| Time: | 23:00 - 04:00 EDT |
| Location: | The Farm |
| Telescope: | Meade 8-inch LX2 SCT |
| Activity: | Deep Sky Observing |
Arrived at The Farm around 22:00 with Walter MacDonald and Doug Clapp. Excellent night -
warm, no dew at all and very still. Observed
a total of 21 "new" objects on this
night. The objects were all galaxies in Leo Minor, Coma
Bernices, and Leo.
NGC 3003, NGC 3021, NGC 3432, NGC 3430, NGC 3424, NGC
3413, NGC 3395, NGC 3396, NGC 3412, NGC 3377, NGC 4251,
NGC 4448, NGC 4245, NGC 4274, NGC 4283, NGC 4278, NGC
4314, NGC 4150, NGC 4559, NGC 4565, NGC 4494.
| Time: | 22:30 - 00:00 EDT |
| Location: | York Region Forest |
| Telescope: | Meade 8-inch LX2 SCT |
| Activity: | Deep Sky Observing |
This site is located on Hwy 48, just north of Aurora
side road in Markham. Several people were there including
Norm Folkers. The site
suffers from suburban light pollution. Observed 1 "new" deep sky
object - NGC 4111, a galaxy in Canes Venatici.
| Time: | 22:30 - 03:00 EDT |
| Location: | The Farm |
| Telescope: | Meade 8-inch LX2 SCT |
| Activity: | Deep Sky Observing |
Arrived at The Farm around 19:45 with Walter MacDonald.
This is as close as I've come to a comet discovery. All
night I was observing deep sky objects in Sagittarius.
About 10 days later (in early August), Comet Hale-Bopp
was discovered near a brighter deep sky object in
Sagittarius!!! Had I covered a larger area of Sagittarius
while observing on that night, I would have most likely
spotted the comet first!
I observed 11 "new" deep
sky objects, all open clusters in Sagittarius: Ru
131, Cr 347, Cr 351, Tr 31, Bochum 14, NGC 6583, NGC
6595, NGC 6589, NGC 6590, Tr 33, NGC 6507.
Starfest '95
| Time: | 22:00 - 00:00 EDT |
| Location: | Mount Forest, Ontario |
| Telescope: | Meade 8-inch LX2 SCT |
| Activity: | Deep Sky Observing |
| Cloudy all night on both Thursday, Aug. 24
and Saturday, Aug. 26. On Friday night, Aug. 25,
some clouds in the evening, then completely
clouded over around midnight. On Friday night I
observed Comet Hale-Bopp, which was about 1
degree south of NGC 6224. It was fairly bright,
round, diffuse, no distinct nucleus, no tail. I also observed 2 "new"
objects - NGC 6888 and NGC 7129. Here I am, posing with my wife Elsie, at Starfest 95. |
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| No. of observing sessions | 4 |
| Approx. telescope time | 13 hours |
| "New" deep sky objects found | 35 |
| No. of comets seen | 1 |
| No. of auroral displays seen | 0 |
| Total deep sky objects observed by end of '95 | 590 |
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |