| Description | Third capture of a strange evening when it rained right up to the moment it cleared around 9 PM. Because of the 93% moon, I had planned to capture a number of Messier objects, mostly clusters, using my EdgeHD. However, because of the late rain, I couldn't set up in advance, so I decided to observe with the SeeStar instead. The Pinwheel Cluster is famous. According to Wikipedia it was discovered prior to 1654, and the astronomer Giovanni Hodiema described it as a "fuzzy patch" (which gives you some idea of the mediocre telescope he was using). |
