Location: St. Croix Observatory (SCO)
Date: 2020-02-21
Time: 9:51 PM ADT
Instrument: 10x42 IS Binoculars
Magnification: x10
Transparency: not recorded
Seeing: not recorded
Temperature: -16ยบ C
SQM: 21.10
Observing with Jerry, Jeff Donaldson, Troy Sweeney & Blair MacDonald
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Constellation: Puppis Had to wait for Sirius and Procyon to clear the E-SE tree line. Using Sirius as the start point at 3'oclock in my FOV, I used stars to go 2 FOVs east of Sirius to find M47. The 4 stars in its core stood out. It was so cold, had to warm my hands between sketching each segment separately to provide the details. There was a bit of nebulosity on one side of the core. |