Nelms Star Party 2006

by Richard Navarrete

>	Next  object was off the Steve Gottlieb SSP Challenge list.  Fun list!   
>	But I found this target bright compared to others.  It and UGC9821  
>	showed up well, faint, but really no problem picking them up.   Attribute 
>	it to transparency and elevation!  Nearby is a cluster of  galaxies, dim 
>	little ones... Navarrete got caught up logging them, I think  he quit 
>	after 9.  When I looked in his eyepiece, I counted  seven.

I ended up with 13 in the area, counting the original trio. Took me quite awhile to figure out what I was seeing, and some of them were very tough. Dimmest was MCG 2-39-24. That was listed at mag 16.1 in TheSky. There were other galaxies listed, but I couldn't detect them.

Richard