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Any one interested in an early night at Keller? 7pm-11pm?
Looking at the forcast for tonight, increasing clouds the later it gets — (but your milage may vary).
It will also be a good test to see the winter clothing works.
Tomorrow sound like fun. Too bad we have prior committments.
I was also thinking about Keller tonight. CSC has a few clouds both tonight and tomorrow night, Rochester anyway. I might head out to Keller.
I hope you folks have a great night.
We stayed in the woods until nearly dark.
Hopefulley Eagle Bluff will work tomorrow.
AGNFA for all of you!
Not looking to bad, may stay clear into the night. Anyone still thinking of heading to Eagle Bluff? It's looking good for tonight.
We got out to Keller last night, but then the clouds came in. We were able to pick out the Summer Triangle and Jupiter, but that was about it. 🙂
I don't really like the looks of things. I don't think we'll be heading to Eagle Bluff. Possible it might clear later, but I don't know when. After getting clouded out early last night, don't really want to head all the way to Eagle Bluff if it isn't pretty clear.
CSC says it is going to clear up, but right now S.G. is having high thin cloud cover.
Eagle Bluff is a long way to go. If you folks prefer Keller, then I believe I'll try out my beloved Flatin Farm hayfield.
Well, I got out for four hours before the clouds started moving in. I started my Globular Cluster observing program and nailed M15, M2, M13 and M56. M2 in Aquarius was especially nice. I had seen it before, but hadn't seen it in a long while. I almost forgot how pretty it is.
Binocular observing was wonderful, too. Aldebaran and the Hyades, the Pleadies, Perseus Double Cluster, the Alpha Persei Association and Kembles Cascade were all great. That part of the fall sky was the most untroubled by clouds all night.
Jupiter was amazing! There were 3 moons to the east and they were all stacked above and below each other. A rare sight.
At any rate, it was great to be out, listening to classical music and enjoying the night sky. Hope you folks had some good luck, too.
I got out for a few hours at Keller on Saturday night. I tried to get auto-guiding to work, but it wouldn't. I still got some imaging and some binocular observing. I saw the North American Nebula, but just barely. Then a bunch of messier open clusters, and M81, 82, 31, 110 and 33.
Just as I started to pack up and the clouds came in, a trio of hunters returning from the Raccoon opener stopped by in their truck. They wanted to know what I was looking at, and it was still on the Pleiades(which I tried to image), and I let them see that, and then turned it to Jupiter which was much more impressive, since I didn't have my low power eyepiece for the Pleiades. They were pretty amazed by that. They were also wondering about the bright star in the early evening in the west, and I told them it was Arcturus. A surprising but pleasant ending to a good night of astronomy
I hope I wasn't the only person from the club that observed the beautiful Aurora last night. It was quite spectacular for southern Minnesota. I noticed the sky starting to light up at about 8:15 with red streams shooting from the north west and the north east moving to an area straight above me with a bright green semi halo that slowly changed to a single cloud that moved to the western horizon. Streams of light moved from between the red steams and culminated in swirls straight above. This heavy activity lasted about a half hour, then slowly dissipating until gone by 9:20. I watched all this from my deck.
I've not seen a show like that one in a very, very, very long time.Happy Trails
RickSounds great Rick! 😮 Darn, too bad we missed that.
No, I didn't go out Saturday. After I didn't go to Eagle Bluff, I grew roots. 🙁
How about this weekend? Sounds like Friday is out for Eagle Bluff as they have something going on, or else would have to be late and after my bed time. ;D Saturday night at Eagle Bluff? Perhaps try Keller on Friday?
Jeff
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