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Swan Flight

After a day where the sky was veiled in medium of vision clouds for most of the afternoon, the fall of day cleared off nicely by about 10 PM.  The neighbors kept their compound lights off, the temperature was in the high-reaching 60's and even the bugs maintained a considerable distance (save for the incidental June Bug buzzing gone my ear like an attacking Huey).  All variables were aligned for a beneficial night of viewing.

My at the head targets, the small clump of NGC galaxies enclosed within the three-sided figure formed by Denebola and delta and theta Leonis.  I caught view of a couple of those faint galaxies, but was incapable to see them well enough to determine which I had found.  I reflect my problem was that at 10:15 PM or so there was still enough crepuscular light glow to the west to cleanse by ablution out my view.  I turned my watch to Hercules and went in examine of NGC 6207 the small milky way near M13.  I have never speckled this galaxy before, I never remember to gaze for it when I'm ogling the big assemblage.  It was an easy find and showed well in my 10" at 92X.  After expenditure some time with M13 at magnification from 50X to 480X (at 480X the survey was somewhat dim, but I did see the ‘screw-steamer’ for the first time), I took in M92, resolving it curiously at 140X with my barlowed 17mm Stratus EP.At this sharp end my faithful observing mate, Jessie was standing to the boreal of a small ash tree that grows in my enclosure.  She was looking up at the vast swan and said, "I understand I'm the bird dog here, but your going to have to bag that one yourself."  In the last year I've draw near to trust her judgment about things analogous this, so I did indeed turn my attention to Cygnus.  First with binoculars.  Cygnus is one of my dear binocular areas of the sky with it’s bulky star fields and crafty dark nebulae.  Some of the most remarkable features of Cygnus, however, had always eluded me through binoculars, or through a telescope.  When you...

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