NEOWISE and Booties galaxies

[yobbo89]

rumours are said that the west side of australia can see the comment for a short while before it kicks off

Are you in the west side?

yeah, apparently if you live on the west side of aus , you can see the comet for a little bit .

[yobbo89]

rumours are said that the west side of australia can see the comment for a short while before it kicks off

Are you in the west side?

on the east coast , each side has pros and cons for astronomy .

[10538]

Fine report and pics Andrey! Congratulations on your 2,000th DSO. I’m definitely impressed. I still have a few to go to finish up the H2 and H3 lists. I got tired of looking for faint fuzzies and went back to some beautiful Messiers for a few months. Now I’m back on the Herschels and determined to complete the lists.

[Bigzmey]

Fine report and pics Andrey! Congratulations on your 2,000th DSO. I’m definitely impressed. I still have a few to go to finish up the H2 and H3 lists. I got tired of looking for faint fuzzies and went back to some beautiful Messiers for a few months. Now I’m back on the Herschels and determined to complete the lists.

Thanks Ed! I know what you mean, you can get that much faint fuzzies before the eyes start to pop out.

Good luck with H2 and H3!

[John Baars]

Great report, a bit scary though. Gives me goosepimples.
Impressive haul of pictures, (Tarantula nebula, Neowise) and observations.
Thanks for sharing!

[Bigzmey]

Great report, a bit scary though. Gives me goosepimples.
Impressive haul of pictures, (Tarantula nebula, Neowise) and observations.
Thanks for sharing!

Thanks John! Local wild life always adds some excitement to observing.

[DEnc]

Local wild life always adds some excitement to observing.

As usual I enjoyed your report, especially concerning the flora and fauna. (A favored topic for me as you may recall. Nice tarantula pics!)

A few miles south of your site, in Ranchita, the bee population at my favored site has been pestering me for water. They’re more frequent and abundant visitors than the flies! Left to themselves they land on skin and forage. I think the lack of dew over the last few weeks has made it tough for them. They turn in by 8PM, but they’re up and at it at 5AM--thankfully they haven’t been aggressive. Up in Joshua Tree they’ve shut down some camping areas due to bees more aggressively seeking water.

[Bigzmey]

Local wild life always adds some excitement to observing.

As usual I enjoyed your report, especially concerning the flora and fauna. (A favored topic for me as you may recall. Nice tarantula pics!)

A few miles south of your site, in Ranchita, the bee population at my favored site has been pestering me for water. They’re more frequent and abundant visitors than the flies! Left to themselves they land on skin and forage. I think the lack of dew over the last few weeks has made it tough for them. They turn in by 8PM, but they’re up and at it at 5AM--thankfully they haven’t been aggressive. Up in Joshua Tree they’ve shut down some camping areas due to bees more aggressively seeking water.

Thanks DEnc! Since chaparral starting to bloom I also get fair share of bees, but as you say they are not aggressive.

[kt4hx]

Well done Andrey, glad you got to spot the current comet sensation, and very well done on reaching your 2,000th DSO observed.

I have been doing some observing but not religiously filing reports myself. This year I've had 16 sessions with a total of 515 new objects into the log (mostly galaxies). As I've mentioned I didn't keep a log for a few decades, but since I've started to do so over the last few years I have now surpassed the 3,300 mark (this past weekend). At least now I have a better sense of where I've been!

[Bigzmey]

Well done Andrey, glad you got to spot the current comet sensation, and very well done on reaching your 2,000th DSO observed.

I have been doing some observing but not religiously filing reports myself. This year I've had 16 sessions with a total of 515 new objects into the log (mostly galaxies). As I've mentioned I didn't keep a log for a few decades, but since I've started to do so over the last few years I have now surpassed the 3,300 mark (this past weekend). At least now I have a better sense of where I've been!

Thanks Alan! I wondered where did you go. Glad to hear that you keep observing.

As you, I have been observing on and off since I was a kid, but never kept systematic logs. When I got back to observing in 2015 (thanks to my daughter) she has insisted on keeping the logs. It did not take long to see the benefits. Thus, 2,000 DSOs, 1,300 binaries and the rest of my tallies are since 2015.

[Bigzmey]

A great session Andrey.
Thank you for sharing it with us.

Thanks Peter! Sorry, missed your post earlier.

[kt4hx]

Well done Andrey, glad you got to spot the current comet sensation, and very well done on reaching your 2,000th DSO observed.

I have been doing some observing but not religiously filing reports myself. This year I've had 16 sessions with a total of 515 new objects into the log (mostly galaxies). As I've mentioned I didn't keep a log for a few decades, but since I've started to do so over the last few years I have now surpassed the 3,300 mark (this past weekend). At least now I have a better sense of where I've been!

Thanks Alan! I wondered where did you go. Glad to hear that you keep observing.

As you, I have been observing on and off since I was a kid, but never kept systematic logs. When I got back to observing in 2015 (thanks to my daughter) she has insisted on keeping the logs. It did not take long to see the benefits. Thus, 2,000 DSOs, 1,300 binaries and the rest of my tallies are since 2015.

Thank you Andrey. Yeah, I am still around, but just haven't been on here too much for a while. The last report I filed was for 13 May, but I've observed eight times since then from the dark site house. I just didn't file any reports for those sessions. I have the notes of course, just never got around to putting anything on here about them.

Well that is good that you had a motivator to sort of point you in the right direction. I do deeply regret that I didn't keep track of the thousands of objects I observed over the previous decades. For reasons truly unknown to me, I simply never thought about a log way back then - sadly. That is why I encourage all to do so, because I lost a part of my history that I cannot recover. Of course some objects I remember, but the majority are lost to the ravages of time and fading memory.

[Kanadalainen]

Outstanding story, always like your reports Andrey.

Not sure how I would respond if I saw a spider of that size.

The biggest ones we have here are less than thumbtack sized.

Thanks!!

[Bigzmey]

Outstanding story, always like your reports Andrey.

Not sure how I would respond if I saw a spider of that size.

The biggest ones we have here are less than thumbtack sized.

Thanks!!

Thanks Ian! The spiders make you a bit jumpy, but they mind their own business for the most parts.