[Chaos-l] Tues and Wed nights

[Mark South]

I could be a dad any minute now!   I'll let everyone know when my son is born.   I'm going to have to make an excuse to my wife to buy a 36" starmaster for him. 
Mark

Mark South
http://web.mac.com/md_south

 
On Wednesday, April 30, 2008, at 01:59PM, "Robert Nielsen" <robertnielsen at nc.rr.com> wrote:
>Yeah ... 4 out of the 5 of us lasted until almost 1 PM ... and I'm worn 
>out!   But I must say, the 5th had a good excuse!
>
>Any news, Mark?
>
>Robert
>
>Michael Hrivnak wrote:
>> Last night was a lot of fun, so I'll be out again tonight by about 10:30.
>>
>> At least 5 people made it out last night, and 4 of us lasted until nearly 1am.  
>> It was very clear, but the seeing was only average at best.  The sky was 
>> particularly bright with the glow of light pollution, but I think that will 
>> be better tonight.
>>
>> We looked at quite a few objects with the new (to me) Starmaster.  Several 
>> edge-on galaxies showed very clear dust lanes.  Around 12:30, the Ring Nebula 
>> looked spectacular even through the glow of Chapel Hill's light pollution.  
>> Perhaps the view of the night was M13, no more than 40 degrees above the 
>> horizon and still well within the light pollution, with a 17mm Nagler 2" 
>> eyepiece in a televue 2x barlow. It was truly outstanding.
>>
>> Thanks to everyone who came out last night.  It was a lot of fun, and it was 
>> nice to have lots of suggestions on what to look at and where to find it.  
>> Observing with you folks is always a learning experience.
>>
>> Headlights were a real problem last night until probably about 11pm.  I will 
>> strongly consider setting up on the eastern fork tonight, unless someone else 
>> beats me to it.
>>
>> Michael
>>   
>
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