[Chaos-l] Observing Report

[Jayme Hanzak]

Thanks for the report Michael. I had the same thing happen here in northern orange with the clouds.  I finally went in around 2am. I looked at Jupiter at around 200X and I was just able to see the bands. I might as well as have been looking through a glass of water.

Do you want to look at some galaxies. Here is an interesting website.

http://www.astro.washington.edu/west/rc3/index.html

I hope you have a few hours.

Jayme

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Hrivnak" <mhrivnak at hrivnak.org>
To: chaos-l at rtpnet.org
Sent: Saturday, May 31, 2008 2:26:37 AM (GMT-0500) Auto-Detected
Subject: [Chaos-l] Observing Report

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