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cprroy73
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Reged: 05/26/08
Posts: 14
Loc: Lake Charles, Louisiana
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I haven't had good luck with the weather as of late. So I have not been able to do much viewing. Only twice in the past 2weeks. One of the nights had a haze so it was not great. 2 days ago though, I decided to give it a shot for a couple hours before bed. I recently fully flocked my z10 and added secondary knobs aswell as the primary. I also added the stiffer primary springs.
Being a noob I have only seen a handful of objects, so I wanted to try for some new blood. I really like planetarys so I thought I would try for ngc 6826(blinking). I tried to find this one before but could not nail it.
After studying stellarium and my telrad charts using both the telrad and the finder. I found what appeared to be just another star. Using the 20mm plossl and watching carefully it just suddenly appeared with nebulosity. It looked greenish and very bright and could make the central with higher powers up to 6mm.(thats the highest I have right now.)It was football shaped and I could make out very faint structure around the star and yes it blinked with direct vision. Very interesting planetary!
Turning to the SE I also found M7 and ngc 6231 two near by open clusters. When I first found M7 in the 20mm I was amazed at how beautiful the cluster is. Both were nice actually.
The moon was full and washing everything out though. I tried for the butterfly but could not find it immediately so it was time to call it quits.
Over all for me it was a great night and can't wait for more clear skys. I really need to get out to my dark location with this scope. I have never looked through a scope at a truely dark site ever. Just hard for me to find the time.
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Zhummel 10" dob
Meade 4000 plossl's
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ScottAz
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Reged: 02/06/05
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Loc: Millington, TN
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Nice report, and congratulations on getting out and competing with the full moon! Good for you! Sometimes, I do the same thing ... just give up on finding clear, dark skies and TAKE the time from something else even if it means observing from my light polluted and south-obstructed backyard. And, if no one's mentioned it: Welcome to Cloudy Nights! 
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Scott Azmus
SV80BV, NexStar 11, & 18" Obsession 
Many Views Yield Truth
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Josh U
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Reged: 07/10/07
Posts: 40
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Hey there!
When you get out to a dark site, by all means look up the Veil Nebula. (A filter helps, too.) It will knock your socks off. I've got a z10 as well, and looking at the Veil for the first time from a semi-dark site through an Orion Skyglow filter...Well, I almost fell over!
Have fun!
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"How you do anything is how you do everything."
Zhumell 10" dob
80mm Refractor
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scopethis
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Reged: 05/30/08
Posts: 188
Loc: Kingman, Ks
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If you're gonna go after planetaries, get either a narrowband or an OIII filter. There are some I've had in the FOV with my 10" SCT and could not see without a filter.
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cprroy73
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Reged: 05/26/08
Posts: 14
Loc: Lake Charles, Louisiana
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Thanks for the tips and the welcome. A filter is next on my list. Sometimes I just have to take what I can get around here as far as weather goes. It's seems to stay around 95+ with 90% humidity. Can't wait for that first cold front, but it could be a long wait.
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Zhummel 10" dob
Meade 4000 plossl's
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