Re: [Utah-astronomy] Morning sky
Hi Jim: I actually worked on your parallelogram this weekend, get ready.... When I get into "work mode" and don't come up for air for weeks at a time, I sometimes have to let the sky go, myself. Ah, the inconveniences of having to earn a living... I picked-up a fisheye lens for my trusty old Pentax-K last fall, shot some tests in the backyard. I can tell you that the moon will light things up like daylight with only very short exposures. Every frame had a blue sky, looked like daytime with only a quarter-moon. You gotta love those 15x70's. At the Bino-star-party last June, Bruce Grim and I were knocking-down the Messier objects as fast as we aimed the binoculars. Saturday night, when I had Saturn in the eyepiece, I tried to get my wife and daughter out to see it, to no avail. I was a bit stunned...one of the "wonders" of the universe, you can see it from your own back-yard, and they wouldn't budge from their comfortable, warm house! Chuck --- Jim Gibson <xajax99@yahoo.com> wrote:
Chuck This is Jim Gibson your friendly need-a-parallelogram guy. Nature woke me up at 3 AM and before sitting on the thrown I opened the bathroom window to check the sky. What I saw was a typical Utah hi-pressure cloudless sky.
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Chuck I thought several times while I was out there that it would have been nice to have the parallelograms there. I saw Vega north and behind Hercules so I tried to find the ring nubula (M57). This was my first shot at it, but the moon was so bright I couldn't see the parallelogram below Vega. Even looking thru the Binos I couldn't tell which ones might be Sulafat or Sheliak or a fuzzy thing in the area. I will have to give it another shot. I can't tell you how much fun was. To tell it, it seems like nothing but it was a blast. Jim Chuck Hards <chuckhards@yahoo.com> wrote:Hi Jim: I actually worked on your parallelogram this weekend, get ready.... When I get into "work mode" and don't come up for air for weeks at a time, I sometimes have to let the sky go, myself. Ah, the inconveniences of having to earn a living... I picked-up a fisheye lens for my trusty old Pentax-K last fall, shot some tests in the backyard. I can tell you that the moon will light things up like daylight with only very short exposures. Every frame had a blue sky, looked like daytime with only a quarter-moon. You gotta love those 15x70's. At the Bino-star-party last June, Bruce Grim and I were knocking-down the Messier objects as fast as we aimed the binoculars. Saturday night, when I had Saturn in the eyepiece, I tried to get my wife and daughter out to see it, to no avail. I was a bit stunned...one of the "wonders" of the universe, you can see it from your own back-yard, and they wouldn't budge from their comfortable, warm house! Chuck --- Jim Gibson wrote:
Chuck This is Jim Gibson your friendly need-a-parallelogram guy. Nature woke me up at 3 AM and before sitting on the thrown I opened the bathroom window to check the sky. What I saw was a typical Utah hi-pressure cloudless sky.
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--- Jim Gibson <xajax99@yahoo.com> wrote:
I saw Vega north and behind Hercules so I tried to find the ring nubula (M57). This was my first shot at it, but the moon was so bright I couldn't see the parallelogram below Vega. Even looking thru the Binos I couldn't tell which ones might be Sulafat or Sheliak or a fuzzy thing in the area. I will have to give it another shot.
Remember that M-57 is a small object...even in the binos it will appear as a dim star.
I can't tell you how much fun was. To tell it, it seems like nothing but it was a blast.
Some of my best times under the stars have been alone. You can be alone with your thoughts and the universe, utterly at peace. Chuck __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com
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