Thank you Richard for the report. Since I am new at this stuff, I was waiting for someone with more experience to share his thoughts. I did noticed some glare from the north, but since it was my first observing without city lights, I thought it was good. I was happy to see how much my little telescope can pick up under better conditions that my back yard or my street light polluted front porsh. Definetely I will try to get away from the city as much as I can. I also enjoyed the better views from the 8" and 12.5" scopes. (I didn't make it to the larger ones). I also liked Lisa pointing out the constellations. Oh yeah, the moon shadows on Jupiter were great. David --- Richard Tenney <retenney@yahoo.com> wrote:
Saturday at the "pit 'n pole" in Rush Valley the sky was much clearer. Unfortunately I arrived late and a bit frustrated from getting lost (sorry to bark at you Jim!), joining a large group (including my 2 compainions from the night before) that was quickly dissipating about 10-ish. While it has a better South-Western horizon than the gravel pit (in spite of some light pollution from the chem depot), overall isn't a better site, and was actually much colder than the gravel pit ironically. Again I managed to bag approx another 25 objects, spending most of the night hunting galaxies in Leo and UMa; some nice galaxy cluster surprises, e.g., NGC 3681,3684, 3686, and 3691 in the same eyepiece field (@115x in the 22 Nagler), and 3185, 3190, and 3193 in another view, etc. Lots of fun multiple galaxy pairs, trios, and quads, including groups near NGC 3395 and NGC 3607.
Saw the beautiful dual transit on Jupiter (with superb color banding in the 17.5") about 11:20, and was treated to an easy find of Omega Centauri (my first view ever) skimming along just above the horizon approx. 2 a.m. (just two of us left by then). I'd sure love to see that baby overhead before I die in a big dob under clear dark skies...
Tired (yet happy) after two nights of getting to bed after 3am and not being able to sleep in past 8. Yawn.
(Sorry, I suspect this post is a yawner too), -Rich
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