The Astrogoddess was giving an account of adventures in the Carson
National Forest ...
>I moved on to NGC 6445, a rather large and bright PN in Sagittarius.
Now you gotta run right back there with a lower magnification.
There's a bright globular in the very same field, 6440. Very neat
view; they're less than a degree apart.
That said, I have a complaint. Novelty is everything to you fellas,
idnit? I need to change gender. Here I wear my fingers to the bone
writing two OR's and get one cool comment from the Beastmaster. Not a
whiff even from Gottlieb about 6380, our problem object. OK, I was
willing to let this go, but here Gleason comments on a note in Jane's
OR and clearly hadn't read my comment on the very same objects, the
day before. Gleason was all ...
>Did you know that B92 and B93 in M24 are also nearby dark nebula
>worth hunting down?
And I'd been ...
>Spent plenty of time staring at the Small Star Cloud, M24. Just
>never get enough of that field, with all those stars and its
>imbedded open cluster and two Barnard nebulae, just loaded.
Sharper than a serpent's tooth, John. Ole DDK just isn't cute enough anymore.
-- Jamie Dillon <mavericks@No-Spam> <*> http://www.winepress.com/jd1.htm >TAC, http://observers.org "Kepler broke the ancient spell of perfect circles and uniform motion that had mesmerized astronomers for centuries." Michael Zeilik, U of NM.Received on Tue Aug 10 23:47:45 2004