IAS/SDAS Observing on Saturday 3rd

:laugh: yea, many years ago we had a similar visitation by the gardai, undercover too, so we didnt know who was pulling up until they identified themselves. :huh:

Michael

Congrats on eyeballing 3C273 - this might sound stupid but it has never occurred to me that this would be visible visually - I've always assummed that this was an imaging target only - looking up the visible magnitude I see that it should be observable.

Depsite the non-spectacular description that you give, it must have been quite thrilling to have seen it and appreciate it for what it was.

The number of people on this planet that have actually seen it with their own eyes must be quite small.

Mark

michael_murphy wrote:

Hi Dave,

It looked like a faint star. A bit dissapointing for an object 2.4 Billion light years away spewing out vast amounts of energy:laugh: .
Michael.

so was it through a big scope you saw it through ?

Hi all

It could be clearly seen with averted vision through an 8" SCT. Bear in mind though that these were excellently dark skies:)

dbran

Sounds like a great night, sorry I couldn't make it, I had to be up early this morning to pursue my other crazy hobby in golf:woohoo:

Is the place you found across the road from the Trooperstown Lodge hotel? There's a coucil depot, or something like that, there?

Paul

mjc wrote:

Congrats on eyeballing 3C273 - this might sound stupid but it has never occurred to me that this would be visible visually - I've always assummed that this was an imaging target only - looking up the visible magnitude I see that it should be observable.
Mark

Hi Mark,

One of the reasons it was on my list was I had read somewhere that it was the most distant object that could be seen in a 'regular' scope.

Dave: I was using an 11" SCT.

Michael.