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NGC6709 (Open Cluster, in Aquila)
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: Sat Sep 24 16:00:00 2005 UT Obs. no.: 1343
This open cluster shows a few bright stars in a small region. Nice. Easy to locate. Contains a reddish-orange star. Shape is somewhat like a vague letter 'M'.
NGC6645 (Open Cluster, in Sagittarius)
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: Sat Sep 24 15:30:00 2005 UT Obs. no.: 1344
I'm only 90% sure I've seen this open cluster. I saw a large field of few bright stars. Located south of Gamma Scuti.
NGC752 (Open Cluster, in Andromeda)
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 Sep 23 15:00:00 2005 UT Obs. no.: 1341
This is an excellent, large, dense cluster. This cluster was amazing!! Large no. of bright stars spread over a 1 degree field. It is a must see object! It is strange that this is not a messier.
NGC7789 (Open Cluster, in Cassiopeia)
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 Sep 23 15:00:00 2005 UT Obs. no.: 1340
Lying between two double stars - Rho CAS and Sigma CAS, this open cluster is very easy to locate. It lies almost exactly in the middle of the line joining the double stars. I could easily identify the density of stars but could not draw a boundary to the cluster. The region is rich with faint stars.
M73 (Open Cluster, in Aquarius)
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: Wed Sep 21 16:15:00 2005 UT Obs. no.: 1335
Nice. I could not resolve the stars at 100x and I did not bother to go any further in power. Looks like a hazy thing.
M103 (Open Cluster, in Cassiopeia)
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 Sep 16 17:30:00 2005 UT Obs. no.: 1324
A not impressive cluster in CAS which has only 4 bright stars and a few fainter stars. Atleast with the 14th day waxing moon, this was an uninteresting object near Delta Cassiopeia.
M45 (Pleiades) (Open Cluster, in Taurus)
Observer: Jon Yimin (e-mail: jcy123@psu.edu)
Instrument: 8-inch Dobsonian reflector Location: State College, Pennsylvania, USA
Light pollution: severe Transparency: fair Seeing: fair
Time: Sun Sep 4 07:01:00 2005 UT Obs. no.: 1301
The seven sisters were looking great. Even though I am in the middle of town, the OCL was absolutely beautiful. However I did not see any signs of nebulosity.
M34 (Open Cluster, in Perseus)
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 07:29:00 2005 UT Obs. no.: 1298
Big, coarse, sparse, fills the low power field (60x, 1deg), less than 100 members arranged in small clumps or short sweeps of stars
M11 (Wild Duck Cluster) (Open Cluster, in Scutum)
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 05:43:00 2005 UT Obs. no.: 1291
Rich cluster in a rich Milky Way starfield, about 10' in diameter, cluster members surprisingly even in magnitude with one very bright orange star, a number of very obvious rifts divide the cluster into uneven clumps
M39 (Open Cluster, in Cygnus)
Observer: Akarsh Simha (e-mail: akarsh_simha@fastmail.fm)
Instrument: 8-inch equatorial reflector Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Light pollution: moderate Transparency: fair Seeing: fair
Time: Sat Aug 6 22:00:00 2005 UT Obs. no.: 1309
Beautiful, Bright, fairly dense open cluster. Easy to locate once you know the neighbouring stars. About 80x does well.
M26 (Open Cluster, in Scutum)
Observer: Akarsh Simha (e-mail: akarsh_simha@fastmail.fm)
Instrument: 8-inch equatorial reflector Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Light pollution: light Transparency: excellent Seeing: excellent
Time: Tue Jun 7 16:00:00 2005 UT Obs. no.: 1316
Very small bu conspicuously hazy patch at about 80x, but reveals a fairly dence starfield at 170x. It is about 1 degree of arc away from Delta Scutum (I suppose).
M7 (Open Cluster, in Scorpius)
Observer: Sriram.M.Gubbi (e-mail: sriram_gubbi@yahoo.co.in)
Instrument: 6-inch other Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Light pollution: moderate Transparency: fair Seeing: good
Time: Mon May 30 23:30:00 2005 UT Obs. no.: 1240
There was a huge improvement over the appearence of this galactic cluster than my 2 inch refractor. There were many number of faint stars over the size of the full moon.
