TheSkySearchers

After some gawd-awful physical therapy to reset my inner ear, my sense of balance is back to normal, so I took my 80mm frac out about 0300 today.

Orion was still low over some houses to the SE, so I spent some time breathing in the Pleiades, Hyades, and Alpha Per association at 16X to 27X. I'm thinking I should spend an hour or two on just one of those clusters alone to give it justice.

Slewed over to M34 and then to Auriga to catch the M's over there. I always start with M36 since M37 and M38 can be challenging at home. M37 was reasonably visible, but M38 was tough today. It was there, but definitely fell into the "faint fuzzies' category. Quite a difference from my club's dark site where those clusters are all in your face using 15x70 binos.

By then, Orion was better placed, so I moved over to have a look at open cluster Cr69 at the head of Orion. Finished up with some time on M42 with my Astronomik filter. M43 was obvious today. And just FYI, Betelgeuse has yet to go supernova. Maybe tonight.

Shut down at 0500 'with astro twilight starting and Sirius well above the neighbor's roof.

Good to hear you are OK again. And capable of observing.

That's not fun; inner-ear problems! Been there and done that, hope all is good now!

Sounds like a nice session with some nice targets. I've been wanting to do the same, but Oh the weather!

Good for you on getting up early to catch all that

All the best,

Glad you’re in business again and congratulations on a good recovery. A student of mine had a divil of a time working through the therapy.

Nice session Pakarinen! I am glad you sorted our the ear issue, those are not fun.

notFritzArgelander wrote: ↑Sun Sep 05, 2021 5:27 pm A student of mine had a devil of a time working through the therapy.

Probably the most unpleasant thing I've ever experienced. I'd rather get a colonoscopy without anesthesia...

Not nice at all Olen, but I am pleased that the procedure worked well for you.

Hi Olen. Well, it looks like you had a great time of it in the early morning hours with the 80 mm refractor. You picked a good hand full of nice targets on your session. Thanks for your excellent observing report Olen, and I am glad that your inner ear is reset and your balance is back to normal.

Nice report Olen and congrats on securing today's VROD award for your efforts!

Congratulations on the VROD for the early observations of Winterobjects!
Nice read. Thanks!

Nice session, great report! Glad you are well again...and congrats on the VROD!

Dave