Name/Designation | Right Ascension | Declination | Type | Magnitude | Size | Distance | Date |
Location | Instrument | Eyepiece | Filter | Notes |
Mel 227 | 20:12 | -79 18 | Open Cluster | 5.3 | 70' | 390KLY | September 11 2020 |
Farmborough Heights | 250mm f5.6 Dobsonian | 30mmUWA | | Very large, sparse and loose. Aout 30 stars over a large area in a sparse field. |
NGC2573; Polarissima Australis | 01:42.2 | -89 20 | Galaxy | 13.5 | 2.0'x0.8' | 128.2MLY | April 10 2019 |
Culburra | 400mm f4.5 Dobsonian | 9mmNagler | | Surprisingly bright.
Possibly I was only seeing the nucleus. |
NGC6438 | 18:22.3 | -85 24 | Galaxies | 11.1/11.8 | 2.7'x1.0' | 97.1MLY | April 10 2019 |
Culburra | 400mm f4.5 Dobsonian | 9mmNagler | | Faint but obvious and shapeless.
Actually two galaxies 6438 A and B. Couldn't see the separate entities. |
NGC6920 | 20:43 | -80 00 | Galaxy | 12.4 | 1.8'x1.5' | 119MLY | September 15 2006 |
Belanglo | 250mm f5.6 Dobsonian | 13.8mmSWA | | Round with a bright nucleus. |
NGC7098 | 21:44.3 | -75 07 | Galaxy | 11.3 | 4.0'x2.6' | 95MLY | September 15 2006 |
Belanglo | 250mm f5.6 Dobsonian | 13.8mmSWA | | Round with a large nucleus. |
NGC7637 | 23:26 | -81 54 | Galaxy | 12.4 | 2.1'x1.9' | 171MLY | September 15 2006 |
Belanglo | 250mm f5.6 Dobsonian | 20mmSWA | | A non-stellar, possibly round, haze. |