Saturday, December 20, 2014

Stargazing in December

Last night was not windy and pretty clear weather and I decided to do some local observing.

Unfortunately, because of heavy light pollution from Baltimore, my Andromeda picture is not so good this time. You can barely see the galaxy's shape:




The much better one I made on Kile Knob a month ago: Novembers stargazing.

This time I just decided to go through some Messier objects.

Here is M37, Open Star Cluster in Auriga:

That is supposed to be Open Cluster M36, also in Auriga. I hope I've got the right one.

Another open cluster in Auriga - M38.

Orion Nebula - M42+M43 again. They are so beautiful.



Got some pictures of Jupiter when it was up enough.
Unfortunately there was only 3 moons and I did not stay long enough to catch the appearance of the fourth one.

My main concern was to capture stripes. Unfortunately it was extremely hard and stripes are still so pale.