[Chaos-l] Dark Site tonite??

[Michael Hrivnak]

Tonight was excellent at Farrington, but not until late.

I arrived about 11pm.  It was quite hazy, and Steve reported that the haze had 
set in about 25 minutes prior.  I decided to set up anyway.  Around 11:45, 
the haze lifted, and the sky became very clear.  It was also fairly dry and 
warm.  I never put on a jacket tonight.

I toured lots of galaxies in Leo.  It was amazing how much detail I could see, 
and I found myself running into unexpected galaxies while searching for 
others.  Most of the galaxy hunting was done with my Nagler 17mm, for a 
magnification of about 121.  That's the shortest focal length eyepiece in 
Nagler's line that comes as a 2", but I think a lot of these objects are 
bright enough that I should push them up to at least 160x to see more detail.

I also viewed several globular clusters.  M13 of course stole the show.  Just 
before I left around 2am, I viewed M13 and the Ring Nebula at 400x.  
Spectacular!  I could tell that stars would not focus to quite the precision 
I was used to, but it was still very close.  The Ring showed some nice color 
contrast near the edges.

Michael

On Friday 02 May 2008 15:07:25 Steve Meister wrote:
> Weather appears clear until 3 AM.  Any interest?
>
> Steve
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