[Chaos-l] Last night and tonight

[Chris Schelin]

Glad you had a good evening.  I got out in the front yard for a little over
an hour last night.  I was very pleased that, even being in the middle of
town and pretty much facing a street light, I was just able to make out part
of the Veil.  Also finally got my first look at the Dumbbell this season.
 But I was disappointed that I wasn't able to resolve either globular I
looked at - M71 and M15.

On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 11:31 AM, Allen Davis
<starstorm151 at embarqmail.com>wrote:

> 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.  ****
>
> ** **
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> 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.****
>
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>
> 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.****
>
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> 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****
>
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> E. Allen Davis****
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> starstorm151 at embarqmail.com****
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> "M'Illumino              "I am enlightened****
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> D'Immenso"              by the immensity."****
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-- 
Chris Schelin
Minister of Youth and Congregational Life
Roxboro Baptist Church
Roxboro, NC

(sent from my abacus)

"With a wise silence we do honor to the inexpressible." - Pseudo-Dionysius
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