[LVAS] October Observer's Challenge - Supplemental

[Fred Rayworth]

All,

 

We received a late but welcome entry to the October observer's challenge for NGC-253. Tony Labude from Oklahoma was kind enough to send in his observations. He is a great guy that I met at my first Okie-Tex star party in Ardmore, Oklahoma in 1993. He made those star parties so much more enjoyable that I might have skipped a few of them if not for him.

 

Fred Rayworth

 

Tony Labude:  Observer from Oklahoma
Several of he and his friends got to a fairly dark site the 16th & 17th of October with a list of 25 objects including NGC-253.  He bagged NGC-6717 ( not even on his star maps), M-33 and NGC-604 while waiting for NGC-253 to clear the trees.  Unfortunately, the 75% humidity brought heavy dew.  He was still able to find NGC-288 first, then just nudged the scope northwest to the galaxy.  In the 8" at 55X and terrible transparency, the galaxy had an elongated shape with a bright knot resembling a star in the middle and about 4 foreground stars scattered across the galaxy.  The 25" was set up but not collimated but he took a peek with a 17mm Plossl and was able to make out some dark areas and knots of something.  He finally had to give up because of the dew on the eyepiece.  The next night was wetter than the first.  He along with his friends were able to get an image with the FLI 8300C thru an Astro-Tech 80 (see Wiggly Davis And Labudes NGC-253.jpg)
 
 		 	   		  
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