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M27 (Dumbell Nebula) (Planetary Nebula, in Vulpecula)
Observer: Michael Amato (e-mail: abigmick@aol.com)
Instrument: 17.5-inch Dobsonian reflector Location: West Haven, Connecticut, United States
Light pollution: none Transparency: excellent Seeing: excellent
Time: Mon Aug 12 02:00:00 2002 UT Obs. no.: 667
While at the northwest hills of Connecticut to view the Perseid shower, we set up our 17.5" dob. to do some deep sky observing of M27, the dumbell nebula. At very high power, its shape didn't resemble a dumbell at all. Instead, it was sort of oval shaped. It also had thin dark possible dust lanes in it.There were many faint stars that seemed to be embedded in it. We also observered the Saturn nebula which looked Quite blue in color.
M57 (Ring Nebula) (Planetary Nebula, in Lyra, Est. RaDec 18h52m +33)
Observer: Thomas Godfrey (e-mail: choccy_bourbon@hotmail.com)
Instrument: 18-inch Dobsonian reflector Location: Norwich, Norfolk, England
Light pollution: light Transparency: good Seeing: excellent
Time: Sun Sep 16 23:05:00 2001 UT Obs. no.: 569
With a magnification of x200 the Ring was very bright and obvious. The ends of the long axis were fainter than the rest of the perimeter and the central hole was not completely black. The central star was visible and it was the first time i had ever seen it!
NGC6826 (Planetary Nebula, in Cygnus)
Observer: Thomas Godfrey (e-mail: choccy_bourbon@hotmail.com)
Instrument: 4.5-inch equatorial reflector Location: Norwich, Norfolk, England
Light pollution: moderate Transparency: good Seeing: fair
Time: Thu Jun 7 01:25:00 2001 UT Obs. no.: 579
The Blinking planetary certainly lived up to it's name as the nebulosity that surrounds the bright central star appeared to blink on and off as i looked away from the object. With an OIII the star is dimmed and the nebulosity brightened so that the effect is no longer evident. The effect is also more difficult to observe in larger telescopes.
NGC7293 (Planetary Nebula, in Aquarius, Est. RaDec 22h29m -21)
Observer: Thomas Godfrey (e-mail: choccy_bourbon@hotmail.com)
Instrument: 50-mm binoculars Location: Norwich, Norfolk, England
Light pollution: moderate Transparency: good Seeing: poor
Time: Thu Oct 19 21:00:00 2000 UT Obs. no.: 581
Very low from my UK location but on a good night it can be seen as a large disc of uniform brightness with my binoculars.
NGC6894 (Planetary Nebula, in Cygnus, Est. RaDec 20h16.4m, +30d34')
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: Thu Sep 28 02:45:00 2000 UT Obs. no.: 538
Using an Orion UltraBlock narrowband nebula(r) filter I was able to observe this faint annular planetary nebula at 118 and 202x. NGC 6894 appeared as a dim but obvious ring at 202x. It is about 42" in size and has an extremely dim central star of magnitude 17.6, which was far beyond the capabilities of the site and telescope. There is an image of NGC 6894 in second volume of the NSOG.
M57 (Ring Nebula) (Planetary Nebula, in Lyra, Est. RaDec 18h 54' 33d 01')
Observer: Robin Yost (e-mail: robin.yost@att.net)
Instrument: 8-inch Schmidt-Cassegrain reflector Location: canto , north carolina, usa
Light pollution: none Transparency: good Seeing: good
Time: Sun Jul 2 06:10:00 2000 UT Obs. no.: 533
This was a first observation with my new celestron 8" Next Star . Useing a 40mm Plossl aprox 50x .It showed no color of course but the ring was perfectly circular with occasional tiny hole in the center.Solid looking and no problemswith turbulence much. Useing barlow image was just about as sharp and well defined occasionally the center star would make a quick and distinct flash.The optics in this scope were somewhat better than I had anticipated.
