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M82 (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.: 2041
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. .
M82 (Galaxy, in Ursa Major)
Observer: Joe Caggiano (e-mail: jcaggiano@mindspring.com, web: http://www.joecaggiano.com)
Instrument: 10-inch Dobsonian reflector Location: Glenside, Pa, USA
Light pollution: light Transparency: excellent Seeing: excellent
Time: Tue Feb 17 01:00:00 2009 UT Obs. no.: 1813
Spotted M82 as a faint streak through my 10" at 40x. M81 shared the FOV with it. Easily saw structure of M82 and a dark diagonal rift between the 2 lobes. M82 showed more detail than M81. Detail showed up rather well on time exposure using a camera. I have posted pics on my website.
M82 (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.: 1166
M 82 - It appears in the same field with M 81. Elongated, very difficult.
M82 (Galaxy, in Ursa Major)
Observer: Michael Amato (e-mail: abigmick@aol.com)
Instrument: 20-inch Dobsonian reflector Location: West Haven, United States
Light pollution: none Transparency: excellent Seeing: excellent
Time: Sun Mar 17 01:10:00 2002 UT Obs. no.: 618
M 82 galaxy was edge on.There were numerous dust lanes in the galaxy.In the 20" dob, the galaxy looked very much like a harmonica.
M82 (Galaxy, in Ursa Major, Est. RaDec -)
Observer: Eero Holmstrm (e-mail: holmerkki@altavista.net, web: http://www.fda.iwarp.com)
Instrument: 8-inch Dobsonian reflector Location: Pernajan kirkonkyl, Pernaja, Finland
Light pollution: light Transparency: good Seeing: good
Time: Fri Sep 10 22:15:00 1999 UT Obs. no.: 506
Quite nice at 96x, the dust lane was clearly visible. The edges were pretty distorted.
M82 (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.: 288
Swept up along with M81. A very thin, elongated fuzzy streak running E-W. Obvious at 38x; no central condensation noticed in the quick look I got before clouds moved over it.
M82 (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.: 26
Made a nice contrast in the same binocular field as M81. It was much smaller, though definitely still fuzzy under averted vision.
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