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M69 (Globular Cluster, in Sagittarius)
Observer: Larry Wade (e-mail: lab@capital2.com)
Instrument: 10-inch Dobsonian reflector Location: Belzoni, Mississippi, USA
Light pollution: moderate Transparency: excellent Seeing: fair
Time: Thu Sep 10 02:30:00 1998 UT Obs. no.: 390
Very brite at 47x. no detailed look possible due to clouds movin in.
NGC6624 (Globular Cluster, in Sagittarius)
Observer: Larry Wade (e-mail: lab@capital2.com)
Instrument: 10-inch Dobsonian reflector Location: Belzoni, Mississippi, USA
Light pollution: moderate Transparency: excellent Seeing: fair
Time: Thu Sep 10 02:20:00 1998 UT Obs. no.: 389
Located near Sigma Sgr,which appears orange in color. A rich starfield, though some haze passes by. Much briter than 6528,6522,6558 and 6569 at 47x. No resolution at 134x. Also appears briter in the center than the above objects
NGC6569 (Globular Cluster, in Sagittarius)
Observer: Larry Wade (e-mail: lab@capital2.com)
Instrument: 10-inch Dobsonian reflector Location: Belzoni, Mississippi, USA
Light pollution: moderate Transparency: excellent Seeing: fair
Time: Thu Sep 10 02:15:00 1998 UT Obs. no.: 388
Sort of brite. No resolution at 134x. Thicker in center, hint of sparkle. Located in rich starfield. Brite star in same field
NGC6569 (Globular Cluster, in Sagittarius)
Observer: Larry Wade (e-mail: lab@capital2.com)
Instrument: 10-inch Dobsonian reflector Location: Belzoni, Mississippi, USA
Light pollution: moderate Transparency: excellent Seeing: fair
Time: Thu Sep 10 02:15:00 1998 UT Obs. no.: 387
Sort of brite. No resolution at 134x. Thicker in center, hint of sparkle. Located in rich starfield. Brite star in same field
NGC6558 (Globular Cluster, in Sagittarius)
Observer: Larry Wade (e-mail: lab@capital2.com)
Instrument: 10-inch Dobsonian reflector Location: Belzoni, Mississippi, USA
Light pollution: moderate Transparency: excellent Seeing: fair
Time: Thu Sep 10 02:10:00 1998 UT Obs. no.: 386
Condensed but dim with no resolution at 134x. Appears a little brighter towards the center.Looks like a grey patch floating in a rich starfield
NGC6522 (Globular Cluster, in Sagittarius)
Observer: Larry Wade (e-mail: lab@capital2.com)
Instrument: 10-inch Dobsonian reflector Location: Belzoni, Mississippi, USA
Light pollution: moderate Transparency: excellent Seeing: fair
Time: Thu Sep 10 02:00:00 1998 UT Obs. no.: 385
Seen in same field at 47x as NGC 6528, 6522 is the brighter of the two,both near Gamma Sgr. At 134x 6522 shows no stars but some mottling is seen
NGC6528 (Globular Cluster, in Sagittarius)
Observer: Larry Wade (e-mail: lab@capital2.com)
Instrument: 10-inch Dobsonian reflector Location: Belzoni, Mississippi, USA
Light pollution: moderate Transparency: excellent Seeing: fair
Time: Thu Sep 10 01:45:00 1998 UT Obs. no.: 384
Visible at 47X in same field as Gamma Sgr. Also seen in the same field is NGC 6522, which is the brighter of the two. At 134X, 6528 is a faint fuzzwith no stars or sparkle. Occasional thin cirrus clouds pass by in this view towards the south The sky is pretty transparent tonite. I can seeall four stars in the bowl of the Little Dipper. The dimmest is listed as mag 4.9 on a chart for limiting magnitude that I got from some S&T site off the net. A cold front just passed thru today, this is very clear for my moderately light polluted backyard which usually has mag 3.5 to 4.0 skies. The Milky Way glows brightly tonite.
