[Chaos-l] Good Conditions Tuesday Night

[Allen Davis]

It was actually I think the best I have seen it in a long long time.  This
is I believe one of the advantages of the refracting scope......no
diffraction spikes at all, and just a clear path to the eye.  

It really was an astounding view.  allen

-----Original Message-----
From: chaos-l-bounces at rtpnet.org [mailto:chaos-l-bounces at rtpnet.org] On
Behalf Of Robert Nielsen
Sent: Monday, August 22, 2011 10:26 PM
To: Chaos-l at rtpnet.org
Subject: [Chaos-l] Good Conditions Tuesday Night

Everyone,

I know it's a "school night" ... but the Clear Sky Clock for Tuesday night
is looking especially good!   If you have a chance, you might want to get
out and check out something in the night sky ... even if it is only the
Double Double in Lyra.

Last Saturday night at Medoc, I brought my refractor to try to see some dark
nebulae.  But when I pointed it at the Double Double, I was awestruck!   The
sky was very still, each star in the wider pair split into another perfectly
clear pair, and I could clearly see the magnitude difference in Epsilon1.
Perhaps I was hallucinating, but the magnitude difference also translated
into a slight color difference.   It was easily the best I've seen it in
that scope.

Robert
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