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60 light frames at 20 seconds each. Attached prime focus to the back of the 8" SCT with a f6.3 focal reducer on an alt/az mount. That ends up providing an effective focal length of 1280mm. The field of view is about 1 degree, 12 minutes in diameter.
Wonderful pictures. Beautiful night for star gazing. Too bad AstroBoy go tired sooner than usual.
Looking forward to a full report on all the sightings after we left. I hope that Dean was able to see his comets before the clouds and fog rolled in.
Nope. Barb and I were the last two in the lot, but the clouds rolled in and we packed up by 1 a.m. Dew (ice) was getting to be a real nuisance. The first comet (Lovejoy?) would have been visible by then.
Still, a great night! 13 of the RAC made it there. Fun!
Unless my wife objects, I think I might go out to my dark place near Fillmore. The weather report looks favorable for tonight and I want to try out my new wedge. That means a my first time performing a polar alignment and all that entails with fork-mounted GoTo.
Jack, you did an outstanding job of imaging at Eagle Bluff the last time the RAC got together. In fact, you made it look easy.
Good luck with the new equipment, looking forward to more great images. You move in a different realm than I do, but that is what makes our hobby so interesting.
If the weather holds, it looks like it will be a good morning to spot ISON on Tuesday (11/19). It should be visible at about 10 degrees above the horizon at 5 AM and magnitude will be around 5. Can anyone suggest a location, maybe just east of Rochester, that would be suitable for viewing at this low angle?
Does anyone want to get out tonight? I'm planning on the Flatin Farm (the corn is out now), but am open to suggestions.
Hi Matt. The Flatin Farm is 5 miles south of Spring Grove on Co. Rd. 16 on the way to Dorchester. It is 80 miles from Rochester, so a pretty long haul. Steve Remick and I will be there starting at 7 p.m. David Coset is a 50% chance of showing up.
I want to start on my Carbon Stars list tonight, plus score some more Binocular Double Stars. It sounds like Comet ISON is fading fast.
Talk about the proto-typical winter observing night. A beautiful day, a gorgeous sunset, set up at 7 p.m., got a look at the Andromeda Galaxy and satellite galaxy M110.
Then, clouds. I told Steve, "This is just like the 2d night at the Heart of America Star Party." We sat in the two chairs I brought out and shot the breeze until 9 p.m., then packed it up.
Tomorrow will be absolutely clear, I'll wake up and see nothing but blue sky in the morning.
"One of these days, Alice, to the MOON!!" We'll get a nice night sometime.
Hi everyone, first time posting here and looking to join the club. Weather report is saying clear night friday, is anyone looking to do any star gazing? if so time and place?
Thanks
Mike C.There is a chance of winter observing starting at about midnight. Tomorrow night I'm going to have to miss my yearly chance of seeing Santa in his sleigh because of clouds and snow.
Merry Christmas everyone!
Go RAC!
AT LAST! Steve and I are going to get in 3 hours of observing tonight. We're going to the Myrah home farm driveway a mile east of Spring Grove. There is a good E/SE and N sky visible from there, the road is plowed and no one lives on the home farm anymore so we'll have a decent spot with little to no traffic. David is coming out there too, so it should be a pretty good night. It looks like moonrise will be about 9:30.
It's been a while. Dust off those telescopes and get some stars!
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!
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