Attending my very first star party I only wished I was able to arrive earlier as it was already dark once I arrived but to no avail I was able to get setup and got things going in quick order. What was humorous at first was that i had a hard time finding Polaris as there was too many stars! I'm so use to minimum viewing conditions around my house here in Rochester that the whole sky became this flurry of points of light but once I got my head into the game things progressed quickly.
As Dean mentioned the temp and humidity was not good for imaging after midnight but it did allow many people to see some of the items in the sky without hesitation such as the Ring Nebula, Dumbbell Nebula and many of the star clusters like M13-15 & for me the first time seeing M02. Of all the images I was able to take the only one I could get a few good frames in black & white was a shot of part of M31 and Caldwell 14. But with very few frames and not a lot of definition and very short exposures before the humidity zapped the night.
It was a great time meeting everyone in attendance and hope to get to the next one before it gets dark so I can see everyone before spending the night starring at a computer image screen and losing what night vision I have.
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