... working ... Edit ... my ... was ... Edit ... Doug, I may have been with Tom and you while Barnard's Galaxy was in view in his 30". IIRC, I also saw it...
I wish there were star parties here on Maui :-( No clubs here, just one on Oahu. Ken xt10i ... be taking place ... Supernova ... invented. This year ... find...
DWB-111, a/k/a the Propeller Nebula, is a faint emission nebula in Cygnus. The DWB catalog stands for Dickel, Wendker, and Bieritz, who have compiled a...
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You know... I am really beginning to like this new hobby of mine. about 6:55 am this morning, I was looking for Saturn. As I was scanning the sky I spied a...
Public solar viewing activity Free views of the sun at Central Park/Lake Elizabeth in Fremont, CA. Sunday October 3, 2004 from 12:00pm - 4:00pm Central...
At 00:30 UT tonight I observed the recently discovered supernova SN 2004et in Cepheus using the 17" f/15 classical Cassegrain at the ASH Naylor Observatory....
Hi Dave! Sorry I missed you while I was bumbling around in the dark at BFSP! Hope to catch you out there again next spring! Doug Herbst ... Obsession....
Yup never know what your going to see when you look up. I aimed my low light video camera in a area in orion, and discovered another flashing geo sat. It's...
... Congrats on observing this supernova Dave! One small correction: NGC 6946 and the supernova are in Cygnus, not in Cepheus. Clear skies! Wouter van Reeven ...
I set up my Hardin 8" at about 8Pm tonight and started looking for Supernova in NGC 6946 with the help of Starry nights to get me into the area. I finally...
... moment ... the ... (vapor? ... becomes a ... I normally get to work around 6:15 a.m. I head outside for a coffee and smoke around 6:20 a.m..... I have...
Congrats on observing this supernova Dave! One small correction: NGC 6946 and the supernova are in Cygnus, not in Cepheus. Actually, Cartes du Ciel shows...
I normally get to work around 6:15 a.m. I head outside for a coffee and smoke around 6:20 a.m..... I have about 3 coworkers that have been joining me lately...
... and visible everywhere (providing you can see Venus at your location). ... An even closer star to Venus will be HD 87884, also known as SAO 98966 or BD+12...
... Interesting. Both SkyMap Pro 8 and The Guide 8 list NGC 6946 to be in Cygnus. But www.ngcic.org and some of the links found by Googleing for "ngc 6946...
... This is because the center of this galaxy lies right on the constellation boundary between the two constellations. I often receive "error reports" that my...
Seems that NGC 6946 has more than one historical controversy on where it resides. "NGC 6946 had been a subject of controversy in the past as to whether or not...
... Not at all. Look at any good chart. You'll see that the boundary between Cepheus and Cygnus arbitrarly runs right through the middle of the galaxy,...
When visiting galaxy NGC 6946 i always like to compare it to open cluster NGC 6939 just over the border in Cepheus. In small scopes the galaxy and cluster look...
Last night, I woke up at 5:00 AM because my arm was throbbing. I pulled a muscle before going to sleep and feel asleep on that arm. I got up to see if it was...
... and visible everywhere (providing you can see Venus at your location). ... An even closer star to Venus will be HD 87884, also known as SAO 98966 or BD+12...
Did Yahoo change the format for email subscribers? Now every message i get has an extra line or two of space at the top. Is anyone else seeing this or is it...
... Some do, some don't. Yahoo used to convert double blank lines to single ones, and double or multiple spaces to single ones, making any sort of table...
... Conditions were much better at the Naylor Observatory on Sunday night. I saw the SN 2004et through a fellow ASH member's 10" f/10 Meade LX200 with...
Hi Dave, ... With respect I don't really see why those two links would be considered definitive. I think it is a mistake to claim strongly that this galaxy ...
