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M77 (Galaxy, in Cetus)
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: light Transparency: good Seeing: good
Time: Tue Jan 3 19:30:00 2006 UT Obs. no.: 1464
On this day, for my luck, the power went off in the city and I got to see a country sky right in the heart of the city! But the moon washed away the fainter stars. I aimed for M77 and easily foung it. Its unusually bright centre does show a striking difference between ordinary galaxies and active galaxies. It bore magnification well and at very low magnification, it appeared a sort of planetary nebula with a star right next to it.
M77 (Galaxy, in Cetus)
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: Fri Sep 16 23:30:00 2005 UT Obs. no.: 1327
A nice object, but not even showing a distinct core and surrounding haze at Bangalore. Looks like a pair of hazy stars (One is the galactic core, and the other is a 10.76 mag star: TYC4699-01219-1), one of them being larger (The galactic core) than the other. Best at abt. 100x on a 8" f/8.The program SkyChart v2.7 with the Tycho 2 star catalog helped me trace all my observations more easily in spite of the city's light pollution.
M77 (Galaxy, in Cetus)
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: good
Time: Wed Dec 31 05:45:00 1997 UT Obs. no.: 286
Easily swept up from memory near Delta Ceti; an obvious fuzzy patch at 38x. Had a condensed, starlike core. At 76x, appeared to be slightly elongated N-S.
M77 (Galaxy, in Cetus)
Observer: Dave Mitsky (e-mail: djm28@psu.edu)
Instrument: 80-mm binoculars Location: Harrisburg, Pa, U.S.A.
Light pollution: light Transparency: excellent Seeing: good
Time: Sun Sep 7 08:10:00 1997 UT Obs. no.: 223
Using my Celestron 20x80's I found M77, an elliptical galaxy in the head of Cetus. It was rather easy to distinguish as a fuzzy glow south of two evenly matched field stars.
M77 (Galaxy in Cetus)
Observer: John Callender (e-mail: jbc@west.net, web: http://www.west.net/~jbc/)
Instrument: 50-mm binoculars Location: Carpinteria, CA, USA
Light pollution: none Transparency: excellent Seeing: fair
Time: Mon Jan 6 04:32:00 1997 UT Obs. no.: 2
Detected in 7x50s as a faint "star" with just a hint of fuzziness under averted vision.
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