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M81 (Galaxy, in Ursa Major)
Observer: Joe Muse (e-mail: jjharp@yahoo.com)
Instrument: 8-inch Dobsonian reflector Location: Roswell, New Mexico, USA
Light pollution: severe Transparency: fair Seeing: poor
Time: Sat Jan 20 15:00:00 2018 UT Obs. no.: 2040
Bortle Class 3 with moving clouds, but the evening was still enjoyable with fellow observers. Saw several objects through other scopes but did bring in M81 and M82 with the wife's 8" Orion Deep Space Explorer. .
M81 (Galaxy, in Ursa Major)
Observer: Alex Mataringa (e-mail: melhonar@gmail.com)
Instrument: 102-mm refractor Location: Prilipeti, Banat, Romania
Light pollution: none Transparency: good Seeing: good
Time: Wed Aug 24 20:10:00 2011 UT Obs. no.: 1874
M81 galaxy in Ursa Major, oval shape,faint,25 mm eyepiece, in the same field of vue withM82 galaxy.
M81 (Galaxy, in Ursa Major)
Observer: Joe Caggiano (e-mail: jcaggiano@mindspring.com, web: http://home.mindspring.com/~jcaggiano/)
Instrument: 70-mm binoculars Location: Promised Land State Park, Pa, USA
Light pollution: none Transparency: excellent Seeing: excellent
Time: Sun Apr 22 06:00:00 2007 UT Obs. no.: 1642
An excellent night of galaxy hunting continued with M81 and M82 in Ursa major. Spiral detail was easily seen in M81. Both were easily visible and M81 was quite large with both direct and averted vision. These 2 closely locked galaxies are 11 million LY distant from us.
M81 (Galaxy, in Ursa Major)
Observer: Joe Caggiano (e-mail: jcaggiano@mindspring.com, web: http://home.mindspring.com/~jcaggiano/)
Instrument: 70-mm binoculars Location: Glenside, Pa, USA
Light pollution: moderate Transparency: good Seeing: fair
Time: Sat Jan 21 07:30:00 2006 UT Obs. no.: 1472
Viewed M81 & M82 early Saturday morning. Not too much detail was visible through the binos but at least they are visible from my back yard. There was also high level wisps of clouds.
M81 (Galaxy, in Ursa Major)
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: Wed Nov 30 05:10:00 2005 UT Obs. no.: 1452
Just casually moved through the field and found it. Not an exciting object from a light polluted area. Infact galaxies don't show up well in light polluted areas. But still it was appreciable.
M81 (Galaxy, in Ursa Major)
Observer: Joe Caggiano (e-mail: jcaggiano@mindspring.com)
Instrument: 70-mm binoculars Location: Horsham, Pa., USA
Light pollution: light Transparency: excellent Seeing: excellent
Time: Wed Mar 16 03:30:00 2005 UT Obs. no.: 1185
Finally got out after 3 months of mud and snow converting my backyard into a swamp. The sky was incredibly dark and Ursa Major was almost directly overhead. I used the "y" and "a" stars in the bowl to point my way to M81 and M82. Found them relatively quickly but they were not as bright as I had expected. M81 appeared only about half as large as the Andromeda Galaxy and it was noticeably fainter by at least a magnitude also. M82 was visible not far off. Much smaller than its companion it was still somewhat easy to make out after initially finding M81. To make sure I am able to find it with my 6" scope in the upcoming weeks (when it gets alittle less muddy outside) I deliberately went back inside the house and came out later. Found it all 3 times with little difficulty. I will have to get a much better view if the sky is dark tonight and free of clouds.
M81 (Galaxy, in Ursa Major)
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.: 1165
M 81 - Galaxy in Ursa Major. Small, elongated, brighter towards the center
M81 (Galaxy, in Ursa Major)
Observer: Sidney Strangmann (e-mail: sidney.strangmann@12move.nl, web: http://home.wanadoo.nl/strangmann)
Instrument: 8-inch Dobsonian reflector Location: Laren, Gelderland, The Netherlands
Light pollution: light Transparency: good Seeing: excellent
Time: Sat May 15 22:00:00 2004 UT Obs. no.: 998
Close to the German border i have a view locationfar from the city of Amsterdam whats the location i live.So almost no light pollution, I have seen M81, M82, M97, M108, M109 and M51.M81 and M82 was perfect to see by 50X and all the other objects by 100X.I was using the Baader neodymium moon&skyglowe filter, this filter enhances deepsky objects against the background sky.
M81 (Galaxy, in Ursa Major)
Observer: Paul (e-mail: paul_ohstbucks@msn.com)
Instrument: 12.5-inch Dobsonian reflector Location: Lee's Summit, MO, USA
Light pollution: severe Transparency: good Seeing: poor
Time: Wed Nov 13 01:00:00 2002 UT Obs. no.: 725
M81 was bright and obvious at 59x and was surrounded by a bright haze of its halo. No specific detail was noted in the spiral arms other than the presence of lumunosity. M82 was spectacular!! Wow....I think I even said that at the eyepiece. What a cool looking galaxy, and easily viewed from my lousy back yard. M82 had no bright central core, the whole galaxy was bright!! At 118x, the galaxy filled the entire field of view. The long edge on galaxy streaked through the entire FOV. I see where it gets its nickname "Cigar Galaxy".
M81 (Galaxy, in Ursa Major)
Observer: Michael Amato (e-mail: abogmick@aol.com)
Instrument: 20-inch Dobsonian reflector Location: West Haven, Connecticut, United States
Light pollution: none Transparency: excellent Seeing: excellent
Time: Sun Mar 17 01:00:00 2002 UT Obs. no.: 617
I went to the northwest hills of Conn. for our annual messier marathon. M81 galaxy had a bright central core. the outer areas of the nearly face on galaxy showed very well in the 20" dob one of the viewers brought.
M81 (Galaxy, in Ursa Major)
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 05:55:00 1997 UT Obs. no.: 287
Playing tag with high clouds drifting through from the S, I shifted my telescope to the other side of the yard so I could point it at the N sky. M81 was swept up after referring to the small chart of UMa in the Audubon Field Guide to the Night Sky. A big, bright, fuzzy oval patch elongated N-S at 38x. A fairly large, condensed center.
M81 (Galaxy in Ursa Major)
Observer: John Callender (e-mail: jbc@west.net, web: http://www.west.net/~jbc/)
Instrument: 50-mm binoculars Location: Carpinteria, CA, USA
Light pollution: light Transparency: fair Seeing: good
Time: Thu Jan 30 06:30:00 1997 UT Obs. no.: 25
My first viewing of this object. It was easy in the 7x50s; a small, elongated fuzzy patch.
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