If you can, try an OIII filter on M27 and the Veil Nebula. You won't believe
what you can see!
Michelle Stone
Custom Telescopes by Plettstone
http://www.plettstone.com/telescopes
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> From: sf-bay-tac-bounces@No-Spam [mailto:sf-bay-tac-bounces@No-Spam]On
> Behalf Of Wolf Doug
> Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2003 1:13 PM
> To: sf-bay-tac@No-Spam
> Subject: [TAC] Observing at Montebello on 28-October-2003
>
>
> Hey Gang,
>
> I've been a lurker for awhile and finally decided
> to come out into the dark. :-)
>
> Went to Montebello for the first time on Tuesday
> night and was lucky enough to run into Bob Jardine and
> another fine gent named John, and they were kind
> enough to let me tag along on their permit for the
> evening.
>
> Seeing was so-so, but there were targets a-plenty.
> Michelle and I managed some decent views of M27 (which
> responds *very* nicely to a Lumicon UHC filter), the
> ever-popular NGC-253 near-edge on spiral galaxy in
> Sculptor, the nearby NGC-288 which is a BEAUTIFUL (but
> *faint*) globular. This glob is kind of special in
> that the core doesn't seem to be overly dense,
> resulting in the abililty to resolve quite a few
> stars. We also wandered to M92 in Hercules and John
> and I spent a bit of time trying to optically chase
> down the Veil Nebula. This is *FAINT!* Managed to
> find a few whisps with the help of the UHC filter, but
> plan to try again from a darker site.
>
> Bob & John, I wanted to thank you both again for
> helping me finally compare my optics to other scopes.
> Bob, the Takahashi 5-mil eyepiece is *wonderful* and I
> plan on getting one.
>
> I'll definitely be making more mid-week appearences
> at MB. Can't beat it for a 1/2 hour mid-week drive!
>
> -- Doug
>
>
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