Aug. 11-12, 07 Lassen Park

by Glenn Talbert

Average 2-6 meteors a minute with some pauses. This one meteor left a contrail for a solid 15 seconds! I took my telescope in the case of better to have it and not need it rather than need it and not have.

Telescope: C9.25"
Winds: Calm, less than 5mph.

Objects seen;
Plantary Nebula - NGC 6302.
Galaxies - NGC 6907, IC 5046/47

NGC 6302: Plantary nebula in Scorpius. The Bug Nebula. With OIII filter using 138x. Fairly elongated, unusual off-centered "core" area. Very bright, center is very condense, almost stellar. Elongation is east to west, eastern extention abruptly fades and the western extention longer.

NGC 6907: Galaxy in Capricornus. Very bright mag 11.3, fairly small, elongated east west. No spiral structure seen. Slew one fov south and two IC galaxies come into view. IC 4999, fairly bright mag 13.5, and IC 5005 extremely faint, mag 13.6. The difference of the magitudes between these two IC galaxies is .1, and shows a significant difference in brightness. Guess the sbr is a factor here.

IC 5046/47: Galaxy pair in Microscopium. The pair is align north-south, the northern galaxy, IC 5047 is a mag 13.2, pretty bright, fairly small, round. IC 5046 pretty faint mag 13.3, low surface brightness, moderate in size, round. DSS shows edge-on.

Glenn T.
Chico, CA.