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NGC6818 (Planetary Nebula, in Sagittarius)
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: Sat Sep 24 14:45:00 2005 UT Obs. no.: 1342
This planetary is fairly difficult to locate but easy to see. It is about as bright as NGC 6210 in Hercules, but has almost no colour. Elliptical with a large eccentricity of about 1.2 or so. It is quite faint and requires averted vision even at 170x magnification. Comparatively large: About as large as NGC 3242.Identifiable comfortably only at 100x, where it is clearly different from a point object. This object neighbours two fairly bright stars. Even at 170x, field being about 15', I could still see one of the stars in the field.
NGC6818 (Planetary Nebula, in Sagittarius)
Observer: Andrew Cooper (e-mail: acooper@pobox.com, web: http://www.siowl.com/)
Instrument: 46-cm Dobsonian reflector Location: Vekol Road, Arizona, Unites States
Light pollution: none Transparency: good Seeing: fair
Time: Sun Jun 5 10:49:00 2005 UT Obs. no.: 1281
Small blue disk, even and featureless, maybe a little darker at the center, about 30" in diameter, no central star visible
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