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Re: (IAAC) Barnard's Loop, Naked Eye or Otherwise
At 09:35 24/09/98 PDT, you wrote:
>From: Dave Mitsky <djm28@psu.edu>
>>
>>From a fairly dark site in south central Pennsylvania I have observed
>the Rosette's nebulosity through an O-III filtered 20" f/10 classical
>Cassegrain at 127x.
>
>Wow! You surely didn't see the whole thing at once in this rig...
Using a 20" f3.9 and a 27mm Panoptic + OIII filter I did get most of the
Rosette in one field and it is a sight worth seeing.The combination gives a
field of almost a degree and a power of 75x. It also fits most of M33 in
one field ( without the OIII filter of course )
I must try for Barnards loop with it. Must have missed NGC7000. Keep going
for faint PN's
>
>>At the opposite extreme I was able to see a part of NGC 2237 as a dim
>glow through my 80mm f/5 Orion ShortTube refractor equipped with a 26mm
>Tele Vue Ploessl (15x) and an Orion Ultrablock filter on board the MS
>Veendam during the 1998 solar eclipse cruise. Of course, in the tropics
>the Rosette Nebula was much higher in the sky and it was really quite
>dark on the ship's upper forward deck. I've also had some great views
>of the Rosette through a variety of instruments at the Winter Star
>Party.
>
>These sound more typical I think. The 80mm Shorttube is a great travel
>scope, eh? Good enough for decent views, cheap enough so it doesn't
>break your heart if it gets bumped around.
>
>>At this year's Stellafane I had a wonderful view of the North American
>Nebula and the Pelican Nebula through Al Nagler's 85mm T V refractor,
>35mm Panoptic, and UHC filter.
>
>That sounds right, too. I get just about the whole complex with my
>Shorttube and a 22 Panoptic, but what you just described sounds
>exquisite.
>
>Bruce Jensen
>
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