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Dean Johnson
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    We didn't get as much time as we thought, 2 hours, 6:30-8:30. Clouds rolled in and the Moon came up an hour before I thought it would.

    Still, we got a great look at Jupiter, 3 moons to the west and one to the east. I nabbed R Leporis for my carbon star observing program, still very red but not as pronounced as last year.

    We had a wonderful time looking at the Orion Nebula. Steve got one of those nifty 8mm Explore Scientific eyepieces. You'd have to see it to believe it! Only a hundred bucks! WOW! I had a severe case of "eyepiece envy". Greg Bragg works for them and he would have loved being there last night. I hope we get to see him at Okie-Tex in September.

    A short, but AGNFA!