 | On a remarkably warm, late summer night, 6 Dobsonian reflectors, all "Liteboxes" built by Barry Peckham of Hawaii, spontaneously gathered at Lake Sonoma. Finally free of city fog and non-stop Mars hysteria, we hardly gave the Red Planet a glance. The smallest prototype Litebox, my 10", is on the far left, dwarfed by the other 12" to 18" Liteboxes. Just the same, here are the deep sky objects I observed last night with my scope (all these images are plucked from the web). The moon rose about 2am and we were back in SF by 3:30. |
 | M101 - Spiral Galaxy in Ursa Major |
 | M16 - Eagle Nebula with open star clusters |
 | M17 - Swan (or Omega) Nebula |
 | M20 - Trifed Nebula |
 | M22 - globular star cluster |
 | M23 - open star cluster |
 | M31 - Andromeda Galaxy, with M32 and M110 satellite galaxies |
 | M33 - Pinwheel Galaxy |
 | M45 - The Pleiades, or Subaru |
 | M51 - Whirlpool Galaxy |
 | M57 - Ring Nebula |
 | M72 - globular star cluster |
 | M73 - open star cluster |
 | M8 - Lagoon Nebula |
 | NGC6992 - Veil Nebula |
 | NGC7000 - North American Nebula |
 | NGC7009 - Saturn Nebula |
 | NGC7293 - Helix Nebula |
 | Perseid Double Cluster |