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Observations of object "M27 (Dumbell Nebula)":

M27 (Dumbell Nebula) (Planetary Nebula, in Vulpecula)
Observer: Michael Amato (e-mail: abigmick@aol.com)
Instrument: 18-inch Dobsonian reflector   Location: Milford, Connecticut, United States
Light pollution: moderate   Transparency: fair   Seeing: fair
Time: Sat Oct 21 00:00:00 2017 UT   Obs. no.: 2034

This evening my brother Anthony & I attended a local star party in Milford, Ct. The biggest scope at the star party was an 18" dob. In it we viewed M27, the Dumbbell Nebula. It showed nicely & we were even able to see its shape. We also viewed M31, M52, M81, M45 & M57. We also observed Uranus with its blue green color. What a great night of astronomy!

M27 (Dumbell Nebula) (Planetary Nebula, in Vulpecula)
Observer: Joe Caggiano (e-mail: jcaggiano@mindspring.com, web: http://home.mindspring.com/~jcaggiano/)
Instrument: 10-inch Dobsonian reflector   Location: Glenside, Pa, USA
Light pollution: light   Transparency: excellent   Seeing: good
Time: Sun Aug 12 06:00:00 2007 UT   Obs. no.: 1694

Finally, a decent amount of detail is visible of the "apple core". Using a much larger scope broke the barrier between a hazy smudge and alot of disapointment, to alot of detail and utter excitiement. Best viewed at 48x with a nebula filter, the dumbell's shape was easy to see. Also a hint of green was visible throughout the nebula.

M27 (Dumbell Nebula) (Planetary Nebula, 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.: 1171

Round, evenly spread light. In the north and south, with averted vision, some dark intrusions are visible.

M27 (Dumbell Nebula) (Planetary Nebula, in Vulpecula)
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: Tue Oct 12 02:00:00 2004 UT   Obs. no.: 1073

After reading alot of articles about the Dumbell Nebula, I figured I would target it tonight. Anyone with an EQ Reflector may know the difficulties of trying to view an object near the zenith point. I had very high hopes after reading articles about how much brighter it is than the Ring Nebula (M57), and how much larger it is. One article I read had claimed this planetary to be "the best of all the planetaries". The only good thing I have found about this particular nebula is that it can be spotted easily in binos (as small as 50mm I have read). Using the stars in Lyra and the last star in the point of the cross of Cygnus, I found it immediately in my 70mm binos. It actually looked better in the binos than my 6" scope at the lowest power. "Disappointment" is probably the only word I can use for this. Perhaps I need a MUCH larger aperature telescope but it was faint and without much structure. Pale green and barely visible as an "apple core" I had to use averted vision just to make out the shape. No detail was within despite similar viewing throughout this week and last week of other objects that were fainter and yeilded much more detail. I think I will steer clear of this object until I get a lager telescope (like the 200" Polomar Reflector).

M27 (Dumbell Nebula) (Planetary Nebula, in Vulpecula)
Observer: David Moorhouse (e-mail: climber@world-net.co.nz, web: http://www.binoscope.co.nz)
Instrument: 16-inch binoculars   Location: Auckland, New Zealand
Light pollution: none   Transparency: good   Seeing: excellent
Time: Sun Jun 13 12:30:00 2004 UT   Obs. no.: 1016

This observation was taken through a 16" binocular under truely dark skies.Moving on to the dumbbell nebula, it was quite fortuitous that this object was low to the horizon and I needed to be seated before looking through the eyepiece, as if I was standing on a ladder I would surely have fallen off backwards with amazement. In the past I have only seen the dumbbell nebula as a blurry apple core shaped object that was a dim and relatively indistinct object. Changing from 12 inch to 16 inches of aperture has made a huge difference to what is visible in this nebula. Now not only the core but the fainter outside edge is of the nebula where easily visible, with binocular version one of the huge benefits that you get is not only the increase in contrast but more importantly greatly enhanced shaped recognition. We were able to see texture in the surface of the core, several notches and irregularities were easily visible on one edge of the nebula. Today after going back and looking at a photograph of the dumbbell nebula afforded little improvement on what I was able to see with my own eyes.

M27 (Dumbell Nebula) (Planetary Nebula, in Vulpecula)
Observer: Paul (e-mail: paul_ohstbucks@msn.com)
Instrument: 12.5-inch Dobsonian reflector   Location: Lee's Summit, MO, USA
Light pollution: moderate   Transparency: excellent   Seeing: fair
Time: Wed Nov 6 01:00:00 2002 UT   Obs. no.: 714

I spent some time observing M27 with medium to high magnification tonight. I had no specific goals in mind, but never really tried high magnification on the Dumbell before long enough to make any observations of note. At 157x with the OIII filter I was noting detail in the neblosity when I noticed a star popped and out of view in the lower lobe with averted vision. With that, I removed the filter to see how many more I might pop into view. Of course, I lost detail and brightness in the neblosity but the central star popped into view as well as 1 star in the upper lobe. At 314x I was able to detect 4-5 stars in the lower lobe along with the central star and 1 star in the uppper lobe. All required averted vision.

M27 (Dumbell Nebula) (Planetary Nebula, in Vulpecula)
Observer: Paul (e-mail: paul_ohstbucks@msn.com)
Instrument: 12.5-inch Dobsonian reflector   Location: Lee's Summit, MO, USA
Light pollution: severe   Transparency: excellent   Seeing: fair
Time: Wed Oct 23 01:00:00 2002 UT   Obs. no.: 704

With a bright moon in the sky, I felt like doing some comparisons with the OIII filter. The nebula was easily noted as faint grey spot showing no detail without the filter. With the filter the dumbell shape became obvoius, but the moonlight shining in the tube was awfully distracting, but a noticable improvement was noted. I can't wait till the November 4th new moon!!!!!!!!Paul

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.

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

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

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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