Above Cesi!

Some three nights ago, myself and Richard took the car we rented and headed out to the hills above this little medieval town of Cesi, in the general direction of the site where the Cesi Observatory is suppose to be.

We went up the hill and it seemed forever as we keep going up, up and up. But the observatory was not in sight and the road was getting narrower and darker and there weren't any lights around, except for the city light way, waaay below us! :-P

We finally decided we have gone up far enough and headed down towards a clearing which we had passed earlier. We set up our campsite there awhile and pointed the Bresser M-152 heavenward. We weren't disappointed! Even with our naked eyes, we managed to catch the glorious view of the Milky Way as it snaked its way through in the east-west direction of the sky!

The best part of the night was that I finally got to see the Andromeda Galaxy! It was a bright wispy white disc through the 25mm eyepiece and a little more grander through the barlow 2x. :-D I have been trying to catch that elusive object for the past year... Besides that, I caught another Messier, namely M13 within the Hercules constellation. Great stuff!

After about one and half hours of star gazing we headed down the hills feeling satisfied with a good night's session 'in the dark'. Funny thing was that I kept hearing people talking and laughing in a distance. I thought they were noises being carried from below the city. But when we drove downwards later, I saw another car not too far from where we were stationed earlier. We didn't stop to find out or ask if the couple in the car needing any assistance... ;-)

It was a good adventure in the night!