Date: 15 December 2006
Time: 0057 UT+8
Venue: Home garden
I was quite lucky that I was able to watch 4 Geminids after the peak (13 December 2006). The interval of the appearance of the first 2 Geminids was around 30 seconds. No equipment was used during the meteor shower watching.
Afterthat, I setup my LX90 to observe the “Tonight Best”. It’s the guided tour written by Meade. Every of the objects observed are Messier Objects. They were M35, M36, M37, M38, M42 and M45 (Pleaides). I was supposed to be able to see M1 (Crab Nebula) but the tour showed me M42 (Great Orion Nebula). M42 was in greenish tone. I would say it’s always the best nebula for visual enjoyment as this is one of the nebula which you can see colour.
M35, M36, M37, M38 and M45 are open cluster. There were really a lot of stars in the view. It’s very fantastic, especially the M37 which has the greatest amount of stars. The arrangement of the amount of stars from high to low is as follow. M37>M38>M35>M36>M45
I observed Saturn as well! The view is not so great as it’s still low in the sky but it’s getting higher and higher, so no worry. The time is coming soon.
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