Saturday night at Wolf Creek turned out to pretty amazing after all. (Siegfried, you should have stayed!) We had much better transparency after the late afternoon storm cleared out the air. Kim Hyatt and his brother showed up as well as Rich Tenney and Debbie (?) from Utah Valley. Debbie was finding all sorts of obscure little gems in Rich's 16" dob...she's got quite a memory. We hunted down Neptune, Uranus and Pluto as well. I think we made a few more Wolf Creek converts this new moon. I should have pic's of the weekend up on my site soon...check back in a few days. Dave Bennett P.S. Brent forgot to mention that we were seeing the central star of the Ring in his 10" f/10 with certainty. I couldn't quite hold it like I could in Don Colton's 18" but it was definitely there. Thanks Brent, Siegfried, Don, Rich, and Debbie for the wonderful views. dlb Wednesday, July 24, 2002, at 07:54 PM, Brent Watson wrote:
Wolf Creek was very good on Friday night. I took my 10" f10 and looked at several double stars. Perhaps the most memorable was that we split Beta Delphinium. It is a very close double (.5") and mag 4.0 and 4.9. This was a real test, with even the Clark not doing any better than the 10". We also looked with the 18" but not any better split.
We looked at many others like Nu Scorpii and Eta Coronae. Had a great time. I left Saturday morning, and I heard that Saturday night was clouded/rained out.
Alpha Scorpii (Antares) was split in all scopes at the first of the night.
Brent
David Dunn
PS - How was Wolf Creek?
