[AZ-Observing] Re: Saturday night at Cherry Rd.

NGC7142/"NGC7129-33" was on my observing list for Saturday night
at Vekol.  For 7142 my notes show an oval of relatively faint stars (2:1
aspect ratio) about 11' in long dimension (E-W).  The Cl+N was more
difficult.  Night Sky Observer's Guide lists 7129 as Cl+N and 7133 as
nebula, but from my observations, they are all the same object..  The
nebula incorporates a small trapezoid of fairly bright stars east of 7142, 
and the nebulosity was just visible without a UHC filter.  My notes show the 
object as faint, about 4' in diameter and much better with the filter.  Check 
out the photo on page 140 of  vol 1 of Night Sky Observer's Guide.

The above observations were with a 14" f4.5 with a 14mm UWA eyepiece -
114X/0.74 degrees FOV.  The filter was an Orion Ultrablock.

Steve Bell
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