•Object Name: Ghost of Jupiter (NGC 3242).
•Object Type: Planetary Nebula.
•Location: San Miguel, Buenos Aires Argentina.
•Conditions: NELM 4.5. Good transparency, bad seeing.
•Date: 23/03/2014 11:00pm.
•Media: HB, 2B, blend stump and PS for color. Averted vision.
•Telescope: Meade LB 12″ on equatorial tracking platform.
•Eyepiece: SW TMB II 6mm and sometimes TV UHC filter.
Hi ASOD! This time I bring you all the Ghost of Jupiter from my backyard. It was a good night except for the poor seeing conditions. Some of the stars are down to mag 13-14 and the nebula, with averted vision, was excellent showing internal details at x254. Days later, at a star party, I could appreciate the full glory of nebula, the central star was like a pin and incredible details were easily seen at x254-x400 (no sketch, sorry!). Hope you like it!
Best regards, Leo.
Stunning Leo, very well done 🙂
Dale UK
Congratulations, mate.
This is a very impressive sketch, specially considering you made it from backyard, in such a big city as Buenos Aires.
Really well done, thanks for sharing it.
Thank you all! Most of the work was possible thanks to the tracking platform, especially at these high magnifications (a big change in my observations).
There is also a military base with virtually no lights near my city that helps a bit with the light pollution of Buenos Aires in that direction. Leo
Leo,
An excellent capture of this fine planetary nebula.
Frank 🙂
Very nice Leo !
I just try to imagine which was your observation days later with much better conditions…
Don’t forget your scrapbook next time !!! 🙂
Jean-Marc