[Chaos-l] Last night and tonight

[Allen Davis]

Thanks to Alexey and Christi for joining us last night.  Jason came for a
while.  I set up my Takahashi 152 . I don't set it up as often as I should.
I have a loaner vehicle (Dodge Journey) while my Explorer is in the shop.
So the refractor fit the bill.  

 

Nice evening..Milky Way very  much in evidence.  It was actually a little
more transparent I think than Saturday.  The seeing was not terribly good,
although the globulars looked really nice even with the 6" scope.  I really
believe a well made 6" lens can outperform a larger reflector sometimes.  No
central obstruction. I also looked at some of the nebulae and M22 in Sag.
The double double in Lyra was nice, although not as good as it was in
Robert's 106 Saturday night.  Andromeda and its companions looked very good
with the 30mm Leitz giving only about 41x on this scope.  Jupiter was still
quite low when I decided to take down.it was getting very wet and I was a
bit tired as was Jason.  I got home around 130am.

 

I think I may plan to go back tonight for a while..the forecast and the CSC
look good for tonight, after that it deteriorates the next several days.
Hurricane Irene looks like it shifts further and further to the east each
time they give an update, which is probably a good thing.  But it will keep
things unsettled I imagine for the weekend.  We'll see.

 

Anyway, if anyone wishes to join me this evening let me know.  I need
practice setting up this NJP mount and polar aligning..it went smoothly last
night...I found that using the binoculars to identify the stars in the
vicinity of Polaris, and comparing to the polar finder really helped me home
in on North.  allen

 

E. Allen Davis

starstorm151 at embarqmail.com

 

"M'Illumino              "I am enlightened

D'Immenso"              by the immensity."

 

   -Ungaretti               -Ungaretti

 

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