Had a nice hour over by Boscabel House with the Opticrom 10x50s. With Jupiter in Libra, I did a tour of Libra, Serpens and Ophiuchus. I found M5 easily, a very bright globular cluster. Far less easy to find were M10 and M12 in Ophiuchus. Very, very faint indeed, and I wouldn’t have seen them had I not known where to look. I’d certainly not have found them by chance, whilst scanning the sky. Special mention goes to the fantastically named, very, very red star, Yed Prior, which means ‘the hand’, according to Wikki.
Galaxies M81 & M82 found easily, as were globular clusters M13 and M92. Loving the Opticroms!
Current Messier list, (which I’d put in a small font size if I knew how!)
- M1 Supernova Remnant in Taurus (Crab Nebula) (A)
- M2 Globular Cluster in Aquarius (A)
- M3 Globular Cluster in Canes Venatici 19/04/18
- M5 Globular Cluster in Serpens
- M8 Diffuse Nebula in Sagittarius (A)
- M10 Globular Cluster in Ophiuchus
- M12 Globular Cluster in Ophiuchus
- M13 Globular Cluster in Hercules (‘the ‘Great Cluster’)
- M16 Open Cluster in Sagittarius (A)
- M20 Nebula in Sagitta (Triffid) (A)
- M24 ‘Star Field’ in Sagittarius (A)
- M27 Dumbell Nebula in Vupecula
- M31 Galaxy (Andromeda Galaxy)
- M32 Galaxy (Andromeda ‘companion’)
- M33 Spiral Galaxy in Triangulum
- M34 Cluster in Perseus (A)
- M35 Open Cluster in Gemini
- M36 Cluster Auriga
- M37 Cluster Auriga
- M38 Cluster Auriga
- M39 Open Star field in Cygnus
- M41 Open Cluster in Canes Major
- M42 Orion Nebula
- M43 Nebula in Orion
- M44 Beehive Cluster
- M45 Pleiades Open Cluster
- M47 Open Cluster Puppis 2018
- M 51 Galaxy in Canes Venatici (Whirlpool)
- M52 Open Cluster in Cassiopeia
- M54 Globular Cluster in Coma Berenices 19/04/18
- M56 Globular Cluster in Lyra (A)
- M57 Ring Nebula Lyra
- M63 Galaxy in Coma Berenecis (Blackeye) (A)
- M64 Galaxy in Coma Berenicis (A)
- M65 Galaxy in Leo
- M66 Galaxy in Leo
- M67 Open Cluster Cancer
- M76 Planetary nebula in Perseus (Little Dumbell)
- M81 Galaxy in Ursa Major (Bode’s)
- M82 Galaxy in Ursa Major
- M84 Galaxy in Virgo 2018
- M86 Galaxy in Virgo 2018
- M92 Globular Cluster Hercules
- M95 Galaxy in Leo
- M96 Galaxy in Leo
- M103 Cluster in Cassiopeia
- M104 Galaxy in Virgo 2018
- M106 Spiral Galaxy in Canes Venatici (A)
- M108 Barred Spiral Galaxy in Ursa Major (A)
- M109 Galaxy in Ursa Major (A)
I Need my Space 