Observations of NGC6956

These are the observations available for NGC6956. If you have any of your own that you'd like to submit we'd love to put them on the website.

NGC 6956 in Delphinus

Video versus the Eyepiece: a comparison

This sketch was posted to our Yahoo forum recently by a frequent contributor and ardent video astronomer Dale Holt, who wrote Here is a sketch that I made at the start of the week under very hazy conditions, using my 20" and Watec 120n+ video camera. Delphinus isn't usually associated with galaxies but this one is worth checking out.

Patrick Maloney (DeepSkyBagger on Stargazers Lounge) later responded by posting his own sketch made at the eyepiece with the comment Very faint. Small and elongated. No central brightening evident and no other structure seen. Best seen at x375.

I'd like to thank both Dale and Patrick for letting me reproduce their work on this website. I've flipped Dale's sketch to match the East-West alignment in both sketches.

I found the contrast between these two sketches interesting (Patrick's is much closer to what I normally see). Additionally, the "x375" comment Patrick made probably isn't far from the scale of Dale's sketch.

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