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Tonight 1/9, coming back to Rochester from Cities, I went again to junction of 100 St NW and 18 Ave NW southeast of Orinoco and I was able to see comet Wirtanen 46P by binocular 10×50 close to star Muscida in UMa, but looking at map, comet itself was in Lynx. Conditions slightly worse than Saturday, but still good, Moon was under horizon.
Saturday 1/5 I went to Soccer fields, it was clean, no snow or ice. I saw Mars, and several Messiers, but I was not too impressed. There is light pollution, and there was a little bit haze and that combination did not help. After a while, I decided to go out of Rochester by 18 Ave NW past junction with 100St NW. Sky was dark and beautiful. I was able to see comet 46P immediately by binocular 10×50, not far from M37,36,38 in Auriga and more. Later I went to west side of HWY52, close to Douglas trail and I would say there is more light pollution. Still nice dark sky, took few pictures of 46P.
On Sunday afternoon I went to check Keller. That parking was one big hilly ice ring. I am not sure if day before I would be able to observe. I continued to Root River Park, just to see it, and I think it could be promising observing place.
Hmm,maybe I will go to the Soccer fields then. I shoveled spot for few scoped in December as you may see at http://rochesterskies.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/IMG_20181216_151946316.jpg and now is perfectly clean and safe
I called Eagle Bluff just now, and I've got just answering machine, at option #2 they said no events.
I am thinking about Keller tonight 1/5 about 7 PM or so. I guess it will be similar to Soccer fields – icy, see pictures from this week at http://rochesterskies.org/event/public-night-sky-observing-2018-12-14/ and detail http://rochesterskies.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/IMG_20190104_080555527_HDR.jpg
Just reminder:
This Friday 10/6 we have Public observing at Eagle Bluff (rain day backup is Saturday 10/6) see http://rochesterskies.org/event/world-space-week-at-eagle-bluff/?instance_id=270
It is part of the World Space Week.Like weather forecast predicted, there was cloudy weather for this Friday event. In spite of weather, there was about 15 visitors, including two families with children, which brought their telescopes for help and advice. Bob, Julie, Chris and myself, we were able to show sky on Stellarium, present small mirror telescope, and to have a discussion in very friendly environment. Well spent two hours and more talking about future events as well.
John, it was good to see you at Planetarium, as well as Jeff. All of us, and Paul and Planetarium visitors, we had fun to watch Mercury, even very low on horizon between tree branches. Sometimes one could distinguish little crescent. Plus Moon, Trapezium, etc. Light pollution is lower that at 125 Live, but far from dark sky…
Sunset is 7:18 CDT today 3/17, see current data at http://rochesterskies.org/aNew/an_MT_Weather.html
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NASA Moon rendering for Friday 2018-2-23 7 PM https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a004600/a004604/frames/730x730_1x1_30p/moon.1298.jpg
Southern craters at terminator, from bottom:
Clavius (is shade), Tycho (long ray at right), Deslandres, Pilatus (central peak)NASA web https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4604 allows to visualize Moon phases with step one hour. You may do right clink on the Moon image, and download TIFF file with full resolution.
Here is nice NASA page with Moon phases 2017 https://moon.nasa.gov/resources/5/
You can find it also at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gv65Orsh6LM&t=285 (It starts at December 22, 2017)
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, (comma) Move backward 1 frame when video is pausedThat -3.9 ISS pass was really bright, especially around zenith, even through hazy atmosphere and bright Moon close by. I could observe ISS disappearing in the Earth shadow.
Thank you, Jeff!
That Wednesday 11/29 pass at 6:05 .. 6:11 PM http://www.heavens-above.com/passdetails.aspx?lat=44.022&lng=-92.47&loc=Rochester&alt=322.0&tz=CST&satid=25544&mjd=58087.0072337257&type=V is really bright -3.9m !No, we cannot observe tonight, and probably not tomorrow on October 31.
But we could celebrate October 31 as a Dark Matter Day – https://www.darkmatterday.com/
