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Hi Dean, anything on Eagle Bluff? I wonder if it is it just teasing us again today or will it stay clear tonight?
Hi Jeff, I've called Eagle Bluff a couple times today, no one picks up the phone.
My CSC shows a possible good night, but poor transparency and high humidity.
I would recommend local observing only. EB is too far to go with such ambiguity.
Sounds good. I'll head out to Keller then, anyone else? Looks like average transparency, hard to tell those colors. And humidity will be high from now until sometime in August.
Steve and I got out. I stayed until 2 a.m., then it got hazy. I probably got one of my last looks at Jupiter until it comes up in the east later this year, then Stup and 4 of his friends showed up. We showed them Mars, Saturn, M13 and Alberio. The skies were alternately, clear, hazy, clear, hazy, clear then bad hazy when I left.
We looked at M4 in Scorpius through Stup's scope (nice!) then looked at and did a comparison of Delta and Beta Scorp (Delta has been the brighter of the two for about 20 years or more now), looked at M103 in Casseopia, Mu Cephei and Delta Cephei, talked about "dark nebula" (the dark patches of the sky that E. E. Barnard recorded photographically early in the 20th century. Steve hadn't heard of these and I showed him a couple of examples in Burnham's Celestial Handbook.Steve took off about 1:30, I was going to stay until moonrise, but then it really got bad and dewey, so I packed up and left.
Still, AGNFA! Nice to be out there. It had been a while.
Eagle Bluff is available Fri/Sat night, but not Sat/Sun. A wedding reception is scheduled for that night.
Dawn will email me the code for the bathroom tomorrow.
Anyone interested?
I'd be interested in Eagle Bluff. The way the forecasts sounds, didn't think this weekend would be too good. But… that CSC for EB looks pretty good for Friday. Sort of hard to believe.
This is a little late,
I did go out to Keller on Saturday. When I got there, Jim and Jake were there. Jake was just checking out Keller to find it in the daylight. He will probably come out again some time in the future or perhaps out to Eagle Bluff. Saturday, he had to take the kids home and put them to bed, so he just scouted out Keller. There were some clouds about and more came in while Jim and I waited for it to get dark. We did get some looks at Saturn, Mars, and Jupiter while it was getting dark and cloudier. The east was the clearest. We did look at a few things, Ring and Hercules for two. Quite a few clouds in the west. Before it got dark, the one set of clouds looked a lot like a spiral galaxy. I thought perhaps we had gone a few billion years in the future and Andromeda was bearing down on us.
Anyway, things just weren't looking very good. Jim packed up and I was slowly starting to put stuff away. It was around 10:30. Jim left, but then Mr. Gorp and Astromom showed up right behind him. I was thinking they had looked at the sky and decided not to come, but… here they were! I told Chris and Julie things were not that good. We talked for awhile and then just like that things started to clear up so they got their scope out. Glad they showed up as then I stayed and was able to get in some good observing. Where the sky cleared up, it was nice and crisp and clear. Early in the evening, there was no such thing as Leo, too cloudy in the west.. All of sudden, there was Leo strolling across the western savanna and I was even able to get a good look at the Leo Triplet, nice. Quite the turn around. Looked at a few goodies, M57 and M13 again, much better now that it was darker and clearer. M4, M5, M51, M81, M82. Albireo, Leo Triplet. Perhaps more that I can no longer remember. Turned out to be pretty good, but then it did start to cloud up again after midnight and we started packing up. I left around 12:30. Nice night. If you can get out, isn't it always AGNFA?
Sorry I didn't reply last night. It was real cloudy down here and I didn't bother to check the forum after I got home from my bike ride.
Glad to hear a good report from Keller on the 26th of June.
A rare crystal clear night looks like a real possibility…I may head out to Keller after dark..anyone else ?
Anyone interested in going out observing on Friday/Saturday? Moon will rise after midnight each day, about 12:30 Friday night and a little after 1 on Saturday night.
Either Keller or perhaps Eagle Bluff?
Dean, what is status of Eagle Bluff the next couple of weekends?
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