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Randy Cordell
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Reged: 09/16/07
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Loc: Cedar Rapids IA
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Re: small binocs M44 star counts and galaxies
05/09/08 11:58 PM
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Hi Ed,
I finally got a sky I could work with in conjunction with a non-work night. Whoo-HOO! So, based on your chart for Ursa Minor, I have a Mag 4.3 sky here tonight with a waxing crescent moon of 34% sitting just outside of Cancer. Moderate light pollution and observing from my driveway. I was surprised that the sky would actually be considered mag 4.! I would have expected 3 something. 4 is not good! So thanks for that tool as well.
Okay. So with my mounted GO 15x70's I saw 30 stars within the circle boundary on your chart. I changed to my 7x50's mounted and I saw 25.
The Cephus asterism is obvious. I forgot you mentioned a Cassiopeia and so didn't look for that one. Up this thread where I made reference to a small triangular grouping that I said was in the "center"....that is the three at the peak of Cephus "roof" and not in the center at all.
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Randy Cordell
Meade StarFinder 10" F/4.7 Dob, Telrad, Craford, Fans
Bogen 3040 and 3050 Tripods with Orion Paragon-Plus Parallelogram or 3047 head
Oberwerk Mariner 7x50
Pentax PCF WP 8x40
Garrett Optical Gemini 15x70 WP-IF
Laptop running Kubuntu and Stellarium 0.9.1
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