Crumby's Telescope Tomfoolery Notes - Messier 33

All righty then. I have tried out a great many strategies, but the Pinwheel Galaxy is another one that can't be espied from the east pasture. All I got from my efforts was warbler neck, a serious aggravation of the spine where it hooks up with the noggin. About the only way to avoid warbler neck is to transmigrate yourself into a male great-tailed grackle (Quiscalus mexicanus). The male grackle is pre-adapted with a noggin that can point straight up and even a ways back over his shoulder. But because his eyes are affixed to the side of his noggin instead of in the front, the male grackle can't actually see straight up, so that particular transmigration aint the solution, either. So probably, espying M 33 from the east pasture is impossible, maybe.

However, the south horizon offers more natural viewing opportunities. Even those too ignorant for transmigrations may espy the naked celestial wonders of Piscis Austrinus, comfortably. Plus, for the nonce, one may also comfortably espy the stars of Grus, the Crane, including Al Na'ir and Beta Grus.

Anyway, and despite the moon shining right down the Great Red Tube almost, we espied several of the interesting double stars that habitate in Piscis Austrinus yesterday evening, those ones being; Beta, Gamma, Delta 241, Upsilon, h5311 and Eta. Due to the ornery conditions, Eta was a tad vague from the cleanly separated perspective.

As Ray pointed out yesterday, we are back on Goddess Time. Last night, as a consequence, the skies appeared to darken sooner. Confusing!!!!