Nebulae, Clusters, Galaxy on 25 Mar 1998 (Observation 110)
Date:
25 Mar 1998 (NZST)
Time:
00:00 (NZST)
Title:
Nebulae, Clusters, Galaxy
Nebulae, clusters, galaxy.
Started 1998-03-25 9.00.
Using 33cm Newtonian and 10x50 binoculars.
Used 13 inch reflector (9mm Nagler 180x, 19mm TeleVue 80x) and 10x25 binoculars.
Using eMate for notes with backlighting on and screen tilted to illuminate keyboard its quite effective.
Orion nebula brilliant. Bright and excellent, sharp detail over the entire field.
Fine filamentary detail seen near periphery of nebula.
The Panda 10x25 binoculars give a surprisingly sharp view with nebulosity obvious over quite a wide area.
The stars in M41 were good in the reflector except for slight coma at edge of field.
Tarantula nebula very nice. Bubbles of gas, dark areas and filamentary structures visible to half the field.
Omega Centauri resolved to core. Thousands of pinpoint stars filling the entire field.
At lower power the object looks 3 dimensional and the stars are slightly yellow.
47 Tuc also very nice. Denser in centre with stars covering about 60% of the field.
Jewel box showed 100 stars with orange and blue colors obvious.
Eta Car near zenith, extended over several fields with dark lanes and clouds of dust obvious.
Using low power eyepiece structure more obvious but still extended beyond field.
NGC5128 fairly low surface brightness but dark band obvious and some hint of detail in galaxy.
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