[AZ-Observing] Re: Good Sentinel this weekend

Matt,

NGC 4762 was on my list as well. Too bad I didn't realize you were observoing 
this as well. Would've been fun to play "compare the view". I too found them 
worthy of sketching. I noted some mottling in the arms of NGC 4762, but 
couldn't see any hint of a dust lane as you saw, but then you've got 3.6 time 
the light gathering power of Gert (yes, I too believe telescope should have 
feminine names, eg Gert & Polly). NGC 4754 was noted as round with a small 
stellar core. The disk was pretty uniform in brightness to the edge. I user 
the ever famous term: Much brighter to the middle to describe the central 
core area. My observation was at 71x using my 17mm Vixem Lanthanum Superwide.

Matt, since I can't post attachments to the list and I don't have my own 
website, I'll forward you my sketch, I'd like to see yours as well.

Even though the clouds cut the night short and I only got about 4 
observations in on the SAC 110 list, I still had a good time. Aprt of the fun 
of this hobby for me is the comraderie and good conversation during breaks 
from observing.

BTW, Robotrack, my new equatorial platform from Red Oak Astronomy worked like 
a charm. Nothing like looking at Jupiter at 240x, going over to MAtt Scopeto 
have looksee there and coming back to Gert and still seieing Jupiter. I can 
honestly say, I'll never  have a scope that doesn't track again.

Here's looking to Cherry Rd next month.
Rick Tejera
Editor SACnews
Saguaro Astronomy Club
Phoenix, Arizona
SaguaroAstro@xxxxxxx
www.saguaroastro.org 

In a message dated 4/27/2003 17:50:03 US Mountain Standard Time, 
mluttinen@xxxxxxxxx writes:


> Friday at midnight: NGCs 4762 and 4754 in Virgo. Here we have an
> "edge-on" and a nearly "face-on" in close proximity (~20' apart). They
> were in the same FOV at 100x and M-object bright in the 14.25" Newt. The
> brightness of EVERYTHING in this scope is something to which I am still
> acclimating myself. It's a problem I am happy to have! These two
> galaxies have such an alignment that they appear to be two profiles of
> the same object (but for the larger size of 4762, the edge-on). They
> begged to be sketched, so I obliged. Extended study of 4762 revealed a
> likely dark lane obscuring the "bottom," westward-facing portion of the
> south-pointing arm of this fine galaxy.
> 




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