.1-inch equatorial reflector   Location: West Haven, Connecticut, United States
Light pollution: moderate   Transparency: fair   Seeing: fair
Time: Mon Aug 24 14:30:00 2020 UT   Obs. no.: 2187

This evening, I observed the nebula M8. Part of M8 is a small cluster of stars & the other part is the nebula itself. I also observed Jupiter's belts & four moons & Saturn's rings. Another nice night of viewing.

M20 (Trifid Nebula) (Bright Nebula, in Sagittarius)
Observer: Michael Amato (e-mail: abigmick@aol.com)
Instrument: 5.1-inch equatorial reflector   Location: West Haven, Connecticut, United States
Light pollution: moderate   Transparency: fair   Seeing: fair
Time: Thu Aug 20 14:00:00 2020 UT   Obs. no.: 2186

This evening, I observed both The Trifid Nebula & M21 open cluster. while M21 showed very well, M20, The Trifid Nebula was very faint for me but I was able to spot it. It was a nice observation for me.

Jupiter (Planet, est. mag -2.5, est. to be in Sagittarius)
Observer: Michael Amato (e-mail: abigmick@aol.com)
Instrument: 5.1-inch equatorial reflector   Location: West Haven, Connecticut, United States
Light pollution: moderate   Transparency: fair   Seeing: fair
Time: Thu Jul 30 01:00:00 2020 UT   Obs. no.: 2182

This evening, my brother Anthony & I observed the Moon, Jupiter & Saturn with my 5.1" short tube reflector. All four of Jupiter's moons were out with three on one side. Jupiter's two main belts showed very well in the scope. Since Saturn was so low, I did see the rings of Saturn but they were blurry. I also viewed Saturn's moon Titan. The Moon's craters & crater rays were really outstanding. It was a very enjoyable evening of observing.

M21 (Open Cluster, in Sagittarius)
Observer: Michael Amato (e-mail: abigmick@aol.com)
Instrument: 5.1-inch equatorial reflector   Location: West Haven, Connecticut, United States
Light pollution: moderate   Transparency: fair   Seeing: fair
Time: Tue Jul 28 05:00:00 2020 UT   Obs. no.: 2180

Early this morning, I put my telescope on the open cluster M21. There were a few bright stars embedded in the cluster & it was impressive to look at. I also observed a nice double star which I cannot identify. Finally, I also observed Saturn with its rings. After sunup, I observed sunspot AR 2767 which has now passed the center of the Sun's face with my solar scope.

Jupiter (Planet, est. mag -2.5, est. to be in Sagittarius)
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 Jul 6 05:20:00 2020 UT   Obs. no.: 2168

I woke up early this morning & took a quick look at the close encounter between Jupiter & the moon. They were only about three degrees apart & it was quite a site! I couldn't see Saturn because it was still behind the trees.

Jupiter (Planet, est. mag -2.5, est. to be in Sagittarius)
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 Jul 6 05:20:00 2020 UT   Obs. no.: 2167

I woke up early this morning & took a quick look at the close encounter between Jupiter & the moon. They were only about three degrees apart & it was quite a site! I couldn't see Saturn because it was still behind the trees.

Jupiter (Planet, est. mag -2.5, est. to be in Sagittarius)
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 12 07:30:00 2020 UT   Obs. no.: 2152

This morning, before sunrise, I observed the close gathering of the moon, Jupiter & Saturn. The moon & Jupiter were in conjunction with Jupiter a couple of degrees above & left of the moon. Saturn was about three or four degrees to the left of Jupiter. Tomorrow morning, the moon & Saturn will be in conjunction also.

Jupiter (Planet, est. mag -2.5, est. to be in Sagittarius)
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 12 07:30:00 2020 UT   Obs. no.: 2151

This morning, before sunrise, I observed the close gathering of the moon, Jupiter & Saturn. The moon & Jupiter were in conjunction with Jupiter a couple of degrees above & left of the moon. Saturn was about three or four degrees to the left of Jupiter. Tomorrow morning, the moon & Saturn will be in conjunction also.

Jupiter (Planet, est. mag -2.5, est. to be in Sagittarius)
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 12 07:30:00 2020 UT   Obs. no.: 2150

This morning, before sunrise, I observed the close gathering of the moon, Jupiter & Saturn. The moon & Jupiter were in conjunction with Jupiter a couple of degrees above & left of the moon. Saturn was about three or four degrees to the left of Jupiter. Tomorrow morning, the moon & Saturn will be in conjunction also.

Saturn (Planet, est. mag .5, est. to be in Sagittarius)
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 Apr 14 09:00:00 2020 UT   Obs. no.: 2146

Yesterday morning, I observed the moon, Jupiter & Saturn form up together with Mars being left behind to their lower left. I've been enjoying this three planet grouping for a month now & I hope to see some more in the early morning hours.

Saturn (Planet, est. mag .2, est. to be in Sagittarius)
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 12 03:00:00 2019 UT   Obs. no.: 2117

This evening I enjoyed the close encounter between Saturn & the moon. They were about three degrees apart.

M8 (Lagoon Nebula) (Bright Nebula, in Sagittarius)
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 Jul 31 02:15:00 2019 UT   Obs. no.: 2115

This evening, while scanning the skies with my binoculars, I landed on both M8 & M21. I was able to see the nebula & group of stars easily on M8 & I was able to see the star cluster of M21. It was a nice night to view.

