BANGKOK DEEP-SKY OBJECTS OBSERVING
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On 1998 my wife took a telescope from her school to home.
I scan the telescope to Brightest star which have 4 tiny dots around it.
I didn't know what it was, later I recognized that it was Jupiter when I saw the
cloud band on its disk and 4 tiny dots are galilian moons which dancing around
Jupiter. Near Jupiter there was second brightest star, I scan to it and found a
star with ring, it must be Saturn!.. I take astronomy as a hobby since then.
I would like to see at more power but the have no shorter focus eyepiece.
Then I order my first telescope from supplier who supplied science equipment to
my wife's school. But it took so long time about 3 months. While waiting for them,
I studied from web site and down loaded astronomical programs. I observed many
constellation with naked eyes and found that limit magnitude is about 4.0. I brought
10 x 50 binoculars before telescope come. With binoculars, the magnitude limit is
down to 8.0, I also saw M31, M34 & M45. Eventually my telescope came, it is 4.5"
newtonian short tube f8.8, fortunately it was out off collimation, I have to learn
from web sites & text books to align the optic..it was very difficult to learn by
myself. But when I saw cassini division of saturn's ring & IO's shadow cash on Jupiter,
it was good value for my attempt. With telescope 4.5", the magnitude limit is down to
10.4. I brought sky atlas 2000 and starting to hunt deep sky objects..I also brought
many text books. It is very funny hobby, I learn many new things including creating
of this web page.
(1) How many deep sky objects that can be seen from Bangkok with small
telescope.
(2) Observing with classical method i.e. star hopping & sketching. It is cheapest
and most effective way to be experienced observer.
(3) Share experience to others.