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Summarize your sky-observations
Here I would like to invite one and all to share their sky-observations, be it ANYTHING, naked-eye or binocular or telescopic. This is NOT to compare but it's to have a good discussion about the variety and diversity of objects that each person has, so that the other can try to observe it the earliest. Please do share, ask queries about any observing related topics you have..as sky-observing is the best part of astronomy! :) Nothing can get better than the connection with cosmos that you feel when standing below the night sky and gazing upwards at the bountiful of stars twinkling about your head :x
So let the discussions about the sky and it's infinity of celestial objects begin...
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My favourite objects happen to be globulars. Love resolving them at high powers. What I like most is the way the reveal their beauty going from just a fuzzy maningless patch at low powers to being completely resolved to downright spectacular starry-flowers at high powers.
Not a fan of the faint stuff. . That which troubles you to see it.
Fan of everything else..All messier opens, Resolvable and bright globulars, All Supernova Remnants, Bright galaxies.
Favourites - Everything in Sgr, Leo triplet, The Virgo cluster,Milky way opens in the north, All northern galaxies, Sombrero, M79, M2, M4, Omega Centauri, M15.. The list is endless.
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None other than the horsehead. Trying to observe it visually is quite a task. I have sensed it but have never been able to make out the shape... well someday :(
Totally agree there with whoever else is also interested in globulars. Globulars are more fascinating even than galaxies because galaxies generally come in the "faint and very dimly visible" which makes observing for a newbie or even an expert quite boring!
But globulars are one genre of objects which will entice everyone, their varying appearance, shape, sizes and brightness. Some are the bigger ones which are pretty bright, a feast to the human eyes, where even novice eyes can make out lots more stars than it being just a fuzzy patch of light. As you increase the magnification, number of stars resolved increases. Thats some beauty in itself!
On the other hand you have the horribly faint and small looking meaningless fuzzy patches of light, globulars again, which are remniscient of undiscovered comets in the eyepiece field of view. Anyone can confuse them with a new comet discovery and report them! That's also some beauty in itself.
I'm an obsessed fanatic of both the kinds equally, dim and bright celestial objects, and I am not capable of biasing between the different wonders the night-sky has to offer. Truly, I extremely crave for faint and bright celestial objects equally and they enchant me like nothing else at all in this Universe!!! But frankly, the dimmer the objects the more enticing, exciting and rewarding to me it is..he he he..
Maybe its my inexperince, but I do enjoy seeing open clusters and trying to identify them, but genuinely speaking I do love to watch nebulosity.
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