M6 (Butterfly Cluster) (Open Cluster, in Scorpius)
Observer: Sriram.M.Gubbi (e-mail: sriram_gubbi@yahoo.co.in)
Instrument: 6-inch other Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Light pollution: moderate Transparency: fair Seeing: good
Time: Mon May 30 23:29:00 2005 UT Obs. no.: 1239
There was a slight improvement over the cluster's appearence than my 2 inch refractor with a few fainter stars scatered all around the bright cluster.
M44 (Praesepe) (Open Cluster, in Cancer)
Observer: Joe Caggiano (e-mail: jcaggiano@mindspring.com)
Instrument: 6-inch equatorial reflector Location: Horsham, Pa., USA
Light pollution: moderate Transparency: excellent Seeing: excellent
Time: Wed May 11 00:00:00 2005 UT Obs. no.: 1234
Started around 6:30 EST to check out the sun. Viewing at various powers between 30x and 75x I viewed Sunspot group 759 and 763. Group 763 looked like a group of about 3 dozen "tiny" sunspots (Mrcury sized?) spread out like a small island chain. Group 759 appeared as a single large sunspot whose penumbra nearly tripled the size of the umbra. I could pick up intrcate detail in this large sunspot. Afterwards I waited about an hour and a half to view the moon. Viewing at 30x and 75x the detail was astounding. I caught a rift on the face of the moon just off the termination line. It looked like a fault line in the moon's crust that can only be seen during this phase. Viewing some of the southern craters and mountains at over 200x always leaves me speechless. Around 8:37, Saturn blinked into view. Viewing tionight was not as good as the previous nights. There was a thin haze in the upper atmosphere so that viewing at 203x was difficult to see the Cassinni Division. I caught both Rhea and Titan, but because of the haze 2 other moons kept blinking in and out of view. Jupiter's view was not much better. All 4 Galilean moons were visible with Calipso in a WIDE orbit...possibly 10 Jovian diameters from the planet itself. I had to pan the scope in order to catch it at 203x. ALl that was visible on Jupiter was the 2 equatorial belts and the South Polar Zone. The north looked all beige. Tried for various galaxies again in the Coma region just off the tail of Leo, but the First Quarter moon drowned out everything in the area. Decided to end my night looking off of Gemini to spot M44 star clusted. Beautiful at low power I only caught about half as many stars as I should have due to the haze. Still impressive though.
NGC4755 (Open Cluster, in Crux)
Observer: Akarsh Simha (e-mail: akarsh_simha@fastmail.fm)
Instrument: 8-inch equatorial reflector Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Light pollution: severe Transparency: poor Seeing: good
Time: Sun Mar 20 16:30:00 2005 UT Obs. no.: 1329
The Jewel Box was terrible from Bangalore North as the South is completely light-polluted. I could see about 7-8 bright stars.
M29 (Open Cluster, in Cygnus)
Observer: Akarsh Simha (e-mail: akarsh_simha@fastmail.fm)
Instrument: 8-inch equatorial reflector Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Light pollution: light Transparency: good Seeing: good
Time: Sat Mar 19 22:00:00 2005 UT Obs. no.: 1331
A unappreciable cluster of about 6 bright stars. Stars are about 5.5 mag.
NGC6940 (Open Cluster, in Vulpecula)
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.: 1164
NGC 6940 - A large cluster, composed of approximately 100 bright stars.
M103 (Open Cluster, in Cassiopeia)
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.: 1163
M 103 - Small and faint. I've didn't manage to resolve it into stars, even at high power.
M26 (Open Cluster, in Scutum)
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.: 1162
M 26 - Small and faint. I've didn't manage to resolve it into stars, even at high power. Towards the center I've seen two stars
NGC7082 (Open Cluster, in Cygnus)
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.: 1161
NGC 7082 - Composed of 30 faint stars.
M39 (Open Cluster, in Cygnus)
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.: 1160
M 39 - Large and very scattered. Composed of approximately 40 stars, of which 10 brighter ones.
M34 (Open Cluster, in Perseus)
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.: 1159
M 34 - Fairly dense, composed of approximately 50 stars.
M23 (Open Cluster, in Sagittarius)
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.: 1158
M 23 - Small, composed of approximately 80 stars.
M7 (Open Cluster, in Scorpius)
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.: 1157
M 7 - Large, composed of approximately 50 bright stars. More condensed towards the center. It is visible with the naked eye.
M44 (Praesepe) (Open Cluster, in Cancer)
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.: 1156
M 44 (Praesepe cluster) - Easily seen with the naked eye. Through the telescope I've seen a huge number of stars, arranged in the shape of an isosceles triangle.
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