[Chaos-l] Brief Observing Report 5/17 at Farrington Point

[Michael Hrivnak]

Last night was my first observing session with my new (to me) scope, a 1999 
Orion 8" dob.  I had a great time and was able to find a few objects on my 
own before joining Mark.  I learned a tremendous amount from him about how to 
find things, what to look for, and what equipment will help in the search.  
I'm off to Big Bang in a few minutes to pick up some things, and probably 
I'll be out there again tonight with a friend or two.

In particular, I'm very much looking forward to getting a telrad and a 
right-angle finder.  I found M13 last night with my scope, but I gave up on 
M92 because of the contortionist tricks necessary to look through the finder.  
I used "Turn Left at Orion" and found it to be very helpful as a beginner.

My membership application will go out in tomorrow's mail.  Thanks to everyone 
for all the advice and help so far.  I look forward to continuing!

Michael

On Monday 18 June 2007 3:09:41 pm Mark South wrote:
> Hi,
> We had an impromptu observing session at Farrington Point Last
> night.    The weather was nice and clear the entire evening.  Seeing
> 4/5  Transparency 3/5  Cloud cover 5/5
> Steve, Andrew, Michael, my Dad and I were there.
> I had the opportunity to view Jupiter, M13 and M4 Globulars, Sombrero
> Galaxy, the Ring Nebula, Whirlpool, NGC 3565, Lagoon, Trifid, Omega
> (Swan) Nebulae, M24 (star-field).   I was happy to see lots of bands
> on Jupiter-- including the shadow of Io very late in the morning.
> Steve, Andrew, or Michael feel free to share your thoughts/observations.
> Mark
>
>
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