A clear night at Taubenberg

Sunday evening - February 23, 2014

An alt. 900 m hill in the Alpine Uplands, with Manfred and Ralph, observing with Ralph's 20" for 3 hours. A clear night with both good seeing
and transparency, of course with the amount of light pollution to be expected in a distance of less than 40 km from downtown Munich. And in
the dusk we already heard the hooting of the Tawny Owls, which often develops into an hours-long concerto during springtime here.

19:38 CET, with 20-inch: From left Ralph, Manfred, Eila and Volkmar

In the eyepiece M42, moreover we observed the rich clusters NGC 2506 und NGC 2194 in
this region as well as the "Eskimo Nebula" NGC 2392 and Hubble's Variable Nebula" NGC 2261


The sky in the Northwest, ...

With Plejades, Perseus and Cassiopeia, in between the "Double Cluster" ...

... with the small chapel

... h+Chi Persei is easily recognizable.

From left Ralph und Ben

Observing the supernova in M82, the brightness was ~ 11.7 mag

Ralph observes Jupiter

The good seeing allowed for many fine details.

Fellow club members Eila and Volkmar ...

A wonderful tool for objects like M31 or rich open clusters
like M35, M37, h+Chi Persei, NGC 663, NGC 654, ...

... took along their 25x150-binoculars

... NGC 457 and NGC 7789, or the fine
color-contrast double WZ Cas.

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