Astroonomy Friday

Sometimes vacations provide an absolutely grand sky. When you're in a place like Death Valley, the sky's to die for. The two nights there caught the following:

The 8" Schmidt-Cassegrain, an old Dynamax with fabulous optics, captured:

1. Jupiter
2. Mars
3. M-42 in Orion
4. Cor Caroli
5. Split both Alcor and Mizar in the Big Dipper

10 x 50 Celestial Images Binocular gleaned:

1. M-81 and M-82 galaxies
2. The galaxies of Leo
3. Andromeda
4. Coma Bernicies
5. Open cluster M-41 in the Canis Major

Goes to show that even binoculars can "see" galaxies and other faint fuzzies