Constellations: Orion, Perseus, Taurus, Ursa Minor
Asterisms: Big Dipper, Winter Circle
Stars: α Arneb & β Nihal (in Lepus), Alcor-Mizar
Clusters: Melotte 25/Hyades, NGC 869/NGC 884
Planet: Venus
Messier Objects: M31, M41, M42 (Orion Nebula), M45 (Pleaides)
Identified, not Observed & Not entered into Logbook or database:
Students were shown the location of Boötes with Arcturus, Canis Major, Canis Minor, Cassiopeia, Gemini, Leo, Lepus, Taurus.
Location: York Redoubt
Date: 2020-03-05
Time: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM ADT
Moon: 81% Waxing Gibbous
Instruments: Visual, Binoculars 10x42 IS, 10" Meade SCT telescope
Transparency: not recorded
Seeing: not recorded
Temperature: not recorded
SQM: not recorded
At York Redoubt with Tony Schellinck's SCANS class. Also with us were Jerry, Blair MacDonald, Dave Hoskin, David Robertson and Bob Russell. We had arrived at 6:30 PM to set up - no breeze but foggy. Through the fog, we could see Venus shining through the western sky. At 7:25 PM (with students expected to arrive at 7:30 PM), the fog completely cleared to expose the clear sky.
Big Dipper, Mizar-Alcor
Time: not recorded
Equipment: Visual, binoculars
S&T Chart: 31, 32, 33, 43, F
One of the women asked me where the Big Dipper was. I turned her attention from the S-SE sky to the NE where the Dipper was standing on its handle. Using our binoculars, I pointed out Mizar and the smaller adjacent Alcor to her.
Ursa Minor
Time: not recorded
Equipment: Visual, binoculars
S&T Chart: 41, 51
For the first time in a long time I could actually locate all 7 stars in the asterism with no difficulty. The bowl was pointing downwards. Ask if I was excited!
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Orion, M42 |
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Winter Circle
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