[Chaos-l] Looks gorgeous: Farrington session?

[Stewart-Taylor, Jon]

Hi all.  Michael H., Kumar P, and i did manage to get in a couple of
hours of pre-moonrise observing on what proved to be a very nice night
indeed.  The Milky Way was as nicely defined as i'd ever seen it from
Farrington.  The night wasn't particularly steady (Jupiter was a bit
fuzzy), but was very transparent.  In addition to the usual tourist
traps (which all looked very nice) i managed to track down 7009 (Saturn
nebula), mu Cephi (which i incorrectly remembered as a carbon star: it's
"just" a red supergiant; S Cephi is the carbon star) and a batch of the
Cepheus open clusters.

A very nice night.

J.

PS: Kumar, i accidently kept your flashlight.  Let me know if/when you
need it back!

J.

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Jon Stewart-Taylor:  jcst at tripod.net
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