Location: St. Croix Observatory (SCO)
Date: 2024-09-29
Time: 8:48 PM ADT
S&T Reference: 66
Equipment: 10" Meade SCT
Eyepieces: SvBony 10-30mm Zoom eyepiece (used 30mm)
Magnification: x83
Seeing: Excellent (1)
Transparency: Good (3)
| Time | SQM | Temp |
| 10:37 PM | 21.14 | 10° C |
There were intermittent periods of cloud cover so had to be patient for this area of sky to clear.
M75 is located west of Capricornus. It had a relatively bight core with a wide diffuse border, but I could not discern any individual stars of the object.
There were stars south of it that were easily detected but I could not 'see' any stars north of it. Upon finishing this sketch, the clouds arrived.
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Constellation: Sagittarius Type: Globular Cluster Magnitude: 8.5 Distance: 59 kly Radius: 6.0 ' |
There was one more clear session but when the clouds rolled in again, we packed and went home.