90 Her = BU 130: Seeing is poor but it resolves momentarily to be just split in the diffraction, 1" [I don't think I saw it -- the PA was to the west, either SW or NW, but the PA in WDS is to the east... will save as a challenge from home.]
17H 53M 18.03S +40° 00' 28.6" P.A. 110 SEP 1.6 MAG 5.28,8.76 SP K3III DIST. 108.46 PC (353.8 L.Y.)
NGC 16: Bright nucleus and what looks like a double core? Diffuse halo & fading edges.
NGC 112: Small, fairly faint, gradually brighter to the middle, quasi-stellar nucleus, 3:1 WNW-ESE. [v13.6, Sc]
HGC 99: Three small glows close together in an arc or L shape. Each with quasi-stellar nucleus. Very small and faint, at the edge of direct vision. 333x. [a, b, c seen; d and e not seen].
NGC 7819: Sits as the diamond in a ring of stars. Diffuse 2:1 oval E-W, small bright core; faint and small overall [v13.5 SBb].
NGC 130: Small and round. [Not seen; this is a small group of four galaxies.]
NGC 39: Pretty faint, and small, with a round, broken and mottled halo, quasi-stellar nucleus, and a faint star inside the southern rim. 205x. [v13.5, Sc]
NGC 43: Faint, small, round halo with a small bright core elongated 2:1 E-W. [v12.6 SB0]
NGC 70: Seven faint galaxies. Three brightest and largest (NGC 70, 68, 71) in a triangle mingled with some faint stars. All are moderately faint, slightly elongated with bright cores. The other galaxies are scatters, much smaller and fainter: NGC 67 extremely small and to the SW of the NGC 70 trio; NGC 69 same description, to the south; NGC 72 slightly brighter, to the SE. At the far eastern edge of the field is the very small and faint glow of NGC 74. Like so many rice grains scattered... [In the photo NGC 70 has a sweeping spiral halo, which was not seen visually.]
NGC 76: Stellar nucleus, small and faint, diffuse halo slightly E-W elongated. [Close eastern companion MCG +05-01-073 not noticed.]
NGC 97: My notes mention three galaxies, which I sketched in a line, with a bright central one. However the actual galaxy does not have companions -- it's possible I misinterpreted the stars N and S of the NGC 97 as galaxy, either due to faintness or seeing. In any case, NGC 97 is bright, small, dominated by a large bright core and stellar nucleus, and very thin haze of a halo, slightly elongated N-S.
NGC 108: Stellar nucleus, very diffuse, faint round halo; core elongated E-W. [DSS shows a tie-fighter light appearance of the core and nucleus, and a ring halo.]
NGC 140: Stellar nucleus and a faint, relatively large mottled and disordered round halo. Three stars trail to the SE from the rim like a tail. [v13.2, Scd]
NGC 183 & AGC 71: Many other very faint glows in the area, too hard to draw; nice to just take them in. NGC 183 is the brightest and largest, stellar nucleus, round diffuse halo.
CGCG 500-74: 3:1, fairly small, fairly bright, direct vision, gradually brighter to middle halo.
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IC 43: Very faint and diffuse, need averted vision to see at first. Small, with a just stellar nucleus and a very faint mottled round halo. Another galaxy "felt" with averted vision, a quarter field to the north [IC 45, 15.3B]
NGC 233: Small, fairly faint, dominated by large core and diffuse and mottled halo [12.4v, E0]
NGC 243: 3:1 with strong mottling in core. Just to east of bright 10th mag star. [13.7v S].
Using the 10-inch I made the star hop down from Beta Ceti down through NGC 247 The Dusty Hand, to NGC 253 and the globular NGC 288 -- all of which were visible in the 50mm finder, if dimly in comparison to prior observations in the 20-inch. I then went in search of the Sculptor Dwarf. I spent a good while searching for the dwarf and thought I had some brown mass of a boarder visible when holding a yellow filter in front of the eyepiece, but nothing certain. The area was encroached by the Paseo Robles light dome. I went further down to NGC 300, probably the lowest declination DSO I've seen. Somehow it appeared better in the 50mm finder, brighter and more cohesive as a dim elongated glow, but highly broken and distorted in the 10-inch at 37x.
NGC 262: Stellar nucleus, bright round core; small. Halo is faint and somewhat elongated E-W from the core, with am "eyebrow" rim (possibly a detached arm) on the north side. [There is a 2MASS galaxy on the eastern rim which I did not make note of. 13.1v S0-a]
NGC 287: Very faint small elongation, N-S, moderately bright but small, with almost no halo. [14.0v, S0-a]
NGC 296: Near star. Gradually brighter to middle, 3:1, fairly large. [Seem I looked at the wrong one; the galaxy to the north UGC 567 is near a star, and what is more has a second galaxy, face on spiral UGC 566, nearby.]
NGC 282: Small and fairly faint, brighter core and 2:1 NE-SW. Hindered by the 8.4 mag star to the south.
NGC 315 Group: 5-6 very faint galaxies in a jagged line. Did not sketch since Steve called me over to look at 5 Cas, a pretty 2+1 double. [Could be I saw only 2 galaxies, the others unresolved stars -- I didn't have time to study this field.]
NGC 404: Bright nucleus and core, strong impression of spiral. Next to a very bright star to the SE which strongly interferes with the view--throws out diffraction spikes. [10.3v, E-S0. The spiral is an illusion -- I wonder if it is the concentric rings which show when doing a star test -- maybe I was out of focus?]
NGC 431: Bright compact round core, and 4:1 dim halo elongated 4:1 NE-SW. Suspect two other galaxies in the field. [likely just faint stars. 12.9v, SB0]
NGC 447: Large oval with bright round core with a foreground star just east of the core, NE-SW extensions coming from the core. There halo is very diffuse and round, very faint. There are three faint stars on the SW rim and some more scattered to the SW.
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