Object Name |
Location | Telescope | Date | Observation |
Comet_Lovejoy | Little Tycho | C-8 | 2015/Jan/10 18:40:00 | A starlike 9.5mv nuclues was surrounded by a gray greenish circular haze about 10'in diameter.
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Comet_Wirtanen | Little Tycho | C-8 | 2018/Dec/18 22:15:00 | 04:14:00 31:48:00. A dim hazy disk about 10' in diameter, brighter towards its center. Tonight's bright moon did not help its visibility.
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Comet_Holmes | P | C-8 | 2007/Oct/31 19:30:00 | The entire comet was about 2.5 mv. It was 15 arc minutes in total size. There was a nucleus, coma and tail, all roughly concentric.
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Jupiter | B | C-8 | 2007/Aug/06 22:00:00 | Jupiter, at this low altitude and seen through very hazy skies, exibits a red tinge around its south pole, and a blue tinge around its north pole. |
Jupiter | Little Tycho | C-8 | 2018/Apr/21 2:04:29 | The red spot was plainly visible, and reddish, for the first time in my observing experience. Seeing was about Pickering 7.
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Comet_Lulin | B | C-8 | 2009/Feb/24 03:30:00 | A fuzzy patch about 10' in size. No green seen, or a spiky tail. Looked like a bright E2 galaxy with a starlike nucleus. About 6mv. The comet moved about 15' in half an hour.
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Saturn | P | C-8 | 2007/Apr/20 10:30:00 | Saw the 4 easily visible moons, Dione, Tethys, Rhea, and Titan. Enceladus was glimpsed. |
Saturn | P | C-8 | 2008/Apr/29 21:45:00 | Enceladus was barely glimpsed, as I knew where it was. Titan and Rhea were easy, and Dione was unusual, as there was a star just above it, the same brightness as Dione, and separated from it by about a Saturn diameter. The star was not found on Wikisky or Kstars.
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Uranus | B | C-8 | 2006/Dec/23 19:30:00 | A pale blue disc. Triton not visible. |
Uranus | B | C-8 | 2006/Oct/13 23:00:00 | A tiny, bright, blue disc. |
Uranus | B | C-8 | 2007/Sep/16 01:00:00 | A bright, pale blue green disc. There were no sign of any moons. |
Uranus | B | C-8 | 2007/Nov/23 20:45:00 | A tiny pale blue featureless disk with the 6mm at 339x. It appeared about 2/3 the size of the full moon. I couldn't make out any of its moons, either. |
Uranus | Little Tycho | C-8 | 2018/Nov/28 22:24:45 | A uniform blue disk, dancing in the Pickering 3 seeing was all I could expect.
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Bolide | Pinnacles | Naked eye | 2011/May/29 22:58:45 | A brighter than full moon bolide. I thought it was an approaching car. About a 5 second flight, I only saw the last second, as it streaked through Cancer and vanished in Leo.
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Neptune | B | C-8 | 2006/Oct/21 20:00:00 | A faint, pale blue disk at 500x. It looks star like at 50x.
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Asteroid_Toutatis | LBRP | C-11 | 2012/Dec/13 19:25:58 | A ~10mv stellar dot slowing moving through the field, at approximately 2h 17m +6.00°.
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Mars | B | C-8 | 2007/Sep/18 04:00:00 | Mars was distinctly gibbous, with very low contrast brown markings on a crisply delimited disc. The north polar cap perhaps glimpsed, if at all. It was tiny. There was a faint (~11th mv) star about 2 Mars diameters to the east of the planet. |
Mars | B | C-8 | 2007/Oct/21 03:00:00 | The planet looked slightly gibbous, and mostly light orange brown in color. There were some dusky markings of low contrast south of the equator, which extended over 60% of the planet's diameter. The north pole region was a bit brighter that the rest of the planet, but no white areas were seen. |
Mars | B | C-8 | 2007/Dec/18 02:30:00 | The north polar cap was evident, but the "albedo" features were of very low contrast. |
Mars | B | C-8 | 2008/Jan/23 19:15:00 | Tonight's steady seeing allowed the best ever view of Mare Acidalium and the polar cap. |