[sac-forum] Re: Call for Observations

By now you know the drill - regardless of weather.  Time to put together an observing list for the next couple of sessions and I have a list that is a good starter.  Here it is -

For August we are normally battling summer monsoon weather, but perhaps it will surprise us this time.  OK, what’s the constellation?  Draco of course and here are the objects, mostly galaxies of course.  NGC5965 is first and can be found a little over 2.5° southeast from iota Draconis.  While there see if you can pick out 13^th mag NGC5963.  Starting again from iota, swing about 2° northeast to NGC5982/85 a pair of 11.1 mag galaxies.  Again, while there, can you see 13^th mag NGC5981.  The next hop is 37’ southeast from 5^th mag SAO16848 to NGC6015.  Now we start a northward trek for the next three beginning with NGC6543, perhaps the showpiece of Draco.  This magnificent planetary can easily be found by sweeping about 3° southeast from omega Draconis.  Going back to omega swing 1° 42’ northeast to 10^th mag NGC6503.  The last of our northern trek takes us to NGC6643, which may be easily found by sweeping 1° 48’ almost due north from chi Draconis.  The last object for us to view is NGC6832.  The SAC database has this listed as an asterism.  This observation will give us an idea what is meant by asterism.  It is just a little more than 1° 12 arc-minutes northwest of 5^th mag SAO32122.

Let's hope the weather turns in our favor by the next weekend.

Enjoy and clear skies,
aj