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m20-2115 views2006-08-16 21:47:00 M20 Triffid Nebula 15x70 Celestron SkyMaster Binoculars 4.4° field of view 15 Moon hadn't risen yet. Good night for viewing. To see objects in this direction, I had to be in my front yard looking over my house and the trees behind it. This had the disadvantage of streetlights and car headlights, as well as neighbors' entry lights. Still, the objects I looked at tonight were bright enough to show through. My next-door neighbor's motion sensor lights were on only a few minutes this night, happily. Sagittarius is a great place to find Messier objects, except for being in a hard-to-view section of the sky where I live. Triffid Nebula M20 appeared to be a nebula with a star in it, and a star above it. The nebula was somewhat brighter on the lateral edges, giving it a Delta shape. Open cluster M21 looked like a double star surrounded by nebulosity, and the nebulosity seemed to stick out a little in the north and south directions. I also sketched nebulosity around an optical double closer to the center of the field of view. This might or might not be SH2-34.
c.f. M21 (see also M8).
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