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It's almost 5 a.m. and it is as clear as a bell. The Moon occults Venus at 6:40 a.m. and reappearance is at 7:30 a.m.
If you've never seen a planetary occultation by the Moon, do so. They are awesome. This will be my third.
Let's go get 'em! ;D
I went out into the backyard for about an hour 3:30 to 4:30 looking for Lyrids. I counted 7 meteors. Hiding in the backyard gets out of the streetlights and Lyra/Vega was almost overhead. Keller probably wouldn't have been too bad at that time. Most of the ones I saw were to the south.
I was trying to motivate, took a look out the window and saw all of the stars and took a bit, but finally got up and went out. Just like a summer evening. Scorpius to the south and the teapot. Summer triangle up. At least the sky was like a summer evening. Just a tad cool out. 🙂Hello astronomy fans! I saw the Moon/Venus occultation this morning, but have to apologize that the times I quoted were Eastern Daylight time.
It was an awesome show, but once the Sun came up, it took diligent work to keep the event in the binocs and telescope. I didn't get my Celestron quite polar aligned well enough to track for more than 15 minutes.
The Venus cresent was visible in my binoculars and the telescopic view was incredible. I watched Venus disappear behind the Moon's fading disc, Venus was so cool to see in the daylight! Not a problem at all.
It was a glorious morning for astronomy!
Starting to clear up some more. I think I'll head out to Keller for a bit tonight. Probably won't be there any later than 11:00. Sunset is 8:25 and moonrise is 11:25. ISS will pass over starting at 9:20. Listed as a mag -2.0, so should be pretty bright. Coming from the SW and pass south of Leo and disappear into the ENE.
I think I will head out to Keller tonight. Cleared up quite a bit. ISS comes over at 9:12 and 10:48.
With any luck I'll finish my Messier Objects list…I have 8 left…all in the Virgo Cluster. I was out last night for about 1 1/2 hours and visited some of them, but need to verify for myself that I've found the right ones. Should be good tonight. Hopefully the wind will subside.
Have fun!!
Rick
Hello astronomy fans!
Tonight doesn't look good for Eagle Bluff. I will not be there and am calling a NO-GO.
I would recommend local observing only.
I need to pick up a bartending shift on Saturday night, and will not be able to attend on that night, although the CSC looks better for Saturday night.
Sunday night I would be available, but I can't access the CSC that far in advance. But if Sunday night is good, I'm there.
Stay in touch and clear skies to all.
To those who may be interested Dean, Luka, Jerome and Jillissa plan to be at Eagle Bluff on Sunday night.
It looks to be AGNFA! 🙂 I'm going to try be there right at sunset.
I'm not getting any answer from Eagle Bluff. I'm taking that to mean that the office is closed and nothing is going on there.
Well, I missed one. I still have one Messier object left on the list. I found M83-Galaxy in Hydra last night to get me to 109 objects observed. I'll have to wait until late fall to finish the list…bummer.
Rick
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