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M33 (Pinwheel Galaxy) (Galaxy, in Triangulum)
Observer: Josh Carter (e-mail: rca1543831@insightbb.com)
Instrument: 10-inch Schmidt-Cassegrain reflector Location: springfield , illinois, USA
Light pollution: light Transparency: good Seeing: poor
Time: Sun Dec 1 14:30:00 2002 UT Obs. no.: 727
I'm beginning to think that what i once thought of as light polluted suburban skys aren't so bad after all. I spotted this with my 26MM Plossl lens with a narrowband deepsky filter. I couldn't get a great view of it tonight because the seeing wasn't at its best.. but I'm happy just to have seen it from my backyard.
Saturn (Planet)
Observer: Josh Carter (e-mail: rca1543831@insightbb.com)
Instrument: 10-inch Schmidt-Cassegrain reflector Location: springfield , illinois, USA
Light pollution: moderate Transparency: good Seeing: fair
Time: Fri Nov 22 05:15:00 2002 UT Obs. no.: 724
The other night I observed Saturn at 500X+ (5.2MM Orion Lanthanum) through my 10 inch LX-200. WOW! I've never seen Saturn that large and clear. I did not have my scope set up for tracking and goto that night so I had a hard time keeping saturn in my field of view. Altogether it was at least the size of a quarter. The Cassini division was very large and easy to see, but I couldn't keep it in the field of view long enough to look at the Enckes division.
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