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M77 (Galaxy, in Cetus)
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: light Transparency: good Seeing: good
Time: Tue Jan 3 19:30:00 2006 UT Obs. no.: 1464
On this day, for my luck, the power went off in the city and I got to see a country sky right in the heart of the city! But the moon washed away the fainter stars. I aimed for M77 and easily foung it. Its unusually bright centre does show a striking difference between ordinary galaxies and active galaxies. It bore magnification well and at very low magnification, it appeared a sort of planetary nebula with a star right next to it.
M65 (Galaxy, in Leo)
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 Jan 3 04:45:00 2006 UT Obs. no.: 1469
The neighbouring galaxy of M66. Its spiral structure was easily visible but it was a bit dimmer than M66 and was difficult to see. It appeared a bit larger than M66. Both gave a wonderful sight and I was quite surprized to see these two from a light polluted area.
M66 (Galaxy, in Leo)
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 Jan 3 04:45:00 2006 UT Obs. no.: 1468
A bright galaxy in Leo. I could easily spot it as it is next to a bright star. It appeared better and brighter than its neighbour, M65 but appeared some what smaller. I could easily make out the spiral shape of this galaxy.
M104 (Sombrero Galaxy) (Galaxy, in Virgo)
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 Jan 3 03:45:00 2006 UT Obs. no.: 1467
I could see the galaxy without any difficulty but I could not make out its elliptical shape. I could barely see the dark dust lane.
M51 (Whirlpool Galaxy) (Galaxy, in Canes Venatici)
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 Jan 1 04:45:00 2006 UT Obs. no.: 1465
Though a bright galaxy, it was at the limit of visiblity from my light polluted sky. With a faint red sky glow, I just managed to see it through averted vision! I'm sure that the view is going to be far more better in a dark sky where it can show off along with its companion galaxy.
M64 (Black-Eye Galaxy) (Galaxy, in Coma Berenices)
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 03:50:00 2005 UT Obs. no.: 1466
A very easy galaxy from a city. Its elliptical-spiral structure was obvious. But I could not make out the central, dark dust lane. A beautiful and a must see galaxy.
M65 (Galaxy, in Leo)
Observer: Vedran vrhovac (e-mail: vedran_vrhovac@yahoo.com)
Instrument: 8-inch Dobsonian reflector Location: Velika Gorica, Croatia
Light pollution: light Transparency: good Seeing: poor
Time: Thu Dec 8 04:40:00 2005 UT Obs. no.: 1429
This morning I woke up to go to school. When I looked thru window I have noticed that there's no fog or clouds and lots of stars wherevisible. I quickly dressed up and went outside to look thru scope since this was first night without fog and clouds in last two monts. The Leo was high at the south and I decided to hunt M65 and the M66. I have put the 32mm eyepiece (38x) and pointed scope to the Theta Leonis. Just few degrees to the south I saw 3 galaxies in FOV. Since sky was to bright at 38x i used the 15mm wide angle eyepiece (80x) and all 3 galaxies where still in one FOV but with much better contrast.M65 was long oval nebula with no defined center, the M66 was little smaller but more round oval than M65. M66 also had bright center. NGC3628 was big, but much fainter and almost horizontally laid nebula.After amazing Leo triplet i turned scope to the M51. M51 with companion was easily visible. M51 looked like round disk with uneven surface brightnes and bright center. NGC5195 was smaller (about 1/5) and looked like small globular cluster thru 70mm scope. After looking at the M51 I turn scope litlle lower and changed eyepiece back to the 32mm Plossl. When I looked thru the eyepiece and focused I saw M3 inf FOV. "Am I lucky guy ornot?" I thought. Since it was GC i switched to the 6mm Plossl eyepice and looked again at M3. What a superb cluster. Withaverted vision thousand of stars where visible. After this shorth breathtaking sight I finished my observing session becouse it was time to goto the school. I can't waith for March when this object will be visible in the evening.
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.
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.
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.
NGC5557 (Galaxy, in Bootes)
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.: 1357
NGC 5557 is a 12.2 magnitude galaxy in Bootes. It is pretty large, with a bright nucleus.This galaxy shares the same field with NGC 5529, a faint galaxy (magnitude 12.7). NGC 5529 is barely visible at 70x, on the charts it appears very elongated, but seen through the eyepiece it is round and very small.
NGC5533 (Galaxy, in Bootes)
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.: 1356
In the eyepiece NGC 5533 appears very faint, it has a round shape.
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.
M106 (Galaxy, in Canes Venatici)
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.: 1353
M 106 is a bright galaxy in Canes Venatici. It is large and elongated, near the faint nucleus I've seen a 10th magnitude star.
M33 (Pinwheel Galaxy) (Galaxy, in Triangulum)
Observer: Vedran Vrhovac (e-mail: vedran_vrhovac@yahoo.com)
Instrument: 8-inch Dobsonian reflector Location: Velika Gorica, Croatia
Light pollution: light Transparency: excellent Seeing: poor
Time: Fri Sep 30 21:15:00 2005 UT Obs. no.: 1346
This night was excellent for DS observing. Transparency was almost perfect but dew in the air caused poor seeing. I started my classic DS tour - M31 (with companions), M33 and Double Cluster.While observing M31 i found NGC206 - star cloud (similar to M24 in our galaxy. It was faint, moderate in size and stretched in NE-SW direction.M33 was bright this night. Finally i was able to see spiral arms. They looked like letter "S" with bright core in the middle. Double Cluster was amazing. At 38x and 1.4FOV I saw hunderds of stars. That is what makes astronomy wonderful hobby. Sugar at the end! I spoted Helix Nebula in Aquarius. Nebula was moderate in size, faint in the middle and brighter at the edge.
