[Chaos-l] Observed tonight

[Jon Stewart-Taylor]

Hi all.  Phil, Xun, and i did in fact make it out to Farrington  
tonight.  Conditions were excellent, beautifully clear, highly  
transparent.  The stars and planets were coming out well before the  
sky started to "properly" darken.  Once Polaris was visible, i was  
able to align the ETX quickly and easily using the new screweye finder  
i built yesterday (i'll try to post a picture tomorrow), and picked up  
the two double stars i needed early on.    Phil and Xun were tracking  
stuff down in Phil's 10" Meade SCT.

We basically did that until the moon was well up, then looked at it  
through the trees (lovely orangey-yellow color).

All in all a very nice night.  Phil, Xun, thanks for coming out.

J.
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