GLOBULAR CLUSTERS IN SOUTHERN SKY (Updated)

Location:  Front yard, Little Lepreau, NB, Canada

Date Time:  July 7, 2019 2330-0220hrs

Weather:  Clear, No wind, very cool 11C @ 2330hrs and 8C at 0200hrs.  Only a few bugs.

Attendance:  David McCashion

Equipment:  Canadian Telescopes 80 ED/APO on motorized mount, 19mm eyepiece.  Canon Rebel T3 with 18-55mm lens and attached to telescope at prime focus.  Images stacked with Deepsky Stacker and processed on Photoshop.

Objective:  To view and image the Southwestern sky, Jupiter and Saturn and as many messier objects in that area as possible.

Report:

• Set up late, when Jupiter moved far enough to the west to see it past the tree in my front yard.  Aligned scope on Arcturus, Alkaid(Ursa Major) and Jupiter.
• Viewed M5.  Bright globular near a bright star..
• Viewed and imaged Jupiter.

• Imaged faint, small globulars M19 and M9.  M9 sits very close to a fairly bright star.

• Imaged nebulae M8, M20 & M21.  Very bright nebulae showing color in the eyepiece...blues and greens.
• Imaged the huge, bright globular M4, next to the brightest star in Scorpius, Antares.

Ten images stacked, 10 second, 6400 ISO, camera attached to telescope at prime focus.

•  Viewed M22.  A huge, bright globular.  Also viewed M28, a very small, faint globular.
• Viewed and imaged Saturn.

• No shooting stars or satellites were seen.