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M101 (Pinwheel Galaxy) (Galaxy, in Ursa Major)
Observer: Michael Amato (e-mail: abigmick@aol.com)
Instrument: 62-mm other Location: West Haven, Connecticut, United States
Transparency: fair Seeing: fair
Time: Sat Sep 11 00:30:00 2021 UT Obs. no.: 2294
On Friday evening, my brother Anthony & I observed ten galaxies & many more other objects. We observed Galaxies M31, M32, M51 & its companion, M81, M82 & M101 & also some NGC galaxies. The galaxies showed decently despite some smoke from the western wild fires. We also observed a slew of NGC & IC open clusters & some objects with nebula. It was quite a night of viewing.
Satellite (Satellite, est. mag -3, est. to be in Ursa Major)
Observer: Mark D. Schneider (e-mail: markd_s@yahoo.com)
Instrument: naked eye Location: Orange, California, United States of America
Light pollution: light Transparency: fair Seeing: fair
Time: Mon Apr 5 03:20:00 2021 UT Obs. no.: 2241
Easter pass of the ISS from NW to E
M40 (Multiple Star, in Ursa Major)
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: Mon Mar 8 00:00:00 2021 UT Obs. no.: 2235
Last evening, my brother Anthony & I observed several objects with our 5" computerized MAK. We were able to observe about six galaxies including M51. We were able to see its spiral affect coming out of its core. We also observed two planetary neubulas which looked blue. The two red stars, Hind's Crimson Star & The Garnet Star looked stunningly red. The grand finally was we were able to split Sirius & Sirius B. Right now, both stars are at their farthest separation so now is the time to look at this double.
Other (Other, est. mag 7.6, est. to be in Ursa Major)
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: Thu May 14 01:30:00 2020 UT Obs. no.: 2154
Last evening, I observed an ordinary yellow white star very close to Mizar & Alcor. The star, HD 116798, was seen in 1722 by a part time astronomer named Johann Georg Liebknecht who thought the star was a planet. He even named the "planet" Sidus Ludoviciana. Imagine his surprise when he was told it was just a star.
Satellite (Satellite, est. mag -3, est. to be in Ursa Major)
Observer: Mark D. Schneider (e-mail: markd_s@yahoo.com)
Instrument: naked eye Location: Orange, California, United States of America
Light pollution: light Transparency: fair Seeing: fair
Time: Wed Jul 17 05:45:30 2019 UT Obs. no.: 2113
1st recorded observation of the ISS over Strada in Orange and it became visible in the Northwest going higher toward the North and then into the fog toward the Northeast.
M82 (Galaxy, in Ursa Major)
Observer: Joe Muse (e-mail: jjharp@yahoo.com)
Instrument: 8-inch Dobsonian reflector Location: Roswell, New Mexico, USA
Light pollution: severe Transparency: fair Seeing: poor
Time: Sat Jan 20 15:00:00 2018 UT Obs. no.: 2041
Bortle Class 3 with moving clouds, but the evening was still enjoyable with fellow observers. Saw several objects through other scopes but did bring in M81 and M82 with the wife's 8" Orion Deep Space Explorer. .
M81 (Galaxy, in Ursa Major)
Observer: Joe Muse (e-mail: jjharp@yahoo.com)
Instrument: 8-inch Dobsonian reflector Location: Roswell, New Mexico, USA
Light pollution: severe Transparency: fair Seeing: poor
Time: Sat Jan 20 15:00:00 2018 UT Obs. no.: 2040
Bortle Class 3 with moving clouds, but the evening was still enjoyable with fellow observers. Saw several objects through other scopes but did bring in M81 and M82 with the wife's 8" Orion Deep Space Explorer. .
M81 (Galaxy, in Ursa Major)
Observer: Alex Mataringa (e-mail: melhonar@gmail.com)
Instrument: 102-mm refractor Location: Prilipeti, Banat, Romania
Light pollution: none Transparency: good Seeing: good
Time: Wed Aug 24 20:10:00 2011 UT Obs. no.: 1874
M81 galaxy in Ursa Major, oval shape,faint,25 mm eyepiece, in the same field of vue withM82 galaxy.
