/ // Cygnus v1.2 // by Eric Smith (c)2006 // Freeware / TITLE "Cygnus" AUTO SELECT TEXT "Cygnus" "The Celestial Swan" USER 21:53:24 +47d16m00s "Cocoon Nebula" "aka IC 5146 . . . Look for open cluster" "of 20 stars within. Small detached patch 10min WSW Mag.7.2, size 12min " USER 21:32:12 +48d26m00s "OC M39" "aka NGC 7092." USER 21:00:36 +54d33m00s "PN NGC 7008" "Oval shaped with central star" "and star at one end. Mag 10.7 Size .03 degrees" USER 21:12:54 +47d22m00s "Dark Nebula" "Barnard 361 " "Look for triangular shape with rounded points" USER 21:14:12 +46d16m00s "PN NGC 7048" "" "Very faint star is positioned NW of center" USER 21:06:18 +47d51m00s "PN NGC 7026." "" "Mag 10.9 Very small and very close to 63 cygni, mag 4 star." " Double nucleus with mag 14 central star." " Two double stars w/in 1 degree west and south. This is a tough one! " USER 19.44.48 +50d31m00s "PN NGC 6826" "Blinking Nebula" " Bright blue-green disk. Look for central star and fainter outer disk" USER 20:55:39 +47d24m48s "OC NGC 6991" "" "About 100 stars in a .5 degree field. Look for a hazy patch ESE of the bright star - ." " nebula IC 5076. Filter may be necessary" USER 21:11:12 +45d39m00s "OC NGC 7039" "" "Look for an asterism of a Christmas Tree w/ top pointing west." " Cluster is in northern side of tree." USER 20:58:48 +44d20m00s "EN NGC 7000" "North American Nebula" "aka Caldwell 20 - Very faint and very large roughly 2 degrees" " square. Best viewed with a filter. Look for stars at Miami and New York and Houston" " with a mag 3 star just off California coast." USER 20:47:48 +44d22m00s "EN aka IC 5067" "Pelican Nebula" "" "Incl IC 5070. Very faint and very large roughly 1 degree square." " Mag 4 star in center." USER 20:23:54 +38d32m00s "OC M29" "NGC 6913" "50 stars, brightest mag 8.6, just south of Sadr." " Best at low magnification." USER 20:50:00 +31d00m00s "EN NGC 6960" "Veil Nebula" "incl NGC 6979, 6992, and 6995. Roughly 3 degrees square." " Will require additional slewing to see all. Best seen with filter" USER 19:41:18 +40d11m00s "OC NGC 6819" "" "150 stars is faint but rich" USER 20:12:00 +38d21m00s "EN NGC 6888" "Cresent Nebula" "very faint, illuminated by a mag 7.4 double star." "size - 19min x 9min." USER 21:07:06 +42d14m00s "PN NGC 7027" "" "bright but small and lit by a mag 16.3 star" USER 19:30:42 +27d58m00s "DS Albireo" "aka Beta Cygni" " This blue-orange double has a seperation of 34sec." USER 20:47:30 +36d29m00s "Double Star" "aka Lambda Cygni" "White-pale blue pair has a sep of only 54sec" USER 21:08:52 +38d57m00s "Double Star" "aka 61 Cygni" "Oange pair, a sep = 28min" USER 19:54:58 +41d52m17s "Triple Star" "" "A double star orbiting another star. There is also a planet in orbit here as well." USER 19:41:48 +50d31m30s "Double Star" "16 Cygni" "Separation of 39arcsec. A planet, orbits one of these stars" #END