Good for you guys! Now if we can just get Patrick to switch to good ol' American degrees .... --- On Sat, 2/12/11, Jay Eads <jayleads@gmail.com> wrote:
From: Jay Eads <jayleads@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] A pleasant change To: "Utah Astronomy" <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Date: Saturday, February 12, 2011, 9:37 PM Yes, quite a bright night, but actually pretty nice and its pretty steady. So far I have nabbed 10 doubles and 6 open clusters. My favorite so far is NGC 2301, nice inverted Y asterism to it with a nice orange star near the center.
Mesonet is showing a temp of 40 degrees right now, (not sure I buy that so I am taking my digital thermometer out (I use it to measure the temp of the back of the mirror vs the air temp to see how long it takes to cool and IF they two ever meet (they usually don't). I think it is more around 30. Relative humidity is 40 percent now. Figures we get a great series of nights when the moon is heading toward full now. Oh well, that is what double and OC's are for (and the need to get my observing fix).
On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 9:21 PM, Patrick Wiggins <paw@wirelessbeehive.com>wrote:
Nice night tonight.
Looking at my observing log for the last ten sessions I see temperatures when I opened the observatory were:
-12 -1 -2 -1 -10 -10 -5 -5 -2 -1
But tonight's entry reads a comparatively balmy +3. Heat wave...
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