Michael, I can't go in the a.m. but next time you go give me an email, I sent you one. Would love to get an early start on some Herschels that are in those areas at a dark, cold site. Jay On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 4:22 PM, Michael Vanopstall <opstall@math.utah.edu>wrote:
Planning a galaxy observing session for tomorrow morning. Probably start about 4:00, somewhere east of the city. Looking for NGC galaxies in Leo and Messiers in Virgo/Coma cluster. If someone in your family is getting up early to go to Walmart or Target or something anyway, I'd love to have someone around to tell me when hypothermia is setting in.
I'm willing to drive about 1 1/2 hours from Salt Lake, if anyone has any suggestions. It looks like transparency will be OK, but not great. About the same as this morning. From town, M81/82 were fairly bright this morning in OK transparency (for once, I couldn't find M78 from my backyard, though). So I think if I can gain 1-2 naked eye magnitudes, I'll be able to find something.
If anyone wants to join me, we could talk about global warming while we're freezing cold...
---- Rev. Michael A. van Opstall Department of Mathematics, University of Utah Office: JWB 313 opstall@math.utah.edu
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