10pm – 6:30am
Focus position main scope 12,323
Catch up images from last night include
- NGC 6188 Dragons of Ara – 24 x 300s
- M30 – 10 x 300s
- M11 – 12 x 300s
New objects for tonight below
- Comet Olbers (Various images)
- M54 Glob – 24 x 300s
- M14 Glob – 12 x 300s
Well after a great day out visiting amongst other telescopes the MONS where we have observed before, I setup and waiting for the last night to become dark. The night was truly stunning at 0.7’ seeing, warm and calm. Low humidity was effecting us, else all the other elements were playing ball. I setup and captured the Moon
Moon
before heading over to Comet Olbers first.
Comet Olbers
After this I set a run on the Dragons again so to add to my data from the other night.
NGC 6188 Dragons
Once this was set and the rest of the plan was in place I headed off to bed at 1am and left the setup capturing some additional data on both M30
M30 Globular Cluster
and M11.
M11 Globular Cluster
I then went on to image M54 which is really small at 1.6 arc minutes.
M54 Globular Cluster
Lastly I grabbed some data on M14 which is a slightly larger globular cluster at 2.6 arc minutes.
M14 Globular Cluster
In the morning I reviewed the data and unfortunately due to the altitude of some of the objects I did have to reject quite a few frames, however I did capture enough to create a decent image.