Hunting Galaxy in Leo

March 18  2006 Recently i went to my sister in law house in the country, got a  little darker sky so i tried a few galaxies in Leo, M66 and M65. Both were visible by adverted vision in my 20x80 Skymaster. went on and aimed at M51 in Canes Vinatici and sadly i never had a chance on this one, never a hint  or anything. Got to redo this in much darker skies.

 

Hunting Vesta

February 24 & 25 i've been hunting Vesta with success may i add.  Vesta is in Gemini this year and very easy to spot with a visual magnitude 6,5.  Using my Oberwerks 15x70 i was able to follow Vesta in her journey heading, (what seemed to me *North*)

Using my StarryNight software i was able to prepare a few more of these celestial object to hunt, here comes Juno, right now Juno is in Orion the Hunter at a visual magnitude of 8,26 so should be a very interesting target for my 15x70 Oberwerks.

Keep you folks updated! Clear sky!

 

Saturday night May 27 2006

Just got in from a very short observations session, really sad cause i've been waiting this one for a while. I'll try tomorrow night and hope for better skies. Still had time to view Jupiter and three moons, Io, Ganymede and Callisto.  By the time of observation Europa was hidden by Jupiter. Also say a little star sought of Jupiter, HIP71420 at 8.25m.