[Chaos-l] Update from Pettigrew

[Mark South]

This place is amazing.
I also saw m51 from there once in the 15 inch and I said to myself.  
"this is why I drove 3 hours in 20 degree weather" it looked like a  
photo

There is more than apeture fever... It's dark sky fever!

I'll be at farrington tonight and wish I were out there... But hey at  
least I'm out observing!
mark

Sent from my cell

On Mar 30, 2009, at 4:17 PM, Michael Hrivnak <mhrivnak at hrivnak.org>  
wrote:

> Robert and I had some great observing last night. We initially  
> fought the wind and had to move away from the lake, but once we got  
> setup again, the observing was incredible.
>
> Whirlpool was unbelievable. No averted vision needed. The arms were  
> clear as day.
>
> I observed over 100 galaxies, and I think Robert probably did the  
> same.
>
> We also looked at omega centauri through binoculars. It's huge!!!
>
> Tonight should be another great session. More to come later.
>
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