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Mr. Bill
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Reged: 02/09/05
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I posted this over on the Deep Sky forum a couple of weeks ago...the response was pretty underwhelming (one reply from Glenn LeDrew) which is typical for binocular observing reports there....
"This morning (Sept 28) was pretty good from my backyard with SQM 21.5+ from 1-4 AM.
Here's a really interesting field observed with new 10x50 (6.3 degree fov) Fujinon binoculars mounted on a Paragon P-mount. In Cygnus, the Cocoon nebula I.5146 at one end of the dark nebula B168 (Windsock) and on the other end M39 and NGC 7082, both open clusters ALL in the same fov. Very pretty.
Another interesting object viewed with my BT100 binoculars and 24 Pan eps (25x) with a UHC filter on my dominate eye ep was Sh2-129 in Cepheus. A very pretty semicircular patchy wreath wrapped around a double star with nebulosity involved. This precedes I.1396.
Sweeping both binoculars through the Cygnus-Lacerta-Cepheus MW region revealed complexity of dark/bright nebulosity and starfields that no chart can reveal....binoculars provide the right image scale for seeing these subtle features that would be missed at higher power."
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10x50 Fujinon FMT-SX binos
15x70 AP binos + Paragon p-mount
Oberwerk 100BT 45 degree + Hercules fork mount
120mm f/5 Orion achromat + Moonlite focuser
140mm f/5.7 Vixen NeoAchro Petzvel refractor
150mm f/6.5 Antares achromat
150mm f/8 homemade achromat....EE Barnard MW Sweeper
8 inch newt with f/5 Swayze mirror
10 inch f/4.7 Orion newt + Paracorr
15 inch f/5 Discovery split tube
35mm Pan, 26mm Nagler, 17mm Nagler, 13mm Ethos, 8mm Ethos
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Mark9473
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I'd love to see the Cocoon. Have sweeped over where I think it is, expecting it to pop into view just like on the pictures.
You really nailed the essence with this sentence:
"Sweeping both binoculars through the Cygnus-Lacerta-Cepheus MW region revealed complexity of dark/bright nebulosity and starfields that no chart can reveal...."
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Mark
Leica 8x20; Vixen 8x42; Swift 8.5x44, 10x50 and 20x80; TS 7x50; Orion 15x63
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ronharper
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I love this area, but never know what half the stuff I see is, or even if the things I see are really "things". Your report might inspire me to get more analytical. Thanks.
Ron
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GlennLeDrew
professor emeritus
Reged: 06/18/08
Posts: 577
Loc: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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On the same night for which I recently posted a report re. faint Sh2- nebulae seen with binos, I also tried to see the Cocoon with both my 11x50s and Doug's filtered 22x100s. No Joy! And this in spite of knowing *exactly* where to look amidst the un-obscured stars immediately surrounding the 'head' of the cometary cloud B168, in which the Cocoon resides.
Now, immediately adjacent to B168's 'head' is a milky patch of light from a slightly brighter patch of milky way starlight. I sometimes wonder if any observers are mistaking this for the Cocoon???
But I did make a successful observation of Sh2-129 with the filtered 22x100s. I have to say that until you'd reported seeing this one, Bill, I'd never have imagined it could ever be detected visually.
The rich tapestry of dark nebulosity all over the milky way is indeed beyond the capacity of any star chart to faithfully reproduce. With the exception of one digital chart, that is...
Currently Starry Night Pro Plus uses the all-sky image mosaic produced originally for the now-defunct Desktop Universe planetarium software. It shows stars to 14th magnitude, and it covers the entire sky at a scale of 12 arcseconds/pixel. This is perfect for observers using any size binocular, or even telescopes for that matter. If you haven't seen it in action, you should check it out.
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Mr. Bill
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I love this area, but never know what half the stuff I see is, or even if the things I see are really "things". Your report might inspire me to get more analytical. Thanks.
Ron
Long exposure photos of the areas of interest are better guides to what you are viewing...I particularly like Atlas of Deep Sky Splendors that is a set of Schmidt photographs that are scaled very well to match the views in my BT100 binoculars at 25x.
Obviously, there is plenty of material available on the internet, especially EE Barnard's "A Photographic Atlas of Selected Regions of the Milky Way."
www.library.gatech.edu/barnard
Meso Astronomy observers unite..... 
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10x50 Fujinon FMT-SX binos
15x70 AP binos + Paragon p-mount
Oberwerk 100BT 45 degree + Hercules fork mount
120mm f/5 Orion achromat + Moonlite focuser
140mm f/5.7 Vixen NeoAchro Petzvel refractor
150mm f/6.5 Antares achromat
150mm f/8 homemade achromat....EE Barnard MW Sweeper
8 inch newt with f/5 Swayze mirror
10 inch f/4.7 Orion newt + Paracorr
15 inch f/5 Discovery split tube
35mm Pan, 26mm Nagler, 17mm Nagler, 13mm Ethos, 8mm Ethos
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