M8 (Lagoon Nebula) (Bright Nebula, in Sagittarius)
Observer: Michael Amato (e-mail: abigmick@aol.com)
Instrument: 127-mm other   Location: West Haven, Connecticut, United States
Light pollution: moderate   Transparency: good   Seeing: good
Time: Mon Jul 17 01:30:00 2017 UT   Obs. no.: 2014

Last evening, my brother Anthony & I had the pleasure of viewing the northern lights which resulted from a CME that was ejected by the sunspot AR2665 that I talked about in a previous post. There was both reds & greens from thee aurora with the green blanketing the sky with red streaks coming & going. After the aurora died down we started to observe objects with our computerized telescope. The top objects we viewed were M13, M8, M17, Ms 5,6,7 among others. We also observed Saturn & its moons. We ended the evening by observing the Southern Crown, which was below Sagittarius which contrasted nicely with the Northern Crown. It was a great night to view!!!

M17 (Omega Nebula) (Bright Nebula, in Sagittarius)
Observer: Michael Amato (e-mail: abigmick@aol.com)
Instrument: 50-mm binoculars   Location: Milford, Connecticut, United States
Light pollution: moderate   Transparency: fair   Seeing: fair
Time: Sat Jun 20 02:30:00 2009 UT   Obs. no.: 1825

On Friday evening my friends Steve Borer, Rob Masud and Suzanne Manning viewed some objects in the southern sky with my 10X50 binoculars. In Scorpius We observed the globular cluster M4 and the open cluster M7. M7 is quite an impressive open cluster in binoculars with individual stars easily seen. In Sagittarius we observed the open cluster M21, the globular cluster M22 and nebulas M8 and M17. By far M8 was the most impressive of the group with an open cluster on one side and the nebula next to it. M17 was also impressive and I thought it looked like a swan in my binoculars. We also took a peak at Saturn through Rob's 4.5" Dob. Saturn's rings are almost edge on but not quite. All in all a great evening of casual observing.

Venus (Planet, est. mag -4.4, est. to be in Sagittarius)
Observer: Michael Amato (e-mail: abigmick@aol.com)
Instrument: 10-inch refractor   Location: New Haven, Connecticut, United States
Light pollution: moderate   Transparency: fair   Seeing: fair
Time: Sun Jan 18 00:45:00 2009 UT   Obs. no.: 1812

This evening my friend Steve Borer and I went to the Yale observatory for some casual viewing. We observed the Orion Nebula with the 12" reflector and we observed Venus with the 10" refractor. Venus is now a beautiful waning crescent. I wasn't able to see any albedo features in Venus' cloud deck. On Feb. 27th the crescent moon will lie 1.5 degrees from the crescent Venus. Don't miss it.

Venus (Planet, est. mag -4.2, est. to be in Sagittarius)
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 Dec 1 22:15:00 2008 UT   Obs. no.: 1806

This evening my brother Anthony and I observed the grand conjunction in the western sky featuring Venus, Jupiter and the crescent moon. Venus was on the bottom with Jupiter to its upper right and the crescent moon was to the upper left of Venus. The big bright triangle was wonderful sight. As an added bonus a star was just below Venus thus completing the nice picture. My brother and I took pictures of this conjunction and hopefully spaceweather.com will show them.

Venus (Planet, est. mag -4, est. to be in Sagittarius)
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 Nov 17 23:15:00 2008 UT   Obs. no.: 1804

This evening my friends Steve Borer, Joe Cseh and I observed a 2.8 magnitude star in Sagittarius and the planet Venus in conjuction. The star and planet were only one tenth of a degree apart and 10X50 binoculars were needed to seperate them. The star was located directly above Venus. We all agreed it was quite a sight.

Moon (Moon, est. mag -6, est. to be in Sagittarius)
Observer: Michael Amato (e-mail: abigmick@aol.com)
Instrument: 127-mm other   Location: West Haven, Connecticut, United States
Light pollution: light   Transparency: fair   Seeing: good
Time: Mon Oct 6 23:00:00 2008 UT   Obs. no.: 1801

This evening my brother Anthony and I observed the famous X that appears on the terminator of the moon one day before first Quarter. Anyone can see the X on the moon with even low power on your scope. Just be sure to observe the moon on the terminator one day before first quarter.

Jupiter (Planet, est. mag -2.7, est. to be in Sagittarius)
Observer: Michael Amato (e-mail: abigmick@aol.com)
Instrument: 127-mm other   Location: West Haven, Connecticut, United States
Light pollution: moderate   Transparency: fair   Seeing: fair
Time: Tue Jul 22 03:30:00 2008 UT   Obs. no.: 1795

Last evening I observed Jupiter with my 127mm MAK. I was able to observe the red spot for the first time this year. Sizewise, it looks larger than last year and I wonder if it's the result of its merger between it and the two other smaller red spots. The GRS also had a slight tannish tinge to it. I also looked at Jupiter's largest moon Gamymede. Its disc is quite orangy looking and I think on a night of great seeing I will try to see some albedo features on Gamymede. Last night seeing precluded me from attemting to see albedo features.

Jupiter (Planet, est. mag -2.4, est. to be in Sagittarius)
Observer: Michael Amato (e-mail: abigmick@aol.com)
Instrument: 6-inch Dobsonian reflector   Location: West Haven, Connecticut, United States
Light pollution: moderate   Transparency: fair   Seeing: fair
Time: Sun Jul 13 01:45:00 2008 UT   Obs. no.: 1794

Last night my friend Steve Borer and I turned his scope on Jupiter while it was low in the sky. Jupiter's moons were two seperate close binaries on one side of the moon. Two of the moons were close to the planet and the other two were farther away from Jupiter. This was my first view of Jupiter's four moons forming two pairs of close binaries on one side of the planet. You never know what to expect when you point your telescope at Jupiter.

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