24th August 2009

Hi all

Another clear night within a week, that must be a some kind of record:P . Anyway, got out again, luckily I'm on holidays and grabbed some more sketches.

Hope you like them.

M39



A nice easy cluster to open up the night.

M56



I found it difficult to resolve stars in this globular. It's not a huge object and tends to get get lost in the Milky Way.

M15



I spent the best part of an hour on M15 as the more I looked the more I could see. One thing that I did notice is that the core of this globular is offset from the centre. With many globulars the core seems to sit at the heart of the cluster surrounded by a circular, or nearly cirular, halo of fainter stars. Again it wasn't easy to resvole individual stars within the cluster.

There was a lot of moisture in the air and around 2am it looked like a bank of high thin cloud rolled in, Jupiter took on a faint and fuzzy appearance.

Thanks for looking.

Paul

Nice globs there, Paul.

I had high thin clouds till about midnight, at which point I gave up and went to bed. At least I was rewarded with some sun in the morning (see prominence thread).

Cheers,
-- Jeff.

Yeah, me too, I got a fantastic view of M15 last night until about 11pm when the humid high clouds came in. I like you sketches Paul, better than anything I could produce

Keith..