I was quite tired yesterday. Therefore, I just observed 5 objects. Three of them were globular clusters. 2 of them were the so-called Messier objects. They were a little bit faint in the view. I think this might be the problem of the atmosphere turbulence. I found Moon was the most interesting objects but I didn’t observe it using my precious LX90 but the naked eyes. 
The Moon was really mighty and yellowish! It looked like an egg and a grandma was in the Moon! I will be writing an observing note about this tomorrow. 
Good news here! I will be getting a notebook in 2 weeks time. By that time, the imager will be sent to the front line and the observing notes will be filled with images!
Date: 14 June 2006
Time: 9:47PM GMT+8
Sky Condition: Clear
Objects Observed
Planets
- Jupiter
- Earth Moon
Star Clusters
- Messier 004 (NGC6121, Globular Cluster)
- Messier 013 (NGC6205, Globular Cluster)
- Omega Centauri (Caldwell 80, Globular Cluster)
Jupiter didn’t interest me yesterday as it was just as normal as before. Three Moons were spotted! I am going to take a photo of the Great Red Spot.
Messier 004 was in Scorpius. Its magnitude was 5.9 but I found it quite faint while its size was 26′. This object is looked best in medium to high-power eyepiece. It is located to the west of Antares and about 6200-10000 light years away from us.
Messier 013 is also known as NGC6505. It’s a globular cluster as well. It was in Hercules and 5.9 in magnitude while 10′ in size. It’s 22000 light years away and 160 light years in diametre. It is the closest and brightest globular cluster between the 2 globular cluster in Hercules. It looked like a patch of sugar on the table. I need to photograph it for a better view as I found it too faint to me at that time.
Omega Centauri is known as NGC5139 in NGC catalog. It’s also named Caldwell 80. Its magnitude was 3.7 and 22′ in size. It’s 17000 light years away from us and 150 light years in diametre. The average distance between the stars of only 0.1 light year which is very close! It looked great in the eyepiece! This was my another favourite object! 
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