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2024-01-30

Condition: VG6

Location: Home, Spearfish: 44.49, -103.87

Beautiful night! Conditions started out great and slowly began diminishing as the wind picked up.

8:16PM

Target: NGC 1023

Const: Perseus

RaDec: 02h40m +39°03

Scope: AT102ED

Setting: 55x

Image

Easy to find and detect. Some-what elongated and edge-on. AV is giving me some good definition and shape. The center brightness tapers off at a steep gradient.

8:35PM

Target: NGC 1491

Const: Perseus

RaDec: 04h03m +51°18

Scope: AT102ED

Setting: 55x, Ultrablock

Image

Undetectable without the Ultrablock filter. With the Ultrablock, the glow is very evident, but the shape would not resolve without AV. AV also brought out some specks of light in the center. I'm getting an indication of noise outside of the visible glow that I've drawn, it's possible this is much larger than what I can observe.

8:54PM

Target: NGC 936

Const: Cetus

RaDec: 02h27m -01°09

Scope: AT102ED

Setting: 55x

Image

Getting the impression of a fatter ellipse. Bright speck of a core.

9:16PM

Target: SAO 129989

Const: Cetus

RaDec: 02h35m -09°26

Scope: AT102ED

Setting: 55x

Image

Yellow with maybe a touch of orange. All the stars in the FOV have the shape of a doctor's stethoscope.