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The current comet du-jour has really come into its own from a visual perspective in the past week and is truly delightful in the eyepiece now. How much longer it will last is the big question, but come next week it will start descending in the western sky at twilight, so not very much longer. 12P Ma...

As seen last night along the Russia/Siberia border...I mean Rte.105 in Middleboro, where it was just as darned cold!

Mike M.

Same to you, Mark! Here's a little something I had put together for the SSAS folks, but applies equally well here too;


Keep Looking Up!

Mike M.

The Christmas Tree Cluster is one of those objects that has to be seen in the eyepiece to appreciate. I find that the 'tree' form stands right out to me even in a scope under 6" when the moon isn't in the sky. A mistake commonly made by observers looking for it is thinking that the Cone Nebula ...

Hi Pete, We caught it here on the Gurnet. Very spaced out now. The other night they were very tight. It's interesting and disturbing at the same time. I can no longer buy into any recycling/global warming/climate change garbage, but the satellites are very pretty going across the sky. StarLink Oct5'...

Hi Pete, We caught it here on the Gurnet. Very spaced out now. The other night they were very tight. It's interesting and disturbing at the same time. I can no longer buy into any recycling/global warming/climate change garbage, but the satellites are very pretty going across the sky. StarLink Oct5'...

Open clusters: NGC 457 in Cassiopeia, aka the Owl, E.T., or Dragonfly. IC 4756 in Serpens, aka the Tweedledee cluster...simply stunning at low power. NGC 752 in Andromeda. Binoculars: Davis' Airplane in Cassiopeia, situated immediately west of M52, just over one binocular field north of Caph...follo...

M71 is an underappreciated visual object. A few years ago up at Stellafane a friend put it in the eyepiece of his 18" Newt at high power...it looked like this;

Mike M.

One thing Roger didn't mention about that asterism is the overall dimness of it. The brightest star at lower left is 10.35, the one above it is 11.25, the one to the right of it is 11.85, while the far right one is 11.7 mag. That makes me wonder if Messier saw anything at all in his small scope, and...

I remember looking at this thing when I was completing my observations for the AL Messier observing club and thinking that it was a mistake. In the 4.5" scope I was using under less than stellar sky conditions it was three stars and that's about it. There are a few objects across the list that ...