NGC2022 (Planetary Nebula, in Orion)
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: excellent Seeing: fair
Time: Sun Dec 5 07:00:00 1999 UT Obs. no.: 501
For comparison purposes, I tried locating this 12th mag. planetary (after having a tough time with NGC 1535 in Eridanus). Since I was able to use my Northern Hemisphere Uranometria, this was a much easier, quicker star hop, even though this planetary was much fainter. Never underestimate the value of a good chart when you're trying to find your way around. :-)
NGC1535 (Planetary Nebula, in Eridanus)
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: excellent Seeing: fair
Time: Sun Dec 5 06:20:00 1999 UT Obs. no.: 500
After a fruitless attempt to star hop to this bright planetary by working my way south, I switched to an eastbound approach, and found it fairly quickly. As I've noticed in the past with other planetaries, it wasn't seeing it that was the challenge, but detecting its non-stellar nature at the low power I use for star-hopping. Also making things tough was that it is in a fairly star-poor region of the sky, at least for the Tirion atlas I need to use south of Dec. -6 (the limit of the single Uranometria volume I own). Anyway, once I found it it was easy at higher power: a big, fuzzy ball.
NGC1514 (Planetary Nebula, in Taurus, Est. RaDec 04h09.2m, +30d47')
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: Wed Nov 10 05:25:00 1999 UT Obs. no.: 490
NGC 1514 is a large, type 3+2 planetary nebula which spans 120"x90" and shines at magnitude 10.9p. It has an unusually bright central star of magnitude 9.4 and is located between two ninth magnitude field stars, the southern one being noticeably red in color. The nebulosity was subtle and is described in _The Night Sky Observer's Guide_ as having a dumbbell shape similar to M27 but to me it appeared roughly annular. Said nebulosity was visible with averted vision at 118, 144, and 202x without a nebula filter but I felt the best view was at 118x using an Orion UltraBlock filter. The view was too dark with a Lumicon O-III filter at 202x and unfiltered at 259x.
NGC7026 (Planetary Nebula, in Cygnus, Est. RaDec 21h06m19s, +47d51'08")
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: Sat Oct 30 02:40:00 1999 UT Obs. no.: 487
NGC 7026 (PK89+0.1) is a 10.8 magnitude bipolar planetary nebula located near Deneb. This 28" x 13" sized object bears the nickname of the Cheeseburger Nebula. Earlier in the evening fellow ASH member Chris Fenn captured NGC 7026 with his 10" f/10 Meade LX 50 as part of his continuing program of observing planetary nebulae. After trying in vain to see SN 1999el in NGC 6951 I slewed the 17" f/15 classical Cassegrain to NGC 7026. NGC 7026 appeared as being somewhat rectangular in shape and was quite nice at all the magnifications that I employed (118, 202, and 259x). To the immediate northeast lies an 11th magnitude field star. An Orion UltraBlock nebula(r) filter enhanced the nebula slightly but I felt that an unfiltered 202x produced the most esthetic view.
NGC40 (Planetary Nebula, in Cepheus, Est. RaDec 00h13.0m, +72d32')
Observer: Dave Mitsky (e-mail: djm28@psu.edu, web: http://www.ezonline.com/ash/obs.htm)
Instrument: 20-inch equatorial reflector Location: Harrisburg, PA, USA
Light pollution: light Transparency: good Seeing: fair
Time: Wed Oct 13 01:10:00 1999 UT Obs. no.: 485
I spent some time on Wednesday night observing with a 20" f/10 classical Cassegrain, a 28mm orthoscopic eyepiece, and a Rainbow Optics StarSpectroscope diffraction grating. My friends and I viewed the spectrum of the Wolf-Rayet central star of the tenth magnitude Herschel 400 planetary nebula NGC 40. Ionized carbon produced a bright emission line in the star's spectrum. A bit later we looked at the many dark absorption lines in the spectrum of the variable star Mira. Mira, a type M supergiant, was dimly visible to the unaided eye.Also observed were the crescent moon, M57 and possibly the nearby 15th magnitude galaxy IC 1296, M8, NGC 40, a fading Comet Lee, Jupiter, and the 11th magnitude galaxy NGC 7448. We used a 40mm Orion UltraScan (127x), a 25mm University Optics MK-70 (203x), and a 16.8mm Orion MegaVista (302x) during the course of the evening, which turned out to be one of those where more talking was done than observing.A shadow transit by Io was underway. As my friends and I watched we employed a 7" aperture mask as the seeing was marginal. Io transited the CM around 02:00 UT and the GRS was near Jupiter's trailing limb about that time.
