Saturday, January 12, 2008

Cloudless Night


Tonight was clear of clouds, so I decided to bundle up, break out the telescope and take a peek at some of the nights' gems. With a little help from my astronomy software, I was able to find quite a few Messier and NGC objects. I viewed a total of 5 galaxy's, 7 globular clusters and a couple of nebulae, one those being the elusive M1 "Crab Nebula", a pretty good session for a last minute decision. Unfortunately I did not take any images of these distant beauties, but here is a snap shot of M81 and M82 two galaxies I did see.

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