Rosamond Report
- From: "Starlord" <starlord@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 25 Dec 2005 10:29:25 -0800
I drove up to the corner and by 5pm was setup,
I aimed Galatica at Venus to start with, and almost
right away I had two guys stop to talk and look.
One was walking and the other riding a bikecycle with
a baby carrier to hual his stuff.
The walking guy really didn't know anything about
the stars and planets, he even had the idea that the
sun was burning fuel like a normal fire, that it
had a shell of air around it! I gave him a lession
on how come venus is seen the way it is and that
the sun and other stars where/are fusion reactors.
I don't think it soaked in.
The bike guy was a bit better, only he has the idea
that as we grow older and spread outward, that the
laws of phyics we use now will change as well the
speed of light. He has a Celstron EQ mounted scope
at home, but some drunk frend grabed it one night
and forced it to move fast without dis-engaging
something ( cluch? ) and now that doesn't work, not
sure but sounded like the dec gear is shot. He said
he wants to see if he can make something that'll do
the same thing but without all the hardware.
During the next hour or so, I had around 10 more
people pull in and come over to have a look see. One
guy even handed me a bowl of chili!
Had one guy pull in with a pickup and came over to see
Mars, he said he'd been told that he ever got lost in
the woods, to find the "EASTERN" star and he could find
his way out. So I told him there was no such star, but
if he was in a place to see the sky, to find the NORTH
star and face it, then to his left would be west and
his right would be east and his back south. and if he
could watch the stars, they would move from east to west
and that would help.
After the last folks left and things slowed down, I watched
as Orion came up and when it was high enough I hunted
for M42 and found it. This night I had more EP's with me
so I used m42 as a testing target.
25mm All image good, if small, wide field of view.
17mm no name sharp image.
17mm Telvue really ulta sharp image.
10mm orion : ok image started to see details in gas clouds
6mm orion : not the best, could see as with from the 17mm on downward
4 of the trapeazium stars, but had to ajust focus
slowly.
4.8 Negler about the same.
Take note: all this done with orion about 40degrees up.
Moved over to Mars, 25mm and 17mm images fine, 10mm downward
images became fuzzy, 6mm and 4.8mm image was YUK.
Waiting until Saturn just cleared the tree tops I used the
17mm on it. Will maybe use it more tonight.
Last hour up there about the only thing I saw was the cop
cars running all over the place, seemed like every 10 mins
they where heading someplace with lights, etc. going
or the fire trucks would be heading out.
No wind but the cold started to really set in, so I packed
up to come home, that's when I found the $10 bill stuck
in the donation jar which I had not really set out.
Got home, checked weather, found a slight front was moving
threw overhead, most likly cause of bad viewing of mars.
--
The Lone Sidewalk Astronomer of Rosamond
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