NGC6210 (Planetary Nebula, in Hercules)
Observer: Navid Voghoofi (e-mail: dshahabi@cs.com)
Instrument: 3.5-inch other Location: Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A
Light pollution: moderate Transparency: excellent Seeing: excellent
Time: Sat Aug 14 07:05:00 1999 UT Obs. no.: 470
This planetary was a bit hard to spot at first. But after about 30 seconds of viewing I became confident that it was there. I used an ORION "broadband" nebula filter.
NGC7662 (Planetary Nebula, in Andromeda)
Observer: Navid Voghoofi (e-mail: dshahabi@cs.com)
Instrument: 3.5-inch other Location: Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A
Light pollution: moderate Transparency: excellent Seeing: excellent
Time: Sat Aug 14 07:05:00 1999 UT Obs. no.: 469
This planetary nebula is really bright.It is blue in color. Spotting it is a piece of cake.
M57 (Ring Nebula) (Planetary Nebula, in Lyra)
Observer: Sean Wilkins (e-mail: spw7000@usa.com)
Instrument: 4.5-inch equatorial reflector Location: Elyria, Ohio, USA
Light pollution: moderate Transparency: good Seeing: excellent
Time: Sat Jun 19 21:43:24 1999 UT Obs. no.: 494
I was out last night and looked at Lyra.I thought M57!It was almost Reddish-Blue.Could almost accumulate the central star.
NGC6803 (Planetary Nebula, in Aquila, Est. RaDec 19h30.6m,+10d03')
Observer: Dave Mitsky (e-mail: djm28@psu.edu)
Instrument: 51-cm equatorial reflector Location: Harrisburg, PA, USA
Light pollution: light Transparency: excellent Seeing: excellent
Time: Thu Aug 20 05:00:00 1998 UT Obs. no.: 380
NGC 6803 is a very small planetary nebula (3') in Aquila. We observed this object at 127 (25mm University Optics MK-70) and 302x (16.8mm Orion MegaVista). Using high power and an O-III filter to cause the nebula to "blink" aided in its identification.
M27 (Dumbell Nebula) (Planetary Nebula, in Vulpecula)
Observer: Mark Stutzman (e-mail: mark@cca.ci.coatesville.pa.us)
Instrument: 4 1/2-inch equatorial reflector Location: Gilbertsville, PA, usa
Light pollution: light Transparency: good Seeing: good
Time: Sat Jun 20 02:30:00 1998 UT Obs. no.: 347
I was able to view the dumbell nebula this evening. even though it was just a small fuzzy in my scope I was glad to have found it. also this evening M57 was very observable to me even at higher power
M57 (Ring Nebula) (Planetary Nebula, in Lyra)
Observer: Mark Stutzman (e-mail: mark@cca.ci.coatesville.pa.us)
Instrument: 4 1/2-inch equatorial reflector Location: Gilbertsville, Pa, usa
Light pollution: moderate Transparency: fair Seeing: fair
Time: Tue Jun 9 01:53:00 1998 UT Obs. no.: 340
Even though there was a fairly bright moon and some light clouds drifting by continuously. I was surprised to be able to show a friend the ring nebula. From my modest scope at low power it looks like a smoke ring about the size of a pin head. efforts to increase power failed.
M97 (Owl Nebula) (Planetary Nebula, in Ursa Major)
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: Wed Dec 31 06:15:00 1997 UT Obs. no.: 290
A large, pale, ghostly circle, easily detected with averted vision at 38x. No "eyes" seen in the quick look I had before clouds moved over it.
