[Chaos-l] Dark Sky site last night...

[Steve Meister]

The trip out went very well. There were 5 of us out there. I would estimate
magnitude 5 sky - I had trouble sometimes spotting CVn 20 (mag. 4.7, and
directly overhead). I would rate seeing as fair to good.

It was a great night for galaxies, with CVn, Virgo, and Coma B right
overhead in the early evening. 

It was fairly dry, and not too cold. Some clouds started rolling in about 2
AM, so that's when we packed up.

Steve

-----Original Message-----
From: chaos-l-bounces at rtpnet.org [mailto:chaos-l-bounces at rtpnet.org] On
Behalf Of Jayme Hanzak
Sent: Sunday, May 20, 2007 4:45 PM
To: Mark South
Cc: Chapel Hill Astronomical Observation Society
Subject: Re: [Chaos-l] Venus and Crescent Moon Pair up

Mark South <md_south at mac.com> writes:
>I'm sure lots of folks saw Venus and the Cresent Moon paired up 
>Saturday?  I think it was extraordinarily beautiful.  Attached is a 
>photo I took.
>Mark South
>Mark

Hi Mark, It was a fantastic night. I went to Jordan Lake to help Mickey Jo
Sorrell and Richard McColman the Morehead CHAOS members. The crowd was a
good size of some where around 75-100 people. We looked at Mercury, Venus,
the Moon and Saturn. We even had a weather balloon pass by the Moon and
Venus looking like a third star. I tracked the weather balloon and the
observers were quite taken by it. I too got a photo.

Hey, how was the dark sky site trip?


Jayme Hanzak
Special Projects Engineer
jhanzak at unctv.org
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