2019-12-21 At Menke

Fun night at Menke tonite…
Put together my dome with Mike O and family friend Matt P this afternoon…
Mike and I headed out to Dixon where we grabbed a burger at the Legion… then met Ken B at Menke…
Mike and Ken did AP, as was my intent as well, but as I car pooled with Mike, I left the power cable for my CCD in my van… kind of a bummer!
Oh well… I had a great time doing a bit of visual astronomy… I made a list of the following objects I viewed:
The Planet Venus
M2 Cluster
M15 Pegasus Cluster
M37 Salt & Pepper Cluster
M56 Cluster
M72 Cluster
The Planet Uranus
I tried but couldn’t be sure of seeing the Asteroid Vesta
C30 The Deer Lick Galaxy
M36 Pinwheel Cluster
M81 Bodes Nebulae
M82 Cigar Cluster
NGC2244 Harp Cluster
Way cool NGC2169 The 37 Cluster
And for Star Wars, NGC936 Darth Vaders Starfighter Galaxy
And who can resist M42 Orion Nebulae…
Kinda fun how there are some new names for a few objects… and I’d never seen the 37 before… that’ll have to be another Owl Cluster type favorite at public events…
I had to take a cell phone snap of the trapezium and the 37 of course! Cool objects!
Clear Skies!
Jeff
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