M82 (Galaxy, in Ursa Major)
Observer: Joe Caggiano (e-mail: jcaggiano@mindspring.com, web: http://www.joecaggiano.com)
Instrument: 10-inch Dobsonian reflector Location: Glenside, Pa, USA
Light pollution: light Transparency: excellent Seeing: excellent
Time: Tue Feb 17 01:00:00 2009 UT Obs. no.: 1813
Spotted M82 as a faint streak through my 10" at 40x. M81 shared the FOV with it. Easily saw structure of M82 and a dark diagonal rift between the 2 lobes. M82 showed more detail than M81. Detail showed up rather well on time exposure using a camera. I have posted pics on my website.
M81 (Galaxy, in Ursa Major)
Observer: Joe Caggiano (e-mail: jcaggiano@mindspring.com, web: http://home.mindspring.com/~jcaggiano/)
Instrument: 70-mm binoculars Location: Promised Land State Park, Pa, USA
Light pollution: none Transparency: excellent Seeing: excellent
Time: Sun Apr 22 06:00:00 2007 UT Obs. no.: 1642
An excellent night of galaxy hunting continued with M81 and M82 in Ursa major. Spiral detail was easily seen in M81. Both were easily visible and M81 was quite large with both direct and averted vision. These 2 closely locked galaxies are 11 million LY distant from us.
M81 (Galaxy, in Ursa Major)
Observer: Joe Caggiano (e-mail: jcaggiano@mindspring.com, web: http://home.mindspring.com/~jcaggiano/)
Instrument: 70-mm binoculars Location: Glenside, Pa, USA
Light pollution: moderate Transparency: good Seeing: fair
Time: Sat Jan 21 07:30:00 2006 UT Obs. no.: 1472
Viewed M81 & M82 early Saturday morning. Not too much detail was visible through the binos but at least they are visible from my back yard. There was also high level wisps of clouds.
M81 (Galaxy, in Ursa Major)
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: Wed Nov 30 05:10:00 2005 UT Obs. no.: 1452
Just casually moved through the field and found it. Not an exciting object from a light polluted area. Infact galaxies don't show up well in light polluted areas. But still it was appreciable.
M40 (Multiple Star, in Ursa Major)
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 Nov 14 04:45:00 2005 UT Obs. no.: 1453
This is the messier object which everyone neglects to see (even myself). I just made up my mind to update my messier observations and saw it and it was worth seeing. A good double star.
M40 (Multiple Star, in Ursa Major)
Observer: Emil Neata (e-mail: forvert2000@yahoo.com, web: http://www.nightskyinfo.com)
Instrument: 4.5-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.: 1363
M 40 is a faint double star in Ursa Major, which found its way into Charles Messier's famous catalog by mistake. It is easily split into components at 36x, both stars are slightly red.
NGC4041 (Galaxy, in Ursa Major)
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.: 1355
NGC 4041 is a bright galaxy in Ursa Major. It is large, round shape, with a bright center.
NGC4036 (Galaxy, in Ursa Major)
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.: 1354
NGC 4036 is a 11.6 magnitude galaxy in Ursa Major. In the eyepiece it appears small and elongated with a very bright nucleus.
Zeta UMa (Mizar) (Multiple Star, in Ursa Major)
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: Sun Apr 17 08:30:00 2005 UT Obs. no.: 1255
The close Mizar doubles appeared much wide apart at some 87.5x magnification. At 41x, there was Alcor and yet another star in the same field of view along with Mizar.
M81 (Galaxy, in Ursa Major)
Observer: Joe Caggiano (e-mail: jcaggiano@mindspring.com)
Instrument: 70-mm binoculars Location: Horsham, Pa., USA
Light pollution: light Transparency: excellent Seeing: excellent
Time: Wed Mar 16 03:30:00 2005 UT Obs. no.: 1185
Finally got out after 3 months of mud and snow converting my backyard into a swamp. The sky was incredibly dark and Ursa Major was almost directly overhead. I used the "y" and "a" stars in the bowl to point my way to M81 and M82. Found them relatively quickly but they were not as bright as I had expected. M81 appeared only about half as large as the Andromeda Galaxy and it was noticeably fainter by at least a magnitude also. M82 was visible not far off. Much smaller than its companion it was still somewhat easy to make out after initially finding M81. To make sure I am able to find it with my 6" scope in the upcoming weeks (when it gets alittle less muddy outside) I deliberately went back inside the house and came out later. Found it all 3 times with little difficulty. I will have to get a much better view if the sky is dark tonight and free of clouds.
