Re: Tempting the Weather Gods

Ya I had Galatica up there, figured I'd give it a run as a sidewalk
telescope, if it stays clear I'll be there tonight, as it'll be darker as FF
will be closing down early. With the normal DRY ( even if cold ) air back in
the desert, the ep didn't fog up. I had Mars in view, I did notice one
thing, while mars was low, ( this to MY eyesight ) I didn't get a good
image, but as it got higher up it came in nice. Now this could have been
because of mirror cooling down and as I said my eyesight wich has gone
downhill a bit over the years, it was ok with glasses on. I was able to get
a good view of Venus before it got to low. I had forgotten to bring any
other EP's with me so my 17mm telvue was all that I had to test with.

It was nice using it in some ways, as it's lighter in weight than B8 and way
shorter too.


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"Phil Wheeler" <w6tuh-ng7@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Starlord wrote:
>> Just came back from the corner, and they could name a song "The Night
>> Rosamond Died" as about the only two places making any money where the
>> super market and the gas stations. I watched the guys in the Foster
>> freeze scrb down the place as in the 3 hours I was up there, maybe 10
>> cars when threw their drive-threw.
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> So, If you were up there for 3 hrs (and I assume with the 10") did you
> have some success?
>
> Tonight the fog here cleared briefly and I had two very short successes:
>
> 1) First use of my 90 mm ETX OTA on my Bogen-mounted UA Microstar. Nice
> views of Saturn and M42/trapezium. A very stable alt-az configuration. It
> will likely be my standard grab-and-go, unless I want the wider views
> afforded by my AT-8080 refractor.
>
> 2) First use of the Sky Window which arrived today. Very little time (fog
> came back) but I had no trouble setting it on a table and taking a look at
> the Orion region with my 9x63 binos while standing. Normal arrangement
> will be on a short tripod with a geared head while sitting -- more comfort
> and more control -- and with my 15x70s
>
> All of the above took about 20 minutes (that's how much clear time I had)
> with three others taking nice looks at Saturn.
>
> All in all, a very successful evening!
>
> Phil


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