[Chaos-l] Observing this weekend

[Michael Hrivnak]

There was some nice observing last night.  It was a remarkably clear night, 
and about as dark as you could expect at Farrington.  I brought my Orion 8" 
Dob, Jon was there with his 9.75" SCT with motorized tracking, and Mark 
brough the heavy artillery, his (I think) 15" Dob.

Several friends came out to partake in the views, and a father-son duo joined 
us.  I didn't catch their names, but the son was telling us about Greek 
mythology relating to the constellations.  They have a small telescope of 
their own, and I think we'll see more of them in the future.

The object of the night was probably the Veil Nebula through Mark's scope.  It 
was quite vivid, and very impressive.  We saw quite a few objects, but by 
about 11:30, we were feeling the Moon's wrath.

I'm planning to head out there again tonight.  If anyone is interested, I'll 
be there hopefully by 8:45 at the latest, and I'll probably stay until the 
Moon spoils my fun.  In fact, I'll probably be out again tomorrow night as 
well.  Especially since my first two months in this hobby have been so 
cloudy, I'm going to really enjoy these few days!

Michael

On Monday 03 September 2007 4:16:18 pm you wrote:
> Did any observing take place at Jordan Lake this weekend?  I'm always glad
> to see someone come up with a silver lining for this summer's drought.
> Walter
>
> On 9/1/07, Michael Hrivnak <mhrivnak at hrivnak.org> wrote:
> > There is an observing session tonight scheduled for Farrington, but I
> > think
> > I'm going to save it for tomorrow.  The cloud forecast looks much better
> > for
> > tomorrow night.  I'll probably be out to Farrington (the ramp to the
> > left) between 10pm and 10:30pm tomorrow night (Sunday) with a friend or
> > three.  If
> > the seeing is good, I'll probably stay out until the Moon crashes the
> > party.
> >
> > For what it's worth, the drought means that the lake is dangerously low.
> > Thus, there will probably be far fewer boaters around than normal.
> >
> > Anyone else up for going out tomorrow night?
> >
> > Michael
> >
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