My Astronomical Activities in Pictures: Kile Knob Mini Star Party

At first, want to say thanks again to Tom Renn for his hospitality on his property and providing equipment for best star-gazing experience ever.

Mini Star party was three days long. My primary goal for it was to fill gaps in my Messier Object list and observe objects which I couldn't see during Messier Marathon week before.

First night was little bit cloudy, but I've made 20 objects in Virgo Cluster and surrounding areas. Fortunately enough I've finished right before clouds covered the skies.

Second night I did several objects around Ursa Major. I had less objects, but also less time to observe before clouds came.

On the third evening I had nothing to spot and my goal was to spot comet Panstarrs (C/2012 K1) and detect a location of planets Ceres and Vesta, which are supposed to be nearby.

Because my small telescope is not powerful enough I decided to spot the comet by picturing it.
Tom set me his camera-tracking device and here is the first good try of it.

That is or closest neighboring planet Mars.

During the comet search I've spotted M101 (Pinwheel Galaxy), which I recorded night before:

And here is the prize. M51 (Whirlpool Galaxy) and greenish comet Panstarrs (C/2012 K1)

During the search of Ceres and Vesta I've made several pretty good other pictures.

That is Beta Ophicus - Cebalrai (yellowish). Nothing special, but pretty interesting new star formation (above it), which is very binocular-genic.

Here are some neighbors: Star Clusters M10 and M12.

Here is bunch of objects from the Virgo cluster. Unfortunately I did not get the very center, but that picture also includes a lot of galaxies, such as: M98, M99, M100, M84 and several others not from Messier list.

While I was picturing different objects some new ones in Saggitarius came up. So, I had an opportunity to document observing of additional seven objects.

That is one of them: M11 (Wild Duck Cluster) and surrounding dark and bright nebulaes.

Here is again M11 and open star cluster M26 (at the bottom)

By the time I was done with objects in Saggitarius beautiful Milki Way came to the sky

As of right now I have only six Messier objects not documented in my list.
I've tried to find M76 (Little Dumbbell Nebula), but my small telescope couldn't spot 11th magnitude object on the horizon at the time of coming sunrise. I've tried to spot it by picturing it, but it was already too late.

However, I've got unexpected picture of Andromeda Galaxy (M31) - on the right.