Andrew Cooper
Jul 17, 2023    Oregon Star Party, Ochoco Mts, OR (map)
25cm f/4.5 Newtonian, Holoholo @ 71x
Seeing: 7 Transparency: 7 Moon: 0%

Bright and obvious, quite small, easily mistaken for stellar at low magnification, a well defined oval shape about 30" x 20" aligned east to west. vivid teal green, central star visible with averted vision, a 10th magnitude star visible 3' west-northwest

Andrew Cooper
Jul 3, 2003    Whipple Observatory, Santa Rita Mts., Arizona (map)
46cm f/4.5 Deep Violet

Beautiful little planetary, an even blue-green disk surrounding a bright central star, the edge of the disk is sharp, no other structure apparent

Rev. T.W. Webb
May 19, 1885    Hardwick, Herefordshire, England (map)
94mm f/18 Tully Achromat

Planetary, very curious. D'A. 'unica prope inter nebulas.' I found very luminous disk, much like a considerale star out of focus. H., 35" diam.; I saw 15" or 20" with 3-7/10 in.: D'A. 23" x 18". Sm., pale blue. H., very small nucleus; Bird, '63 12 in. silver mirror, like a 10 mg. star; D'A. 11-12 mg., Huggins, gaseous spectrum; the first of these surprising discoveries, '64, Aug. 29. Nearly half way between Polaris and γ Draconis in pole of Ecliptic. About 40' np, Bird finds a delicate triple star, 8.4, 8.5, 11.0 between them. [GSC 4212:1517?]

― Celestial Objects for Common Telescopes, T. W. Webb, 1917

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