Observations of ABELL 10
These are the observations available for ABELL 10. If you have any of your own that you'd like to submit we'd love to put them on the website.
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Planetaries in Orion
Andrew Robertson challenged me with Abell 10 (PK 197-14.1) a couple of weeks back so that was my first object for last night.
Easily seen, increasing exposure time didn't make it much clearer but it did pull out more field stars. Disc distinctly mottled and 'fluffy' edged. Two stars to note on right-hand side of the disc, the upper slightly detached from the disc, the lower one was brighter and was superimposed on the disc.
There was I believe a very faint galaxy just in the upper left of the field-of-view, I didn't identify it or draw it in as it was so tenuous.
Abell 10, lovely object thanks to Andrew for bringing it to my attention 😊
Sketch of Abell 10 by Dale Holt from his Chippingdale observatory in Hertfordshire using his 505mm Newtonian with a Watec 120N+ video camera. Close by was PK 193.9.1 so I thought I would take a look, one catalogue stated it as being in Orion another as in Taurus.
Another nice planetary nebula, smaller than Abell 10 and dominated by its bright central star, it looked to be a tight almost perfect round shell, wonder what colour this appears to the eye?
Just outside of the upper field-of-view was a nice edge on galaxy, distinct but I didn't identify.
Sketch of PK 193-9.1 by Dale Holt from his Chippingdale observatory in Hertfordshire using his 505mm Newtonian with a Watec 120N+ video camera. Very enjoyable observing.
Dale Holt - (18 January 2020).
