I had a proper observing night the day before yesterday - the first one in a month! So I scribbled down a quick observing plan on a piece of paper, without indicating the nature of objects, and hurried outside to my C8.
When I looked at 7006, I didn't know whether it was a globular or a galaxy. I saw a concentrated nucleus and tried to determine if there was any elongation. When I averted my eyes in different ways, I thought that sometimes I saw 'vertical' elongation (I don't know what vertical was), and sometimes 'horizontal'. In the end I decided that there was no elongation at all.
Today I looked up this globular in O'Meara's The Caldwell Objects, and his drawing shows a cross - one horizontal bar and one vertical bar! (And some more, dimmer bars.) Has anyone here seen them too?
Dmitri
When I looked at 7006, I didn't know whether it was a globular or a galaxy. I saw a concentrated nucleus and tried to determine if there was any elongation. When I averted my eyes in different ways, I thought that sometimes I saw 'vertical' elongation (I don't know what vertical was), and sometimes 'horizontal'. In the end I decided that there was no elongation at all.
Today I looked up this globular in O'Meara's The Caldwell Objects, and his drawing shows a cross - one horizontal bar and one vertical bar! (And some more, dimmer bars.) Has anyone here seen them too?
Dmitri
