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M68 (Globular Cluster, in Hydra)
Observer: Michael Amato (e-mail: abigmick@aol.com)
Instrument: 16-inch Dobsonian reflector Location: Milford, Connecticut, United States
Light pollution: moderate Transparency: fair Seeing: fair
Time: Sat May 16 01:25:00 2009 UT Obs. no.: 1822
Last evening my brother Anthony, my friends Steve Borer, Mike Dzubaty and his son Mike went to a local star party at Silver Sands State Park. The first object we observed was Saturn. Both hemispheres showed some cloud bands with its rings almost tilted edge on. Four moons of Saturn were also visible. We observed five galaxies with M104 showing its dust lane fairly well. Right near M104 was the Alligator Asterism which I saw for the first time ever. M82's dust lanes also showed up well also but its companion M81 was a lot brighter. M51 and its companion NGC 1595 cores looked like a pair of head lights in the 16' Dob. As for globular clusters M3 and M13 were there usual bright sights. There was more speckling in M13 than in M3. It's been many years since I observed the very faint globular cluster M68. With the 16" Dob. we were able to actually see a few individual stars. Thank goodness for large scopes. The grand finale was M57 the ring nebula which really was showing well. For icing on the cake we had two passes from the ISS. Star Paries, that's the life.
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