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Re: (IAAC) Obj: M48 (open cluster) - Inst: 13" f/5.6 Newtonian


>the 13" and a Giant Erfle 38mm eyepiece I saw it as:
>very bright, very large, pretty rich, little compressed and
>composed of stars of 9th to 13th magnitude.  There is no
>fuzzy background of stars, so it seems the 13" will resolve
>all the stars in the cluster, even at this low power.  I
>counted 61 members and there are several lovely chains of
>stars, including 7 stars in an arch or boomerang shape in
>the center.  Very nice cluster.
>


double checked the cluster last night in an 8", big difference there compared
to the 16". The boomerang continues to a figure 8 (upside down in the SCT)
if you look
closely, but not as obvious in the 8" at all. Also, noticed that the
members weren't 
brighter than the others in the group.


     
- Todd Gross
toddg@weatherman.com
Boston Meteorologist
weather/astronomy page: http://www.weatherman.com



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