What a great evening. I borrowed a copy of the S&T Pocket Sky Atlas and cruised Pegasus and Eridanus for galaxies, especially in pairs. I also spent a bit of time hitting the highlights of Aquila.
There were a lot more people on-site, being the weekend finally. Some Boy Scouts came through early in the evening, but didn't linger. After a marathon evening the night before, staying up past 4am, I decided to turn in a bit earlier (1:30) to prepare for a long final night. Keep in mind that I've been getting up early every morning to go play with the NC Symphony, so sleep deprivation is becoming a real problem.
I did most of my observing tonight with my Pentax 10XW, which puts me at 205X magnification. Under these skies, it seems to be a sweet spot of contrast and detail, especially on these small objects. Other than that, the vast majority of my observing is with a Nagler 17 T4, which comes out to 121X. It's been pretty easy to hop around with my finder and the star atlas, landing right on objects and thus being able to keep the high power in all the time.
It wasn't quite as cold as the past 4 nights, which is a welcome change!
My list:
M13
Ring Nebula
M92
NGC 6772 (planetary nebula)
NGC 6781 (planetary nebula)
NGC 6760 (small but nice globular)
Veil Nebula
Dumbell Nebula
NGC 6940 (open cluster)
NGC 7339/7332 (very nice edge-on galaxy pair)
NGC 7789 (open cluster)
NGC 7448 (galaxy)
NGC 7454 (galaxy)
NGC 7436, 7437, 7438 (galaxy group)
NGC 7469 / IC 5283 (galaxy pair)
NGC 663 (my favorite small open cluster- highly recommended for scopes of any size)
NGC 7479 (face-on spiral galaxy)
NGC 7625 (galaxy)
NGC 1535 (small, bright planetary nebula)
NGC 1232 (face-on spiral galaxy)
NGC 1325/1332 (galaxy pair)
NGC 1400/1407 (galaxy pair)
Sculptor Galaxy (lots of detail to be seen, and very expansive- the view is almost 3D, as if looking down at an angle at the face of the galaxy)
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