Other (Other, est. to be in Sagittarius, Est. RaDec 18:19"h/-28.5d)
Observer: Mike Pierce (e-mail: xtozaj@webtv.net)
Instrument: naked eye Location: Marianna, Florida, United States
Light pollution: light Transparency: excellent Seeing: excellent
Time: Tue Aug 18 01:30:00 1998 UT Obs. no.: 378
Observed naked eye asterism (Sagittarius) in it's full glory! It's beginning its downward turn over the horizon to the west. What a beautiful sight. Will miss ituntil next year. The "Milky Way" is obvious and I enjoyed estimating the Galactic Center. Stars are quite bright. After checking my star charts, I learned the names of some of Sagittarius' stars, Nunki, Kaus Borealis, and Kaus Meridionalis. Looking forward to fall naked eye asterisms!
M8 (Lagoon Nebula) (Bright Nebula, in Sagittarius, Est. RaDec 18h.0/-23d)
Observer: Mike Pierce (e-mail: xtozaj@webtv.net)
Instrument: 3-inch refractor Location: Marianna, Florida, United States
Light pollution: light Transparency: excellent Seeing: excellent
Time: Fri Jul 31 01:30:00 1998 UT Obs. no.: 374
Observed nebula clearly with naked eye. Used 10x50 binos and then increased resolution with 3" refractor. Excellent seeing this night. Saw the "Steam from the Teapot" quite clearly. Observed site from unobstructed horizon. Lack of larger primary lens prevented totally clear sighting. Used averted vision. Quite brilliant considering the size scope I have.
M8 (Lagoon Nebula) (Bright Nebula, in Sagittarius)
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: good Seeing: good
Time: Mon Jul 13 03:00:00 1998 UT Obs. no.: 366
What a night! With only a limited amount of time before the moon came up I set out to locate all messier objects in Sagit. while I could. Even with the horizon haze Every object was observeable.In addition to M8 I viewed M16,M17,M24,M21,M22,M28,M69,M70 and M54. The nebula's were not the brightest I've viewed them but they were all visible at 36x. I used a 2x barlow on all objects as well with good results. This is truely a beutifull area of the universe!! After the moon came up I swung around to the northwest and viewed everything in ursa major I could ( M51 etc). all in all It was a wonderfulll couple hours.
M23 (Open Cluster, in Sagittarius, Est. RaDec 18.0h -19d)
Observer: Mike Pierce (e-mail: xtozaj@webtv.net)
Instrument: 3-inch refractor Location: Marianna, Florida, United States
Light pollution: light Transparency: good Seeing: good
Time: Wed Jul 1 02:25:00 1998 UT Obs. no.: 356
Sighted M23 first with 10x50 binos. Appeared to reveal 75 to 100 stars packed rather tightly, though not along the lines of Praesepe (Beehive) Also used 3 inch equatorial refractor to increase resolution. Seeing fell off after 25 minutes. Tracked into smoke or cloud cover.
M17 (Omega Nebula) (Bright Nebula, in Sagittarius)
Observer: Rob Teeter (e-mail: webuser@thecore.com, web: http://www.thecore.com/~webuser/)
Instrument: 8-inch Dobsonian reflector Location: Howell, NJ, USA
Light pollution: moderate Transparency: excellent Seeing: fair
Time: Tue Jun 30 16:35:00 1998 UT Obs. no.: 357
Slewed my scope until the coordinates on my DSCs read all zeros and looked into the eyepiece. At 34x I was greated with a large, flat, bright field with the Swan sitting in the center. The body was easily detected, while the head/neck of the Swan were considerably dimmer. I then placed in my Lumicon Oxygen III filter and the entire background grew to a velvetty-black. The Swan (body, neck and head) stood out and even showed some 'ribs' on it's underside. Lots of outstanding detail for only an 8"! Definately a favorite object!
M28 (Globular Cluster, in Sagittarius)
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.: 244
Great
M69 (Globular Cluster, in Sagittarius, Est. RaDec 18.31.4,-32.21)
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.: 237
Bright and pretty well filled the eyepiece. Used a 40mm eyepiece.
