Telescope Reviews: Re: Found something blinky!

Funny you should mention all these objects - I just saw all of them for the first time in about the last week. When you do find the Blue Snowball (7662) be ready for a tough time finding it. It's even smaller than 6826, but very very bright. The Saturn Nebula is a really easy find, and while you're in the area you should check out not just M72 but also M30, M15 and M2. M72 is the least impressive of the three IMO, because it appeared like a fuzzy ball with no distinct core and very few resolvable stars in my 12" Dob. M30 is smaller and dimmer than most of the Messier globulars I've seen, but it has two or three "legs" of stars coming off its north side which make for an interesting sight. M15 is very bright and conspicuous but so compact and with so few stars around its borders that the core almost looks like one star. M2 is smaller and more compact than M13 or M92, for example, but is almost as bright and looks great at high magnifications when its stars can be resolved. And obviously M73 isn't that impressive given that it's just an asterism, but it's still one more Messier to add to the list! Oh, and also check out NGC 7331 if you haven't already; it's a fairly bright, small galaxy in Pegasus that's really neat to see because it appears edge-on.

Have fun, the Pegasus/Delphinus/Equuleus area is a really good part of the sky.

--------------------
Mike
71 Messiers
155 total DSOs
6 planets

Post Extras