Constellations: Eridanus, Hydra, Orion
Messier Object: M45 (Pleiades)
Planet: Mars
Identified & Not entered into Logbook or database:
Asterism: Big Dipper, Winter Circle
Messier Objects: M67
Location: SCO
Date: 2019-03-26
Time: 7:30 PM - 11:05 PM AST
Equipment: Visual + Binoculars, 10x42 IS
Transparency: Very Good (4)
Seeing: Very Good (4)
Temperature: -8º C
SQM: 21.49
At SCO with Jerry and Peter Hurley. Clear skies, no clouds, little if any wind.
Mars & M45 (the Pleaides)
Time: 7:40 PM AST
S&T Chart Reference: 15
Equipment: Visual + Binoculars
The red planet was seen just below and to the SW of the Pleiades.
Hydra
Time: not recorded
S&T Chart Reference: 24, 26, 36, 37
Equipment: Visual
Peter and I were looking for M67 in Cancer and noticed Hydra's head. We followed the constellation down to the horizon. Could not see Hydra's tail ( 58 Hya, π Hya and γ Hya).
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Orion Time: not recorded S&T Chart Reference: 14 Equipment: Visual I had thought Orion had a shield but Bruce Hamilton corrected last evening - it's a bow, not a shield. Tonight I looked for that curve of stars and found them visually. I did not use my binoculars. |
Eridanus
Time: 10:48 PM
S&T Chart Reference: 6, 16, 17, 19
Equipment: VisualPointed out this constellation and explained it to Peter. Dis not see all of the constellation due to our northern latitude.