August 1, 2009: GSSP OR

Richard Navarrete

I've finally gotten around to working on my observing logs from GSSP. I got up to Adin a day early to help set-up, and I left a day early. Out of my four days there, I managed two good nights of observing. The first night I just poked around at bright objects with my TV 101, and of course we had the one night of rain.

36 new objects over the course of the two nights, 16 of them from the Herschel 2500 list, plus lots of un-logged eye candy.

18" Obsession and a bunch of Naglers.

Richard Navarrete

NGC 5732      Bootes        Galaxy  13.7   "Fairly dim, small, elongated, brighter core."
UGC 9473      Bootes        Galaxy  13.7   Small and faint.
NGC 5754      Bootes        Galaxy  13.9   Largest and brightest in group.
NGC 5752      Bootes        Galaxy  16.6   "Faint, very small. Member 5754 group."
NGC 5753      Bootes        Galaxy  14.9   Small and faint. Member of 5754 group.
NGC 5755      Bootes        Galaxy  15.8   Extremely small and faint. Member of the 5754 group.
NGC 5698      Draco         Galaxy  13.8   "Faint, small and a bit extended."
NGC 6552      Draco         Galaxy  13.8   Small and elongated. Near the Cat's Eye Nebulae.
NGC 5730      Draco         Galaxy  14.6   Elongated. Paired with 5731.
NGC 5731      Draco         Galaxy  14.1   Elongated. Paired with 5730.
NGC 5735      Bootes        Galaxy  13.5   "Medium size, round, not to faint at 103x."
NGC 5737      Bootes        Galaxy  14.3   "Faint, small and round."
IC 1051       Bootes        Galaxy  15.3   "Very faint, small."
IC 1047       Bootes        Galaxy  15.4   "Very faint, small."
NGC 5760      Bootes        Galaxy  14.2   "Very faint, small and round."
NGC 5710      Bootes        Galaxy  13.9   "Faint, round with a stellar core. Paired with 5711. There's a double star between them."
NGC 5711      Bootes        Galaxy  14.9   Very faint. Paired with 5710.
NGC 6884      Cygnus        PN      12.6   "Small, round disk. Filter not needed but it was fun to blink."
NGC 6914      Cygnus        Nebula        Large area of nebulosity. Bright star in field is involved. Three patches.
NGC 6891      Delphinus     PN      11.7   Round and bright with a halo.
NGC 6803      Aquila        PN      11.3   "Small, round, fairly bright."
NGC 5249      Bootes        Galaxy  14     "Very dim, small, not quite round. Brighter core."
NGC 5207      Virgo         Galaxy  14     "Elongated, mottled. Magnitude 12 star is on one edge."
NGC 5221      Virgo         Galaxy  13.8   "A bit extended, medium size. 1 of 3."
NGC 5222      Virgo         Galaxy  14.1   "Round, not too faint. 1 of 3."
NGC 5230      Virgo         Galaxy  12.8   "One of Three. Brightest in the group. Large, roundish with a brighter core."
NGC 5185      Virgo         Galaxy  14.1   "Small, dim, elongated. Near the end of a chain of four dim stars."
NGC 5181      Virgo         Galaxy  14.4   "Small, dim, round with a stellar core."
MCG 9-19-24   Ursa Major    Galaxy  15.3   Extremely faint and small.
MCG 9-19-23   Ursa Major    Galaxy  14.8   Extremely faint and small.
MCG 9-19-25   Ursa Major    Galaxy  14.7   Extremely faint and small.
NGC 5671      Ursa Minor    Galaxy  14.1   "Very small, very faint."
NGC 5712      Ursa Minor    Galaxy  15.5   "Very small, extremely faint at 172x."
IC 4470       Ursa Minor    Galaxy  15     Looked like a galaxy within an open cluster.
NGC 6765      Lyra          PN      12.5   Near M56. Oblong shape and brighter on one edge. OIII help.Very small.
NGC 6791      Lyra          OC      9.5    Nice rich field. Many chains of stars and dark lanes