[sac-forum] February - late Call for Observations

Seems I forgot to post the list for observations for February and it is close, very close, to sending it off to our excellent editor.   If you can get me your observations by Saturday please do.  That will give me a day to put them together and send it off.  As a reminder here is the advance list for the objects of interest.

For February we are doing the southerly Lepus.  In addition to a very nice globular cluster in the Messier catalog it has a nice assortment of 10th and 11th magnitude galaxies.  For starters try your hand at NGC1744 a barred spiral galaxy about 34’ northwest of a 5th magnitude star.  Another barred spiral with a ring is NGC1832, located about 34’ north of northwest from mu Leporis.  Next is M79, finally.  It is located about 36’ northeast from a 5th magnitude double star.  A little known planetary, IC 418 is a very nice treat.  It forms a nice triangle with 6.5 and 7th magnitude stars.  NGC1964 is in the Herschel 400 list, is an elongated barred spiral that can be found about 1° 40’ southeast from beta Leporis.  Finally is the open cluster NGC2017, also known as h3780 a most beautiful multiple star.  So the question here is what criteria is there for defining a grouping of related stars as a multiple star or an open cluster?  No, I don’t know but I’m hoping someone can come up with something!  All of the galaxies are brighter than 12th magnitude so we shouldn’t have troubles seeing them in any size telescope.

Remember if you can get them to me by Saturday, then by all means send them!

Thanks,
aj

P.S. - I'll try to keep up next month.

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