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M30 (Globular Cluster, in Capricornus)
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 13 00:30:00 2007 UT Obs. no.: 1718
This evening my friends Mike Dzubaty, Steve Borer and I joined other members of the Astronomical Society of New Haven for a public star party in Silver Sands State Park in Milford Ct. Most of our observing involved looking at Globular clusters. We started first by observing M15 in Pegasus. This globular was rather large but individual stars were not easy to see. In Hercules we observed the two good old standbys M13 and M92. In each case many individual stars were easily resolved. That's what makes these two globular clusters so great. We also observed M30 in Capricornus. This globular cluster was small yet interesting. I was able to see two trails of stars leading out from the globular cluster. In Andromeda we observed galaxies M31 and M32. We were able to see the dust lane cutting through the galaxy while M32 showed itself very well. In Lyra we visited M57 The Ring Nebula. One view of this and we were all craving a donut. It was very sharp and clear. Finally we turned the small rich field telescope onto M45 The Pleiades Open Cluster. These Stars are as blue as they can be. What beauty. While we were observing about three or four slow moving Dracanoid Meteors went across the sky. One of them was very bright and it ended with a bright flash. Once again we had a successful night of observing.
M30 (Globular Cluster, in Capricornus)
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: Sat Nov 19 19:46:00 2005 UT Obs. no.: 1407
A fairly bright globular cluster gave a mottled view through my telescope. It is located very close to a star.
M30 (Globular Cluster, in Capricornus)
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: Wed Sep 21 15:45:00 2005 UT Obs. no.: 1333
Very prominent and comparatively bright globular cluster. Fairly large. Central brightness and surrounding haze are clear. Beautiful, but like any other globular. I expected a very faint, practically invisible globular cluster, but was astonished to see this beautiful sight.
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