M22 (Globular Cluster, in Sagittarius, Est. RaDec 18h 36m -23deg. 54')
Observer: Greg Mizell (e-mail: gmizell@electro-net.com, web: http://www.electro-net.com/~gmizell/home.html)
Instrument: 6-inch equatorial reflector Location: Tallahassee, FL, USA
Light pollution: moderate Transparency: fair Seeing: excellent
Time: Tue Aug 26 03:15:00 1997 UT Obs. no.: 232
This is a beautiful globular. It rivals M13 in my opinion. I was able to resolve individual stars at 75X despite a fair amount of light pollution. Since this initial observation, I have seen it in darker skies and it really is spectacular.
M17 (Omega Nebula) (Bright Nebula, in Sagittarius)
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: fair
Time: Sun Jun 29 10:30:00 1997 UT Obs. no.: 172
The Omega (Swan) Nebula jumped out at me as I did a quick sweep through the summer Milky Way. It still startles (and pleases) me how my new 8-inch Dobsonian (the biggest telescope I've ever owned), when used in the fairly dark skies around here, allows me to really SEE such objects, and recognize their appearance from photographs, rather than merely detecting them as subliminal fuzzy patches, which was about all I could hope with my binoculars or 2.4-inch refractor from my former light-polluted home in Manhattan Beach. Anyway, the Swan was beautiful! I definitely need to come back to this region soon, and perform a detailed exploration. Perhaps a summer "bug hunt," to go with the winter one I performed back in February.
M8 (Lagoon Nebula) (Bright Nebula, in Sagittarius)
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: fair
Time: Sun Jun 29 10:15:00 1997 UT Obs. no.: 171
With the summer Milky Way arcing high over my head and Sagittarius on the meridian, I couldn't resist a quick sweep at 49x before coming in from my late-night (for me) observing session. The Lagoon Nebula was swept up easily, and was beautiful, of course (along with its associated cluster, NGC 6530).
M17 (Omega Nebula) (Bright Nebula, in Sagittarius, Est. RaDec 18h 21m, -16.11)
Observer: Alan Shaffer (e-mail: milkyway@gte.net, web: http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/3693/)
Instrument: 25-inch Dobsonian reflector Location: Mt. Pinos, California, US
Light pollution: none Transparency: excellent Seeing: excellent
Time: Sat Jun 7 10:00:00 1997 UT Obs. no.: 144
The Swan was my next target at Mt. Pinos. Again, I used the O-III filter and a low power. Throught the 25" and the 10" SCT, it looked as if I were on top of the nebula. Very bright but void of any color. I obsered it for @ 20 min. and picked out a lot of detal. This nebula was picked up in my 50mm exposure of the Sagittarius constelation. Very nice.
M20 (Trifid Nebula) (Bright Nebula, in Sagittarius, Est. RaDec 18h 02m, -23.02)
Observer: Alan Shaffer (e-mail: milkyway@gte.net, web: http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/3693/)
Instrument: 25-inch Dobsonian reflector Location: Mt. Pinos, California, US
Light pollution: none Transparency: excellent Seeing: excellent
Time: Sat Jun 7 10:00:00 1997 UT Obs. no.: 143
Trifed Nebula. An utter beauty. Again, using the O-III filter, this object jumps out. Easily observe the dark dust lanes in the central area of the nebula. Again, this nebula was observable to the naked eye. Could easily split the double star.
M8 (Lagoon Nebula) (Bright Nebula, in Sagittarius, Est. RaDec 18h 04m, -24.20)
Observer: Alan Shaffer (e-mail: milkyway@gte.net, web: http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/3693/)
Instrument: 25-inch Dobsonian reflector Location: Mt. Pinos, California, US
Light pollution: none Transparency: excellent Seeing: excellent
Time: Sat Jun 7 10:00:00 1997 UT Obs. no.: 142
Beautiful object under incredable skies. I have not seen such clear skies in 15 years. The O-III filter made the Lagoon Nebula jump out in the 10" as well as the 25" scopes. Very bright and large. I could actually abserve it with the naked eye, no problem. Very beautiful and large. The first object of many, many hours of observing to come.
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