From Lew.Gramer at noaa.gov Sat Dec 20 12:39:27 2008 From: Lew.Gramer at noaa.gov (Lew Gramer) Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2008 12:39:27 -0500 Subject: (IAAC) Flaming Star nebula - an IAAC challenge! Message-ID: <494D2DCF.5070402@noaa.gov> Below is a link to a wonderful image of the central region of AUR by an amateur in South Florida, USA. I see that frequent IAAC contributor Stephane Meloche has attempted to see the Flaming Star nebula (IC405) in binoculars: http://www.visualdeepsky.org/netastrocatalog/msg04618.html but was not successful. Surely others have some visual logs of this object, or some of the other (still fainter) features that haunt this region? Please share them with us! And mean time, clear skies and a Happy New Year to all. Lew Gramer owner at visualdeepsky.org From Lew.Gramer at noaa.gov Sat Dec 20 12:53:59 2008 From: Lew.Gramer at noaa.gov (Lew Gramer) Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2008 12:53:59 -0500 Subject: (IAAC) Flaming Star nebula - an IAAC challenge! In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <494D3137.2060106@noaa.gov> > Below is a link to a wonderful image of the central region of AUR by an > amateur in South Florida, USA. Apologies to those IAAC readers who did not receive the forwarded email that I mentioned in my previous post. Here it is in full - and the linked image is well worth examining, IMHO, even for those whose view may be jaundiced by having seen too many amateur images of this region in the past. Lovely. Clear skies! Lew -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [sfaaa_members] Auriga Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2008 12:31:28 -0500 From: Lew Gramer To: sfaaa Fred, that was just a stunning image - I particularly love the blue of the little reflection features nearest the exciting stars, but the vast sweep of the emission features all the way down to the lower right corner of the image is also nice! I've tried repeatedly over the years to see the Flaming Star nebula visually from dark sites, with everything from wide FOV (5" f/5 refr.) to large aperture (20", 36" dobs), and wide ranges of magnifications and filters of course. I've never managed it! Has anyone else? This image gives a hint why it's so tough: by far the brightest features seem to be those little reflective dust clouds - and of course, a filter just wipes those right out. Still, I have hopes. Maybe some day from northern Florida? Clear skies, Lew Gramer Fred Lehman wrote: > Greetings to all: > > Not wanting to let you guys have all the fun, but being a bit to lazy to > spend the entire evening painstakingly taking a mosaic, I instead put > the M25C camera onto my tiny little finder scope to capture this rather > nice snapshot of the central portion of the constellation of Auriga, > showing the pair of nebulae IC405 and IC410. A cropped and scaled JPEG > picture has been uploaded to: > "http://www.starfred.com/images/auriga_081219.jpg" for your viewing > pleasure. The field of view is 3.0 by 2.2 degrees with a spatial > resolution of 6.6 arcseconds per pixel. > > Enjoy > Fred Lehman From deepsky at yhti.net Sat Dec 20 13:07:24 2008 From: deepsky at yhti.net (deepsky at yhti.net) Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2008 12:07:24 -0600 Subject: (IAAC) Flaming Star nebula - an IAAC challenge! In-Reply-To: <494D2DCF.5070402@noaa.gov> References: <494D2DCF.5070402@noaa.gov> Message-ID: <494D345C.6070102@yhti.net> Lou, IC405 is on my observing list with my 13" if the sky ever clears here in Missouri. Sounds like it will be a tough one that will require a very good night. If I get the chance this winter I'll try to make it out to the observatory and observe it with a larger scope. Mark From ngc4565 at freemail.hu Sat Dec 20 14:56:09 2008 From: ngc4565 at freemail.hu (=?ISO-8859-2?Q?Szab=F3_=C1d=E1m?=) Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2008 20:56:09 +0100 (CET) Subject: (IAAC) Flaming Star nebula - an IAAC challenge! In-Reply-To: <494D2DCF.5070402@noaa.gov> Message-ID: Hello! It is not impossible to see it even in a 5" or less sized telescope. Rony de Laet made it with his 15?70 binocular! http://www.geocities.com/rodelaet/Sketch_IC405_IC410_bino.html But his sky was SQM 21.35. I have usually skies between 19.8 and 20.3, and I could catch it with my 6" f/5 Newton with aid of an UHC filter. I could see not only the most prominent region but sometimes hints of the North-South tail. ?d?m Szab? Lew Gramer wrote: > Below is a link to a wonderful image of the central region of AUR by an > amateur in South Florida, USA. I see that frequent IAAC contributor Stephane > Meloche has attempted to see the Flaming Star nebula (IC405) in binoculars: > > http://www.visualdeepsky.org/netastrocatalog/msg04618.html > > but was not successful. Surely others have some visual logs of this object, or > some of the other (still fainter) features that haunt this region? Please > share them with us! And mean time, clear skies and a Happy New Year to all. > > Lew Gramer > owner at visualdeepsky.org > _______________________________________________ > netastrocatalog-announce mailing list > netastrocatalog-announce at visualdeepsky.org > http://lists.visualdeepsky.org/mailman/listinfo/netastrocatalog-announce > From Lew.Gramer at noaa.gov Mon Dec 22 11:57:29 2008 From: Lew.Gramer at noaa.gov (Lew Gramer) Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2008 11:57:29 -0500 Subject: (IAAC) Flaming Star nebula - an IAAC challenge! In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <494FC6F9.2060800@noaa.gov> Adam, thank you for sharing this, and thanks to all who have responded that they will try for this object soon with their telescopes! Adam and others, our forum would really appreciate reading the details of your observations. And you can enjoy seeing them saved for posterity in an easy-to-access, searchable form on our online archive. Just enter your log via this simple Web form: http://www.visualdeepsky.org/enter-log.html Or if you cannot do this, or have questions, please just let me know? (Note to long-time readers also: the links on this form have now been updated...) Clear skies, and again, great observation! Lew Gramer IAAC Szab? ?d?m wrote: > Hello! > > It is not impossible to see it even in a 5" or less sized telescope. > Rony de Laet made it with his 15?70 binocular! > > http://www.geocities.com/rodelaet/Sketch_IC405_IC410_bino.html > > But his sky was SQM 21.35. > > I have usually skies between 19.8 and 20.3, and I could catch it with my 6" f/5 Newton with aid of an UHC filter. I could see not only the most prominent region but sometimes hints of the North-South tail. > > ?d?m Szab? > > > Lew Gramer wrote: > > >> Below is a link to a wonderful image of the central region of AUR by an >> amateur in South Florida, USA. I see that frequent IAAC contributor Stephane >> Meloche has attempted to see the Flaming Star nebula (IC405) in binoculars: >> >> http://www.visualdeepsky.org/netastrocatalog/msg04618.html >> >> but was not successful. Surely others have some visual logs of this object, or >> some of the other (still fainter) features that haunt this region? Please >> share them with us! And mean time, clear skies and a Happy New Year to all. >> >> Lew Gramer >> owner at visualdeepsky.org >> _______________________________________________ >> netastrocatalog-announce mailing list >> netastrocatalog-announce at visualdeepsky.org >> http://lists.visualdeepsky.org/mailman/listinfo/netastrocatalog-announce >> > _______________________________________________ > netastrocatalog-announce mailing list > netastrocatalog-announce at visualdeepsky.org > http://lists.visualdeepsky.org/mailman/listinfo/netastrocatalog-announce From Lew.Gramer at noaa.gov Wed Dec 31 18:46:56 2008 From: Lew.Gramer at noaa.gov (Lew Gramer) Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 18:46:56 -0500 Subject: (IAAC) Happy New Year to all! Message-ID: <495C0470.2020407@noaa.gov> A Joyous New Year to all participants in the 'IAAC'! Clear skies for 2009, Lew Gramer owner at visualdeepsky.org