2 hours of cloudless viewing from 12MN to 2AM.
Learnt a lot about the capabilities of my scope tonight.
I think it performs much better with lighter eyepieces when slewing between objects.
This was the first time I’ve been out under the Summer stars ever! It wasn’t entirely dark even at 2AM – This meant it was difficult to see faint galaxies well but Open Clusters, and Planetary Nebulae were fine. Globular clusters were a bit duller than normal.
New objects seen (* = favourite):
Messier Objects
M27 PN * Dumbbell Planetary Nebula
M32 GLX
M71 GC
M110 GLX
Caldwell Objects
Caldwell 10 OC
Caldwell 12 GLX
Caldwell 13 OC * Phi Cas Open Cluster
Caldwell 16 OC
Caldwell 17 GLX
Caldwell 18 GLX
Caldwell 22 PN * Blue Snowball Planetary Nebula
Caldwell 23 GLX
Caldwell 28 OC
Caldwell 37 OC
Herschel Objects
H2_751 (NGC 5857) GLX
H2_752 (NGC 5859) GLX
H7_045 (NGC 0436) OC
H7_049 (NGC 0637) OC
H7_046 (NGC 0654) OC
H7_056 (NGC 7790) OC
H8_079 (NGC 0129) OC
H8_064 (NGC 0381) OC
H8_065 (NGC 0659) OC
H8_066 (NGC 1027) OC
H8_007 (NGC 6940) OC*
NGC 0225 OC
Others
NGC 0189 OC
Collinder 399 “The Coathanger”