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TSS Monthly DSO Challenge for May 2024
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kt4hx »
Wed May 01, 2024 7:20 pm
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Welcome to May and hopefully plentiful clear skies for you wherever you live. This time of year the minds of many start thinking of galaxies and in...
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Great images, Greame, Thanks!
Cheers John
Glad you liked them.
Graeme
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Tue May 14, 2024 9:07 am
TSS Monthly DSO Challenge for April 2024
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kt4hx »
Tue Apr 02, 2024 6:18 pm
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Well, well; we are thankfully into spring here in the northern hemisphere. It holds the promise of variable temperatures, wind and rain. But...
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Look forward to future encounters.
You won't have to wait long Alan, I was out last night and the conditions were excellent. Gin clear sky and no...
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Tue Apr 30, 2024 4:20 pm
TSS Monthly DSO Challenge for March 2023
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kt4hx »
Sun Mar 03, 2024 3:06 pm
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Welcome to a new month, which means it is again time for another edition of the TSS DSO Challenge. This month I have for your pursuit a trio of...
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Nicely done Graeme. Your image looks similar to what I often see visually. The little faint diffuse ball of light in line with the two field stars....
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Tue Apr 02, 2024 6:08 pm
TSS Monthly DSO Challenge for January/February 2024 – Orion, the other stuff
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kt4hx »
Sun Dec 31, 2023 4:38 pm
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Happy New Year everyone, and I hope you made it through 2023 relatively unscathed! Whenever I hear someone mention a constellation that they are...
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Outstanding image Graeme! I really like the detail and color. You brought out the additional features I labeled in the image I attached in the...
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Sat Jan 27, 2024 4:14 am
TSS Monthly DSO Challenge for December 2023
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kt4hx »
Fri Dec 01, 2023 3:06 am
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Here we are with the last month of the year, and full of holiday cheer! We are also celebrating the richness of the late autumn/early winter sky for...
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Here's NGC1023, the Perseus lenticular galaxy. I captured a few subs at the end of my Carbon star hunt this week. The weather man promised just a...
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Sun Dec 24, 2023 2:26 pm
TSS Monthly DSO Challenge for November 2023
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kt4hx »
Sun Oct 29, 2023 8:09 pm
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A new month is upon us, and at least temporarily I am returning to the monthly version of the challenge vice the bi-monthly. For us northerners the...
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Great image of a challenge object Graeme! I think it's quite nice.
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Sun Dec 10, 2023 1:29 pm
TSS Bi-monthly DSO Challenge for September/October 2023
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kt4hx »
Sat Aug 26, 2023 7:52 pm
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Here we are with new skies and some new objects for you to add to your normal observing, sketching and/or imaging plans. As the months pass, our sky...
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Hi Alan,
I can’t see NGC 281 in the eyepiece, but I can photograph it.
I imaged this last week and it even has IC 1590 included (see
Greame...
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Wed Oct 11, 2023 2:29 pm
TSS Bi-monthly DSO Challenge for July/August 2023 - globular hunt
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kt4hx »
Fri Jul 07, 2023 3:47 pm
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Once again it is time for a new TSS DSO Challenge! The last time out we dealt with the Messier galaxies within the Virgo Galaxy Cluster. After that...
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We had clear skies last Sunday night so I had a go at the Northern targets. I'm still struggling with my mount since taking it out of storage. It...
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Sun Jul 30, 2023 8:30 am
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Fri Jul 14, 2023 9:05 pm
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Fri Jun 16, 2023 6:50 pm
TSS Bi-Monthly DSO Challenge for September/October 2022
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kt4hx »
Mon Aug 29, 2022 10:05 pm
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Well folks it’s that time again, a new bi-monthly DSO Challenge is upon us. Over the next couple of months the northern folks are heading into...
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Thank you John. A nice comparison on some challenging objects. Without a doubt filters do have an impact. How much of course has to do with the...
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Thu Sep 01, 2022 4:13 pm
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Thu Aug 25, 2022 9:41 pm
TSS Monthly DSO Challenge – March 2022
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kt4hx »
Sun Mar 06, 2022 12:20 pm
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Another new month, only this one is special for us up north. It signals the beginnings of spring (and autumn for our southern friends) and hopefully...
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Great set of targets Alan kt4hx . I'm looking forward to a clear night here in the next few days....Thanks for putting the list together!
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Tue Mar 15, 2022 5:18 pm
TSS Monthly DSO Challenge – February 2022
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kt4hx »
Thu Feb 03, 2022 10:50 pm
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The months move along quickly and we are ready for our next edition of the Monthly DSO Challenge. For the northern February run, we head to Hydra for...
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Great list, Alan! Missed reading this challenge, but did get all but NGC 2371/72 and NGC 2442/43 with either my SVX127D or the 20 inch Obsession!...
