Jun 19th/20th Astronomy Log Transcript

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2020 June 19th ~Noon
-attempt at manually collimating 2ndary (secondary) mirror on Bushnell Voyager. Might be SLIGHTLY better. Need hex wrench/key to do it right.
-test new 20mm Kellner w/ FirstScope (on trees). Kellner kicks the socks off of the H20mm. While testing the H20 I noticed how bizarrely bad the H20 is.
[sketch showing how images are distorted in the H20 vs the Kellner]
Still no clear weather.
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2020 June 20 10:05 PM EDT
Good seeing, 40% cloud coverage, otherwise good transparency. (note: clouds got better within 20 minutes)
Alberio, DT6, 25mm
[sketch of Alberio]
Alberio is quite crisp and bright.
Gold & pale blue as ever.

Vega, defocused, Bushnell Voyager
[sketch showing the image of the mirror via an unfocused Vega]
collimation is awful and very difficult to correct. :(

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2020 June 20 10:50 PM EDT
[sketch of M13] M13 - 10mm DT6
fuzzy with a sprinkling of dim stars, very beautiful. Faint x shape in smudge.

[sketch of M57] M57 - 10mm DT6
a faint pale circle. Averted vision is necessary to see the ring as any more than a dot.

-Clear skies!

[sketch of Jupiter] Jupiter, 6mm Kellner / DT6
Jupiter is boiling and warping along the edges, but nevertheless two cloud bands and GRS appear quite clearly. Moons don't all fit in the fov. Very nice.

"Holeeeee shit" -William, looking @ saturn.
[sketch of Saturn] Saturn, 6mm /DT6
Two moons, gorgeous rings. Still wobbling, boiling image, but at the right moment the cassini pops out of the edge of the ring. VERY subtle banding.

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June 20 2020 11:57
Very clear skies.
[sketch of M51] M51 - 25mm/DT6
so faint it's almost impossible to see at all. No detail, just a round smudge.

[sketch] Lagoon Nebula & Open Cluster?
found by accident while looking for trifid nebula.
Gorgeous. Holy shit. Beautiful. Bright nebular core with faint fuzzy surroundings, in a very nice open cluster.

-found NGC 6531 cluster right above Lagoon. Clouds rolled in and spoilt it, and made searching for Trifid impossible.
ROUGH sketch [sketch]
Dense core, sparse edges.

Last ~20 min, fog showed up and dew soaked everything. Clouds then formed and covered most of the sky. Still VERY nice viewing (referring to the whole night)