💾 Archived View for koyu.space › mrael2_obsv › sessions › 2021 › 2021-12-04.gmi captured on 2022-06-03 at 23:26:36. Gemini links have been rewritten to link to archived content
-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Date: 2021-12-04
Time: 6:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Seeing: I
Transparency: 7
NGC 7129 appeared as a set of three stars inside of a faint nebula. Two stars immediately adjacent to the nebulosity can be thought of as a handle to the stars within the nebula. Also known as the Little Pleiades, I can see the pattern, more or less, that is found in the Pleiades.
Also known as O'Meara's Secret Deep 103, I marvel yet again that O'Meara can see in a five-inch refractor pretty much exactly what I see in my 10-inch reflector (based on his sketch in the book). I could not confirm nearby NGC 7142, an open cluster. A small article on NGC 7129 appeared in the Nov. 25th edition of the Taos News.
I am surprised how warm this December night is (above freezing)!