Paul Cézanne's Astronomy Observing Reports

Last night I almost made it completely through the Virgo Cluster with my Canon 15×50IS binoculars. I posted my experiences in the Cloudy Nights binoculars forum where I asked, “Just how difficult is M91 anyway?” More than one person reported making the find, but all assured me that it was a hard one, probably the [...]

I just got inside from a brief observation of Lulin with my Canon 15×50IS binoculars. I last looked at it on the 7th, 11 days ago. It has significantly changed size, it is much larger now. It has also move quite a distance. It was near Zubenelgenubi in Libra then, now it has gone past [...]

It had been more than a month since I was able to view Comet C/2007 N3 Lulin and I was anxious to see it again, to see how it had brightened, how it had moved across the sky. I knew it was moving faster now, the chart in Sky and Telescope clearly shows that:

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I’ve always been fascinated by comets. It was back in 1973 when comet Kohoutek made its pass. Since then, I’ve of course enjoyed Hale-Bopp and Hyakutake in the mid 1990s. I can’t remember which one it was, but one of those two I was able to observe while driving home at night, seeing it through [...]

Steve and Rags cajoled me into heading over to New Boston to have one lest viewing session with them before the move. I knew I shouldn’t, I was way too tired and the boxes were calling my name. But, I did anyway. I really wanted to get a dark site view of the recent M-objects [...]

So after checking out the Comet Chasing website I decide to grab Comet Holmes tonight from Manchester and then after that easy grab, I’d enjoy 46P/Wirtanen passing by NGC 1893. I knew that that would be dim but I’m getting so good at this it would be a piece of cake.
I went outside right around [...]