10:09 PM. Tony tried to manually hop to Messier 82.
10:26. We viewed the supernova, Tony and I.
I had hopped with the Telrad and finder scope. Spotted the two galaxies in the Tele Vue refractor with a 10mm eyepiece. Oops, initially had M81 in the big 'scope, the Celestron 14-inch. Centred on other.
Thar she blows! M82 had a bright point! Viewed with the 55mm ocular initially then bumped to 27mm. The exploded star very obvious. I wondered if it might be exactly the same brightness as the star, so magnitude 10.0 or 10.1.
Tony headed to the house for a different hat.
10:30. I realised I didn't have the TPoint file on the netbook computer. Copied it to LAN from laptop, which Tony had brought out.
We compared our visual view to Mortfield's image from the 23rd.
Saturday, January 25, 2014
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