[Chaos-l] Farrington Monday night

[Robert Nielsen]

Michael,

I think we might be gathering up a bunch of articles about MASP for 
the November CHAOS Newsletter ... so you'll be able to read in more 
detail what happened while we were there.   I was very happy to see 
that we might have had the second highest number of attendees from a 
club (not sure about that number, but it was close), and yes, the 
skies were the clearest I have EVER seen them at MASP.   The 
observing wasn't like it might be in New Mexico, but it was very good.

The constellations that were directly overhead during the night ... 
Cygnus, Andromeda, Perseus ... were about the best I had seen 
them.   I had just gotten a new 2-inch eyepiece for my 
birthday/Christmas, and I spent most of the time looking at things 
that require a wide field to view like the Andromeda Galaxy and 
Messier objects like the Lagoon Nebula and such.    M31 really was 
about the best I had ever seen it, but I'm not one of the people like 
Mark South or out former member Greg Dillon that drive 3-4 hours to 
find REALLY dark skies ... so it might have been normal under less 
light-polluted skies.

But it really was a great time.  Where else could you start out 
looking at Sagittarius and then work your way to the Veil Nebula and 
end up looking at Orion all before 3 AM?  Lots of stuff to see ... 
and nary a cloud in the sky (except for Tuesday night).

Robert

At 12:58 AM 10/15/2007, you wrote:
>Folks,
>
>I'll be at Farrington by 8pm tomorrow (Monday) night, if anyone would like to
>join me.
>
>How about some stories from MASP?  I'd love to hear about the weekend- it
>looked like ideal conditions!  I spent the weekend under clear skies in a
>small Texas town, but unfortunately I did not have access to a scope.
>
>Michael
>
>
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