Thursday, November 11, 2010

M33 - Oct. 17th

The Triangulum Galaxy (M33) is located on the Triangulum Constellation and lies between 2.4 to 3.0 million light years from Earth. M33 shines at mag. 5.7 and was discovered by Charles Messier in 1764. It is believed to have been first spotted in 1654 by Hodierna.
Under dark skies it can be seen with the naked eye.

Oct. 17th
10x 600" at -20ºC
FS102NSV + ST2000XM + C Astronomik IIc
Flats only. Indeciso
Maxim + CS4
reduced to 800x600

Friday, November 5, 2010

Jupiter, Nov 4th

Though seeing and transparency were far from good (fair, to be honest), I gave it a shot at Jupiter.