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Sun Mar 06, 2022 12:16 pm
TSS Monthly DSO Challenge – January 2022
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kt4hx »
Sat Jan 01, 2022 1:46 am
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Happy New Year! Here we are in a brand new year, with the promise of more observing, sketching and imaging over the coming months. I hope you will...
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I did manage the session last night with the Z10. Swept up NGC 1514 after a brief search and also caught M79, where I raised the power to 135x and...
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Thu Jan 13, 2022 3:56 pm
TSS Monthly DSO Challenge – December 2021
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kt4hx »
Wed Dec 01, 2021 8:11 pm
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TSS Monthly DSO Challenge – December 2021
This month’s column marks the twelfth edition, of the TSS Monthly DSO Challenge, and it has been my...
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A good read as always Alan. The detail in your description of M1 is inspiring!
In SE UK we are promised our first clear night tomorrow since I got...
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Thu Dec 09, 2021 11:43 pm
TSS Monthly DSO Challenge – November 2021
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kt4hx »
Sat Nov 06, 2021 10:00 pm
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Hello everyone and thanks for stopping by. This month we shall visit the constellations of Perseus, Cassiopeia and Triangulum in the north. For our...
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Found the Double Cluster ok with my 11x70 binoculars. A fine collection of stars but it would look more impressive with a greater magnification to...
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Wed Nov 24, 2021 11:41 am
November 2021 TSS Monthly DSO Challenge
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kt4hx »
Wed Nov 10, 2021 3:09 am
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We were over at the dark site for a couple of nights and I revisited the northern objects for this month using the 17.5 inch scope. Here are my...
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I also had the following observation of M33 in September of last year at the dark site with the 17.5 inch in which I specifically targeted some of...
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Thu Nov 11, 2021 9:33 pm
TSS Monthly DSO Challenge – October 2021
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kt4hx »
Sat Oct 02, 2021 12:03 am
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Hey there, it’s a new month! That means that once again it is time for me to share with you a few objects that I hope you will add to your normal...
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Thanks everyone and glad you all enjoyed the objects for October.
Good luck with your recovery Gordon.
Nice story John. From our dark site I've...
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Sat Nov 06, 2021 12:33 am
TSS Monthly DSO Challenge – September 2021
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kt4hx »
Thu Sep 02, 2021 1:24 am
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Hello friends and welcome to the new edition of the TSS Monthly DSO Challenge. This month the primary plane of the Milky Way will be shifting a bit...
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I would not expect you to remember three hops, that is why they make charts! :) While there are several objects I can find without consulting a...
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Sat Oct 02, 2021 12:06 am
August & September
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KingNothing13 »
Sat Sep 04, 2021 7:16 pm
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Last night I was able to get 5 of the 6 August/September Northern Sky Challenges.
Rather than duplicate it all here, this is the link to the report:
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Thanks Brett. Even though I read your report in the reports forum for these (congrats on the VROD for that!) I appreciate you posting a link here as...
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Sat Sep 11, 2021 2:41 pm
TSS Monthly DSO Challenge – August 2021
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kt4hx »
Sun Aug 01, 2021 7:56 pm
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Welcome back and here we are in another new month, with another new list of objects for you to pursue. Last month we relied heavily on the Messier...
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Thank you so much Steve. Glad you remembered and posted them for us to see. That view of NGC 6939/6946 is a classic! The curious contrast of open...
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Sun Sep 05, 2021 2:24 pm
August 2021 TSS DSO Challenge from Kent UK
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Graeme1858 »
Fri Aug 06, 2021 11:10 pm
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Tonight is the clearest night sky for ages! So I got comfy in the sun lounger with my binoculars and aimed at Sadr. After studying Stellarium earlier...
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Fine images Graeme, and thank you for the submissions. I didn't select the targets for your binoculars! :lol: Your 9.25 on the other hand should do...
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Thu Sep 02, 2021 6:17 pm
NGC6744
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Gerald_db »
Sun Aug 15, 2021 7:57 pm
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NGC 6744 is an intermediate spiral galaxy about 30 million light-years away in the constellation Pavo. It is considered as a Milky Way mimic in our...
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Evening all. Been a bit hectic here South Africa and hence not had time to be online here. I have re-processed a bit to ease off some of the noise...
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Fri Aug 27, 2021 5:02 pm
August 2021 TSS DSO Challenge
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kt4hx »
Sun Aug 01, 2021 11:33 pm
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I will kick things off this month with some of my observing notes for the August targets. Hopefully my experiences will give you some sense of what...
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Great report as always Alan!
Interesting that you can see M29 under Bortle 5 with an 8x10 RACI. I failed to identify it with my 10x50 bins! Either...
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Mon Aug 09, 2021 12:09 am
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