M82 (Galaxy, in Ursa Major)
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.: 1166
M 82 - It appears in the same field with M 81. Elongated, very difficult.
M81 (Galaxy, in Ursa Major)
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.: 1165
M 81 - Galaxy in Ursa Major. Small, elongated, brighter towards the center
Comet (Comet, est. mag 6.0, est. to be in Ursa Major)
Observer: Michael Amato (e-mail: abigmick@aol.com)
Instrument: 10-inch Dobsonian reflector Location: Colebrook, Connecticut, United States
Light pollution: none Transparency: excellent Seeing: excellent
Time: Sun Jun 20 02:00:00 2004 UT Obs. no.: 1028
Last night, my friends Mike Dzubaty, Steve Borer and I went on an overnight trip to the very dark skies of the northwest hills of Connecticut. We observed Comet Neat close to the bowl of the Big Dipper. It now looks smaller in size but it is still an easy binocular object. In the 10" dob, the tail of the comet was still fan shaped. The core of the comet was still bright. With the seeing being so great, we then turned our attention to M51. This galaxies spiral shape was very easy to see and great to look at. M81 and M82 were also great. The spiral shape of M81 was also easy to see. The dust lanes of M82 were sharp and clear. M31 filled the whole field of my binoculars despite being low on the horizon. As the night wore on, we turned our view to the southern sky. We had spectacular views of M4, M6, M7, M11, M8, M20, M22, M13, and M24. All of these open and globular clusters and neblae were tremendous in 10X 50 binoculars. The coat hanger was really clear. Fnally on Sunday morning, before we left, we observed the sun through my Sunspotter Solar Telescope. The center of the sun has several groups of large sunspots on it. Hopefully, one of these spots will cause a northrn lights display this week.
M109 (Galaxy, in Ursa Major)
Observer: Giorgos Koronis (e-mail: giorgos.koronis@lies.com)
Instrument: 8-inch Dobsonian reflector Location: Parnon mountain, Greece
Light pollution: none Transparency: excellent Seeing: good
Time: Sat Jun 19 20:40:00 2004 UT Obs. no.: 1020
Bright galaxy in the field of gamma UMa.Easily visible at 45x(20mm plossl).
M81 (Galaxy, in Ursa Major)
Observer: Sidney Strangmann (e-mail: sidney.strangmann@12move.nl, web: http://home.wanadoo.nl/strangmann)
Instrument: 8-inch Dobsonian reflector Location: Laren, Gelderland, The Netherlands
Light pollution: light Transparency: good Seeing: excellent
Time: Sat May 15 22:00:00 2004 UT Obs. no.: 998
Close to the German border i have a view locationfar from the city of Amsterdam whats the location i live.So almost no light pollution, I have seen M81, M82, M97, M108, M109 and M51.M81 and M82 was perfect to see by 50X and all the other objects by 100X.I was using the Baader neodymium moon&skyglowe filter, this filter enhances deepsky objects against the background sky.
M81 (Galaxy, in Ursa Major)
Observer: Paul (e-mail: paul_ohstbucks@msn.com)
Instrument: 12.5-inch Dobsonian reflector Location: Lee's Summit, MO, USA
Light pollution: severe Transparency: good Seeing: poor
Time: Wed Nov 13 01:00:00 2002 UT Obs. no.: 725
M81 was bright and obvious at 59x and was surrounded by a bright haze of its halo. No specific detail was noted in the spiral arms other than the presence of lumunosity. M82 was spectacular!! Wow....I think I even said that at the eyepiece. What a cool looking galaxy, and easily viewed from my lousy back yard. M82 had no bright central core, the whole galaxy was bright!! At 118x, the galaxy filled the entire field of view. The long edge on galaxy streaked through the entire FOV. I see where it gets its nickname "Cigar Galaxy".
M101 (Pinwheel Galaxy) (Galaxy, in Ursa Major)
Observer: Michael Amato (e-mail: abigmick@aol.com)
Instrument: 20-inch Dobsonian reflector Location: West Haven, Connecticut, United States
Light pollution: none Transparency: excellent Seeing: excellent
Time: Sun Mar 17 03:15:00 2002 UT Obs. no.: 626
M101 is a small face on galaxy. In the 20" dob, you cansee its brigt core and you can see the faint surrounding area without seeing any detail.
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