2024-01-01

- Condition: VG6

- Location: Home, Spearfish: 44.49, -103.87

8:47PM

- Target: SAO 109003 (HD 26)

- Const: Pisces

- RaDec: 00h05m +08°47

- Type: Star (Carbon)

- Scope: AT102ED

- Setting: 55x

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Color is pale yellow with a touch of orange.

9:16PM

- Target: Z Piscium

- Const: Pisces

- RaDec: 01h16m +25°46

- Type: Star (Carbon)

- Scope: AT102ED

- Setting: 55x

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A very warm orange glow for a very cold night. Not many stars nearby, especially to the SE.

9:25PM

- Target: M 42, Orion Nebula

- Const: Orion

- RaDec: 05h35m -05°23

- Type: Diffuse Nebula

- Scope: AT102ED

- Setting: 55x

This might be one of the best views of M42 I've seen yet. The air is so still that I can seem to make out minor details and variations in the structure of the nebula.