Sunday, June 12, 2005

M92 Found

Tonight Mike found M92, a globular cluster in Hercules. It was observed from outside of our apartment. We had tried to look for it but it was not easy. Looking through the finderscope resulted in getting lost among a myriad of previously unappreciable stars. M92 was found with the help of a satellite that passed over head. Mike tracked the satellite in the finderscope and when the satellite was in the neighborhood of where M92 should be Danielle told Mike to stop. Mike observed a faint fuzzy object in the finderscope and centered the crosshairs on it. He looked in the telescope and discovered a small but unmistakable ball of light. It was somewhat fuzzy and unevenly light, but was M92.