{"id":358,"date":"2013-03-11T01:29:53","date_gmt":"2013-03-11T01:29:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joebohanon.com\/wordpress\/?p=358"},"modified":"2013-03-11T01:29:53","modified_gmt":"2013-03-11T01:29:53","slug":"messier-marathon-part-5-on-to-sunrise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.joebohanon.com\/wordpress\/messier-marathon-part-5-on-to-sunrise\/","title":{"rendered":"Messier Marathon Part 5 (On to Sunrise)"},"content":{"rendered":"

By this point, only one other person was left and he was packing up. Soon, I was all alone, waiting for the last few objects to rise.<\/p>\n

M6 is an open cluster in Scorpius:<\/p>\n

\"M6\"<\/a><\/p>\n

And M7 is another open cluster next to it. This was shot through trees.<\/p>\n

\"M7\"<\/a><\/p>\n

M16, the Eagle Nebula follows. I didn’t get much of the nebula here, but I did get the cluster:<\/p>\n

\"M16\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Then M17, the Swan Nebula:<\/p>\n

\"M17\"<\/a><\/p>\n

And M18, an open cluster nearby:<\/p>\n

\"M18\"<\/a><\/p>\n

M24 is a gigantic star cloud in Sagittarius. It’s not much to look at here, but it’s mainly just clumps of the Milky Way:<\/p>\n

\"M24\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Then M25:<\/p>\n

\"M25\"<\/a><\/p>\n

And M23:<\/p>\n

\"M23\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The next three objects are close-by. M8, the Lagoon Nebula, M20, the Trifid Nebula and M21, an open cluster. The latter two are obvious. I barely caught part of M8 in this picture (lower right).<\/p>\n

\"M82021\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Then M28:<\/p>\n

\"M28\"<\/a><\/p>\n

M22, an amazing globular cluster:<\/p>\n

\"M22\"<\/a><\/p>\n

M69<\/p>\n

\"M69\"<\/a><\/p>\n

and M70:<\/p>\n

\"M70\"<\/a><\/p>\n

At this point the noise is getting very bad. M54 is next:<\/p>\n

\"M54\"<\/a><\/p>\n

M55 should be next, but I was unable to capture this due to it being very low. M75 was the next one I got:<\/p>\n

\"M75\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Then we hit the last two “easy-to-find” objects of the night. M15:<\/p>\n

\"M15\"<\/a><\/p>\n

and M2:<\/p>\n

\"M2\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Then comes M72, a glob in Aquarius. This is very hard to see visually. It’s right in the middle.<\/p>\n

\"M72\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The last one I got was M73, an asterism of four stars in Aquarius (right in the middle).<\/p>\n

\"M73\"<\/a><\/p>\n

And that was that. M30 is not really possible from this latitude, and especially not facing into the Baltimore skyglow.<\/p>\n

I left around 6:30 and got to see a gorgeous thumbnail moonrise (no pics, sorry). As exhausting as this was, I was very pleased with the experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By this point, only one other person was left and he was packing up. Soon, I was all alone, waiting for the last few objects to rise. M6 is an open cluster in Scorpius: And M7 is another open cluster next to it. This was shot through trees. M16, the Eagle Nebula follows. I didn’t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7qGdg-5M","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.joebohanon.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.joebohanon.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.joebohanon.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.joebohanon.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.joebohanon.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.joebohanon.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":361,"href":"http:\/\/www.joebohanon.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions\/361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.joebohanon.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.joebohanon.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.joebohanon.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}