NGC7094 (Planetary Nebula, in Pegasus, Est. RaDec 21h37m, +12d47')
Observer: Dave Mitsky (e-mail: djm28@psu.edu)
Instrument: 51-cm equatorial reflector Location: Harrisburg, PA, USA
Light pollution: light Transparency: good Seeing: fair
Time: Wed Dec 3 02:05:00 1997 UT Obs. no.: 261
My eagle-eyed friend Bob Hoover located the November 1997 Astronomy Observer's Challenge object, NGC 7094. This 95" planetary nebula lies 1.5 degrees to the northeast of M15. Using a Tele Vue 32mm Wide Field eyepiece (159x) equipped with an Orion Ultrablock filter and then a Lumicon O-III filter allowed us to see (barely) this very dim stellar remnant.
M27 (Dumbell Nebula) (Planetary Nebula, in Vulpecula)
Observer: Joe Muse (e-mail: jmuse@bigfoot.com, web: http://www.geocities.com/capecanaveral/3185)
Instrument: 16-inch Dobsonian reflector Location: Roswell, NM, USA
Light pollution: none Transparency: excellent Seeing: excellent
Time: Wed Oct 29 14:00:00 1997 UT Obs. no.: 243
Great
M57 (Ring Nebula) (Planetary Nebula, in Lyra)
Observer: Joe Muse (e-mail: jmuse@bigfoot.com, web: http://www.geocities.com/capecanaveral/3185)
Instrument: 16-inch Dobsonian reflector Location: Roswell, NM, USA
Light pollution: none Transparency: excellent Seeing: excellent
Time: Wed Oct 29 14:00:00 1997 UT Obs. no.: 241
Great
M57 (Ring Nebula) (Planetary Nebula, in Lyra)
Observer: Geoff Burch (e-mail: gdburch@prairienet.org, web: http://www.prairienet.org/cuas)
Instrument: 9-inch refractor Location: Champaign, IL, USA
Light pollution: moderate Transparency: good Seeing: good
Time: Tue Sep 30 14:30:00 1997 UT Obs. no.: 230
At 120x the rings were well defined and some color was visible. We had a group of 10 newcomers to the Bradley University Amateur Astronomy club that were in awe when they got their first look at this incredible planetary.
M57 (Ring Nebula) (Planetary Nebula, in Lyra)
Observer: Dave Mitsky (e-mail: djm28@psu.edu)
Instrument: 80-mm binoculars Location: Harrisburg, Pa, U.S.A.
Light pollution: none Transparency: good Seeing: good
Time: Sat Sep 6 05:10:00 1997 UT Obs. no.: 221
Observing from a farm in rural Perry County, PA I was able to see the Ring Nebula (M57) for the first time with my Celestron 20x80 giant binoculars. It appeared as a very small fuzzy spot within an area mostly devoid of stars.
M57 (Ring Nebula) (Planetary Nebula, in Lyra)
Observer: Thomas Godfrey (e-mail: choccy_bourbon@hotmail.com)
Instrument: 18-inch Dobsonian reflector Location: Norwich, Norfolk, England
Light pollution: light Transparency: good Seeing: good
Time: Mon Sep 1 01:01:01 1997 UT Obs. no.: 594
Sorry but I have not seen this central star as I have stated before. I got it mixed up with M27!!!!!!! I would love to see this difficult star but have never managed it. Many of my friends saw it one night last year.
M27 (Dumbell Nebula) (Planetary Nebula, in Vulpecula)
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: fair Seeing: good
Time: Sat Jul 5 08:05:00 1997 UT Obs. no.: 202
I'd neglected to look at the Dumbbell when I was looking at planetaries in nearby Cygnus the other night, so I thought it would make a good climax for my evening of globular hunting in Scorpius and Ophiuchus. M27 was a big, bright, rectangular fuzzy patch at 49x. Possible greenish tint? The twin lobes of the "dumbbell" shape were detectable with averted vision. Tried 122x and 244x; best view was at 122x. The southern lobe was somewhat smaller and brighter than the northern lobe.
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