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m564 views
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m57-211 views
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Messier 577 views2006-05-23 23:40:00 M57 Ring Nebula 9x63 Meade Travelview Binoculars 5.8° field of view 9 M57 looked like a gray-white magnitude 8.5 star in binoculars. No detail was detectable. It would not be recognized as a Messier object except for being in the right place and having the right magnitude. Surrounding starfield was pretty, being at the edge of the Milky Way (not visible to naked eye in Bowie, but nebulosity just visible in binoculars. It is found by aiming the binoculars at roughly the midpoint between Beta and Gamma Lyrae, and looking for a triangle of gray-white 8.5 magnitude stars (requiring averted vision) right on the line from Beta to Gamma. Two stars are north of the line, and the third “star” is M57, south of the line.
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m610 views
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m712 views
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m715 views
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Messier 88 views2006-08-16 21:56:00 M8 Lagoon 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. Lagoon Nebula M8 reminded me of Orion's sword. I saw two optical doubles and a single, each surrounded by bright bluish-white nebulosity. This one was particularly beautiful. The two nebulosities on the left had comet-like tails pointing toward the southwest, while the one on the right was elliptical in the east-west direction, with maybe a slight bulge toward the northwest. M20 and M21 are visible in the same field of view.
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m804 views
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m81-821 views
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m98 views
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m928 views
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mel205 views
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