Mario has sent us, from Florida, an even half-dozen photographic examples
of the practice of astronomy outside of the static New England cloud bank.
His descriptions follow; they're the last six images in his gallery, here
https://gaac.us/gallery-2/mario3/.

• 1. NGC3718, in Ursa Major, a great disturbed galaxy interacting with
     NGC3729. And as an added bonus, a very distant Hickson galactic group just
     south of it, in the far distance (>500 million light years).
• 2. Eta Carina. I have long wanted to see this, got a nice view with a
     very unusual 12 inch F2 telescope with an image intensifier, and an Ha
     attached filter. This was 3 degrees above the ocean horizon, taken with my
     iphone at the eyepiece. Wow.
• 3. NGC1291. A very nice barred galaxy in Eridanus, with a double ring,
     inner and outer.
• 4. NGC1532, a very strangely disturbed galaxy in Eridanus, known as
     "Haley's Bonnet", 50 million light years away
• 5. RCW36 (also GUM20), star cluster and nebula, deep south in Vela.
• 6. NGC2467. The Skull and Crossbones nebula, in Puppis

I truly admire these images, Mario.2467 is amazing.
Phil

On Wednesday, March 27, 2024 at 04:39:58 PM EDT, Michael Deneen <michael.patrick.deneen@gmail.com> wrote:  

Mario has sent us, from Florida, an even half-dozen photographic examples of the practice of astronomy outside of the static New England cloud bank. His descriptions follow; they're the last six images in his gallery, here.

• 1. NGC3718, in Ursa Major, a great disturbed galaxy interacting with NGC3729. And as an added bonus, a very distant Hickson galactic group just south of it, in the far distance (>500 million light years).
• 2. Eta Carina. I have long wanted to see this, got a nice view with a very unusual 12 inch F2 telescope with an image intensifier, and an Ha attached filter. This was 3 degrees above the ocean horizon, taken with my iphone at the eyepiece. Wow.
• 3. NGC1291. A very nice barred galaxy in Eridanus, with a double ring, inner and outer.
• 4. NGC1532, a very strangely disturbed galaxy in Eridanus, known as "Haley's Bonnet", 50 million light years away
• 5. RCW36 (also GUM20), star cluster and nebula, deep south in Vela.
• 6. NGC2467. The Skull and Crossbones nebula, in Puppis

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 On Wednesday, March 27, 2024 at 04:39:17 PM EDT, Michael Deneen via Photo <photo@lists.gaac.us> wrote:  

Mario has sent us, from Florida, an even half-dozen photographic examples of the practice of astronomy outside of the static New England cloud bank. His descriptions follow; they're the last six images in his gallery, here.

• 1. NGC3718, in Ursa Major, a great disturbed galaxy interacting with NGC3729. And as an added bonus, a very distant Hickson galactic group just south of it, in the far distance (>500 million light years).
• 2. Eta Carina. I have long wanted to see this, got a nice view with a very unusual 12 inch F2 telescope with an image intensifier, and an Ha attached filter. This was 3 degrees above the ocean horizon, taken with my iphone at the eyepiece. Wow.
• 3. NGC1291. A very nice barred galaxy in Eridanus, with a double ring, inner and outer.
• 4. NGC1532, a very strangely disturbed galaxy in Eridanus, known as "Haley's Bonnet", 50 million light years away
• 5. RCW36 (also GUM20), star cluster and nebula, deep south in Vela.
• 6. NGC2467. The Skull and Crossbones nebula, in Puppis

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