The Chennai night sky has been brutal since I bought my first telescope, but I had a rare clear window some weeks ago, which is when I dragged the scope to my balcony and saw all of these:
- NGC: 6383, 6416, 6355, 6563, 6425, 6281, 6563, 6404, 6396, 6242, 6530
- Antalova 2
- TR 27
- Pismis 24
- Trumpler 24, 26
- M21, M23
- Collinder 367
- TR27
- Ptolemy’s Cluster
- Butterfly Cluster
- Lagoon Nebula
Gear:
- Celestron StarSense Explorer 12" Dobsonian
- GSO Coma Corrector
- Explore Scientific 24 + 14mm 82° eyepieces
Just shows what a 12" aperture can do even from the heart of Chennai (I live literally 200m from CMBT Bus Terminus, so you can have an idea how congested/light polluted the area is!). The scope punched through the haze and light pollution beautifully. The views weren’t the best of course, and in some cases I had to really strain my eyes to make out the object, and there were other things I thought I saw, but didn’t note them down because I wasn’t sure.