Montebello Wed 7Nov07 Fog below for sweet skies above

Mark Johnston

George was off in assorted galaxy groups and shared a few views with us both discussing if we saw some fuzzies or not in a few cases. I had meant to get back to 7331 which he took the time to dial up. My goal was to see the 4th of the apparent members which was 7336 and is smaller so I missed it last time out. A good time all the same. Very few galaxies on my target list for the night so thanks George for rounding things out. Galaxies are my #1 favorite challenge.

Having caught up on the observable Herschel 400 list till later in the year I decided to work on objects on the SAC110 list that were not H400 targets. There are quite a few with many of them being quite a bit more advanced than I had thought the SAC110 list would be trying to cover. Some of the very faint nebula were dark enough so I passed them by until I really dug down and identified that I had to be right on top of the begger and then tried OIII or careful observing to dig them out. My conception before last night is they were maybe a notch harder than Messier but many were at the level of the toughest Messier objects or worse.

Notes for the night of Observations:

7Nov07 Montebello. George Feliz and myself. Great skies due to fog over San Jose. SQM: 20.87 at 10pm 21.10 1130pm, 8 stars in peg triangle or limit mag 5.8

NGC 7293 PK 36-57.1 PNG 36.1-57.1 Plan 7.5p 16.0' 13.5 4+3 STE 22 29 38.4 -20 50 12
7Nov07: 10pm This broad object being fairly low sufferd from the softer southern skies. Central area was darker than the broad outer shell with small amount of irregularity in the broad outer shell.

NGC 6503 UGC 11012 CGCG 340-19 MCG +12-17-9 Kara 837 IRAS 17499+7009 PGC 60921 Glxy 10.9b 7.1x 2.4' 123 SA(s)cd RC3 17 49 28.1 +70 08 38
7Nov07: 1124pm Very thin 4x1 elongation close to RA axis DeepMap600 draws it's orientation ok on large map, just off edge! but on North Polar Map orientation is 90 deg off and I noticed all elongated galaxies are horizontal to the map paper so maybe this is a well-known flaw in DeepMap. (Still GOTTA love that map!)

NGC 7027 PK 84-3.1 PNG 84.9-3.4 Plan 10.4p 60.0" 16.2 3a STE 21 07 01.8 +42 14 07
7Nov07: 11pm Very small but appears even brightness over it's extent

NGC 281 SH2 -184 LBN 616 BrtN 28.0x21.0' E SH2 00 53 00.0 +56 38 00
7Nov07: 850pm OIII required. Very faint and large at 20min dia. Has irregular shape. Was not detectable without OIII.

NGC 6819 Cr 403 Mel 223 Open 7.3 5.0' 929 11.0 I 1 r LYN 19 41 16.2 +40 11 32
7Nov07: 7:52pm Large and interresting cluster > 50 stars and medium range in magnitude with most about the same mag. Central group appears to me like a cup with some fill in the bottom. Also a long string leading away from the core could be a long handle.

NGC 7129 Cr 441 Open 11.5 8.0' 10 --- IV 2 p n BAA 21 42 00.0 +66 05 00
This object illuded me so I moved on. Maybe its nebuloscity is faint and requires messing with filters which I did not get to try. NGC 6572 PK 34+11.1 PNG 34.6+11.8 Plan 9.0p 11.0" 13.1 2a STE 18 12 06.4 +06 51 11
7Nov07: 740pm Even dispersion with sudden disk cutoff.

NGC 6826 PK 83+12.1 PNG 83.5+12.7 Plan 9.8p 38.0" 10.4 3a+2 STE 19 44 48.2 +50 31 31
Skipped this tonight as it is the 'Blinking Nebula' and have seen it many times. One of the best veiws for me was at High Sierra party 2 months back where Chris Kelly had it in his 14" and it was bright enough to not blink.

NGC 1232 ESO 547-14 Arp 41 MCG -4-8-32 PGC 11819 MltG 10.5b 7.4x 6.4' 70 SAB(rs)c RC3 03 09 45.3 -20 34 52
7Nov07: 1030pm Very faint but quite round with only minor core brightening

NGC 1491 LBN 704 BrtN 21.0' E LBN 04 03 36.0 +51 18 00
7Nov07: 952pm Extremely faint. +1deg from Mirfak and +6 deg +RA. Difficult target. Bairly visible with OIII filter and averted.

NGC 6210 PK 43+37.1 PNG 43.1+37.7 Plan 9.3p 30.0" 12.6 2+3b STE 16 44 29.7 +23 47 58
7Nov07: 7:00pm was unable to detect square shape. Nebuloscity seems not quit uniform perhaps.