[Chaos-l] Observing Report

[Mark South]

Wish I could have been there and hope to go to the next stargazing  
session!
My favorite objects for summer are the Sagittarius nebulae (esp. the  
Lagoon and Eagle) and the M24 star cloud.
Mark

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




On May 31, 2008, at 2:26 AM, Michael Hrivnak wrote:

> Tonight was a decent night for observing, and many enjoyable objects  
> were
> found.
>
> We had three scopes and at least one set of binoculars.  Observing  
> set off
> around 9pm under humid but clear skies.  I could never get past  
> about 150x
> all night without fuzzing out.  M5 was spectacular, I saw the Leo  
> Triplet all
> in one field of view with a 35mm Panoptic, saw some spiral detail on
> Whirlpool, etc.  Looking at Ursa Minor, skies were no better than 5th
> magnitude.  To the South, things were much better as they always are  
> at
> Farrington, although we didn't do any benchmarks with stars that way.
>
> Around 11:30, the wind picked up.  By 11:40 we noticed some clouds  
> approaching
> from the NW, and by 11:50 the sky was covered.  We all packed up.   
> By 12:05,
> I was nearly done packing up, and the sky was clearing.  By 12:10,  
> it was
> clear as a bell, as it still is right now.
>
> I call it a very successful evening.  Kumar brought his parents, who  
> seemed to
> enjoy themselves quite a bit.  I hope to get out again when the bad  
> weather
> clears around Monday or Tuesday.
>
> Michael
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