M77 (Galaxy, in Cetus)
Observer: Akarsh Simha (e-mail: akarsh_simha@fastmail.fm)
Instrument: 8-inch equatorial reflector Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Light pollution: moderate Transparency: good Seeing: good
Time: Fri Sep 16 23:30:00 2005 UT Obs. no.: 1327
A nice object, but not even showing a distinct core and surrounding haze at Bangalore. Looks like a pair of hazy stars (One is the galactic core, and the other is a 10.76 mag star: TYC4699-01219-1), one of them being larger (The galactic core) than the other. Best at abt. 100x on a 8" f/8.The program SkyChart v2.7 with the Tycho 2 star catalog helped me trace all my observations more easily in spite of the city's light pollution.
M31 (Andromeda Galaxy) (Galaxy, in Andromeda)
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 07:21:00 2005 UT Obs. no.: 1297
Large!! actually make that enormous! The bright core is a large ball of stars at the center with the oval halo reaching far past either edge of the field even at the lowest power (60x, 1deg), extended northeast-southwest, a dark rift separates a spiral arm along the southeastern edge, M32 and M110 flank the core above and below
M32 (Galaxy, in Andromeda)
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 07:10:00 2005 UT Obs. no.: 1296
Bright! round even halo with no detail, very distinct and bright core, M32 just a hint of glow at the northwest edge of the field
NGC2 (Galaxy, in Pegasus)
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 06:50:00 2005 UT Obs. no.: 1295
Small, very dim!! an averted vision object only despite approaching transit, round, no visible core or structure, just a circular patch, 2' south of NGC1
NGC1 (Galaxy, in Pegasus)
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 06:50:00 2005 UT Obs. no.: 1294
Small, very dim, barely there, in a long isosceles triangle of dim (11-13 mag) stars with NGC2 just 2' to the south, round, even halo with no detail, no distinct core
M31 (Andromeda Galaxy) (Galaxy, in Andromeda)
Observer: Michael Amato (e-mail: abigmick@aol.com)
Instrument: 17.5-inch Dobsonian reflector Location: Colbrook, Connecticut, United States
Light pollution: none Transparency: excellent Seeing: excellent
Time: Sun Aug 28 02:30:00 2005 UT Obs. no.: 1288
My friends Steve Borer, Mike Dzubaty and I spent the weekend camping in the northwest hills of Connecticut. On Saturday evening, we set up Mike's 17.5" dob for some observing before the expected cloud cover arrived. For Galaxies, we started off observing M31. In the jet black skies of the northwest hills, M31 showed more than just its core. The spiral effect was very obvious. One of its satellite galaxies M110, also looks like a smaller version of a spiral galaxy even though it is not considered to be a spiral. M32 is a brighter yet smaller satellite galaxy. As the clouds rushed in, I had time to observe M33 with my binoculars. The face on galaxy filled almost half my field of view. Earlier in the evening, we started to observe globular clusters. M4 looks almost like an open cluster. There seems to be a line of stars that runs in the middle of it. M22 is very impressive with a lot of individual stars seen. M13 is a little more impressive, also with a lot of individual stars seen. For some reason, in binoculars, M22 is much more impressive than M13. For that matter, even M4 is a better binocular object than M13. I don't understand why this is. For open clusters, M6,7,21,& 24 are outstanding, whether in the telescope or binoculars. M8, the Lagoon nebula, shows a cluster of stars on one side and nebulosity on the other side. It is also a great binocular item. The nebulosity in M 20, the Trifid nebula, showed its classic dust lanes within the nebula. Finally M17, the Omega nebula, could be seen amidst a cluster of stars. Finally, the milky way itself was beautiful. The great rift was very obvious. Scanning the milky way with my binoculars netted me M11 and the coathanger star cluster.
M74 (Galaxy, in Pisces)
Observer: Vedran vrhovac (e-mail: vedran_vrhovac@yahoo.com)
Instrument: 8-inch Dobsonian reflector Location: Velika Gorica, Croatia
Light pollution: light Transparency: excellent Seeing: good
Time: Wed Aug 10 02:00:00 2005 UT Obs. no.: 1282
Large and dim galaxy. Galaxy apeared to me like round nebula about 8 - 10' in size.
M94 (Galaxy, in Canes Venatici)
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 Jun 10 16:15:00 2005 UT Obs. no.: 1318
I'm doubtful if I've got the right thing, but I'm quite confident that I have. It was astonishingly bright (!!!) roundish object (like a globular). Comparison with the neighbouring star showed vividly that the object was not a point object, which was confirmed clearly at 170x magnification. This is definitely much brighter than what I had expected of an ordinary galaxy. Central brightness and surrounding haze was evident at 170x magnification on a 8" f/8 scope.
M49 (Galaxy, in Virgo)
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 Jun 10 16:00:00 2005 UT Obs. no.: 1317
I am slightly doubtful if I've seen the right thing, but it is apparent that I have indeed. Only the small central brightness was clearly visible. Averted vision was required. It was in a field practically devoid of stars.
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