FreeLists / az-observing / [AZ-Observing] Re: A good time at Hovatter Norte

["L Knauth" <Knauth@xxxxxxx>]

I was one of the lucky ones at Hovatter Norte Thursday and Friday nights.  The 
sky was fantastic between about midnight and 3:30 am Saturday morning.   It was 
my first chance at the galaxies east of the Milky Way with the 25? Obsession.  
Last year I almost threw my Uranometria 2000 away because it distracted by 
showing so many galaxies no one would ever see.   Wrong.  Most of them are 
actually visible in the 25.  Of course, the bright galaxies just blow you off 
the ladder with spiral structure, rifts, dark lanes, mottles, and knots, but 
what I am dreaming about tonight is sweeping with a 13mm Nagler in certain 
areas and watching tiny glow after glow pass by.  All angles, shapes, and 
brightnesses.  Little island universes each one of them.  Just amazing.  And I 
haven?t even gotten to the actual galaxy clusters yet. You?ll have to take a 
look with me sometime.
Another object still burning in my memory tonight is the underrated and unique 
NGC 1931 in Auriga.   It is small, needs a lot of magnification, and resolves 
into a surprise:  a very small, tight cluster with 4 bright stars enshrouded in 
an oval of nebulosity.  It also looked great in my 12.5?, so it should be a 
neat object in the kinds of scopes people have nowadays.  Take a look if you 
haven?t seen it and let me know what you think.

Ciao, 

Paul Knauth


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