by Jamie Dillon
Could tell it was cold when the cheekbones hurt when cozying up to the eyepiece. And no I didn't freeze any appendages to any part of the apparatus.
Did have a plan, though, besides oohing over M42 and M43, and checking in on Saturn and its 4 obvious moons. After the talk a short while back about M35 and its line-of-sight neighbor, 2158, it was time to make a firsthand visit. Even with the Moon just up, M35 was breathtaking at 79x, all bright and dense. Stared at ngc 2158 and remembered once again that evocative note of Burnham's about its being located away up toward The Rim (p 939). /tac.mailing.list/2004/Oct/0385.html
Between being blotto tired and cold, got everything stowed and myself tucked into the sack with no breakage.
Oh yeah, As to 1999, the featured object of the week, it was Gottlieb who was on about checking that intriguing nebula out for detail. It's classed as a combination of emission and reflection nebula. 19 January, then 2 February '02:
Better without OIII. Looked like a bright distant little galaxy. Animal sez go back with magnification up. Again 2 February (at 210x), to the E like a shawl; to W of the star a hollow space, then layered nebula. Pretty!
Posted on sf-bay-tac Dec 04, 2004 20:50:28 PT
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