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Re: RE: [Utah-astronomy] Bryce Canyon Star Party June 1-4, 2005
by astrodeb＠charter.net 14 Apr '05

14 Apr '05

Anybody planning on going to Bryce better make their reservations now. The Canyon Pines motel still has rooms. They also have a restaurant nearby. The Bryce View Lodge is all booked up for Saturday night. Debbie > > From: Michael Carnes <michaelcarnes(a)earthlink.net> > Date: 2005/04/13 Wed PM 02:37:51 MDT > To: Utah Astronomy <utah-astronomy(a)mailman.xmission.com> > Subject: Re: RE: [Utah-astronomy] Bryce Canyon Star Party June 1-4, 2005 > > Nahh. My excuse is that I've got no brain. > > >Were you guys out till 3:30 am too? That's my excuse. > > > _______________________________________________ > Utah-Astronomy mailing list > Utah-Astronomy(a)mailman.xmission.com > http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy > Visit the Photo Gallery: http://www.utahastronomy.com >

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Re: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Finally a good night of observing.
by astrodeb＠charter.net 14 Apr '05

14 Apr '05

Yes, I could of spent the whole night in Virgo. I meant to say I went out Tuesday night. It was a four day old moon. I'm getting over my jet-lag. One note about IC 3568 from Sky and Telescope. "Astronomers once considered the planetary nebula IC 3568 in Camelopardalis to be one of the morphologically simplest planetaries in the sky. Not any more. Recent images by the Hubble Space Telescope have resolved a complex structure with linear features pointing away from the central star." I'm hoping to bag Kohoutek 1-22, a large planetary nebula about 181" in diameter, in the near future. I need a good southern horizon and fairly dark skies. It's fun to view objects I've never seen before. Debbie > > From: Joe Bauman <bau(a)desnews.com> > Date: 2005/04/14 Thu PM 01:16:44 MDT > To: Utah Astronomy <utah-astronomy(a)mailman.xmission.com> > Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Finally a good night of observing. > > Sure those aren't fly specks on the mirror? -- Joe > > >Someone (with a 30" dob IIRC) recently > >posted to the Yahoo PNe group that they had recently > >observed 32 in a single FOV! > > > >-Rich > > > >--- astrodeb(a)charter.net wrote: > >> I worked my way > >> south in Virgo till I came to an interesting group > >> of galaxies. I viewed the five brightest members of > >> the NGC 4270 group. By the way, this is a Herschel > >> object Rich. > > > > > >__________________________________________________ > >Do You Yahoo!? > >Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > >http://mail.yahoo.com > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Utah-Astronomy mailing list > >Utah-Astronomy(a)mailman.xmission.com > >http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy > >Visit the Photo Gallery: http://www.utahastronomy.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Utah-Astronomy mailing list > Utah-Astronomy(a)mailman.xmission.com > http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy > Visit the Photo Gallery: http://www.utahastronomy.com >

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Re: [Utah-astronomy] Finally a good night of observing.
by Richard Tenney 14 Apr '05

14 Apr '05

Nice report Deb. Yeah, I'll be spending at least a couple of nights in Virgo alone to finish up my list. Question for the list: What's the most number of galaxies anyone on this list has observed in a single Field Of View? Someone (with a 30" dob IIRC) recently posted to the Yahoo PNe group that they had recently observed 32 in a single FOV! -Rich --- astrodeb(a)charter.net wrote: > I worked my way > south in Virgo till I came to an interesting group > of galaxies. I viewed the five brightest members of > the NGC 4270 group. By the way, this is a Herschel > object Rich. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Finally a good night of observing.
by astrodeb＠charter.net 14 Apr '05

14 Apr '05

I went out to Jim's place at about 8 pm Wednesday night and set up my 15". Since the moon was still up we looked at the craters along the terminator in the early evening and enjoyed high power views of the moon. I thought about Jim Lovell being so close to it and never landing on the moon. I turned the scope to Orion and easily identified the "E" and "F" stars in the Trapezium. The seeing seemed to be pretty stable. I had Orion nebula at 190X. I then turned the scope to Saturn. It was a nice view at 190X with the Cassini division easily seen. The banding on the globe was apparent too. The next object I went to was NGC 2440 in Puppis. This is a strange planetary that the Hubble Space Telescope imaged. It was a nice view at 245X with the OIII filter but I wanted to move on to the Eskimo Nebula so I didn't increase the power. The Eskimo Nebula looked nice at 245X but since the seeing was stable I cranked the magnification up to 350X. I could definitly see the outer "parka" as well as the inner shell of gas. Jim liked the view so much he put his 9mm Nagler on it in the 25". He said this was about 350X and it looked much brighter in the 25". Now this is where it gets interesting. His scope has a focal length of 3175mm because it is an f/5 scope. I suggested he try my 5mm Radian in his scope. Well, that would put it at 635X according to my math but he had a 1.4X Parracor inserted in the focuser. That would raise the power to 889X. I looked in the eyepiece and saw a huge planetary nebula. The view was magnificent at that power. The inner and outer halos were very obvious to see. He then put in the 2X Powermate and reached 700X with the 9mm Nagler. I've never seen the Eskimo so good in my life. I then punched in NGC 3242, the Ghost of Jupiter while Jim decided to view Copeland Septet. I love the blue color of this nebula. I started out at 245X and the view was good so I thought I'd put in the 4mm Radian. This gives me 430X on my scope. At this power I could see the central star in the nebula. The view was awesome at this power. this nebula has an inner halo and an outer halo as well. I then looked at all seven members of Copeland's Septet. They were faint and the moonlight didn't help much but we saw every member of the galaxy cluster. Jim printed out a chart from MegaStar. I looked at several bright galaxies including NGC 2903, NGC 4565, and M64, and M108. I used about 145X for these galaxies to get a darker background. I found the Owl Nebula next and viewed at at 245X. I then tried for IC 3568 in Camelopardalis. This is one of the nebulae that the Hubble Space telescope imaged. I thought I identified the planetary at 245X. I upped the magnification to 350X and noticed a faint 14.6 star next to the nebula. It is a small round bright planetary. It was sketched by Jay McNeil in the '99 Jan issue of Sky and Telescope. Once again it looked better and brighter in the 25". By this time the moon had gone down and I turned my scope over to Virgo. I viewed several pairs of galaxies including the "Eyes", "Siamese Twins", and NGC 4216, a nice edge-on galaxy. I worked my way south in Virgo till I came to an interesting group of galaxies. I viewed the five brightest members of the NGC 4270 group. By the way, this is a Herschel object Rich. I'll have to get a better look in darker skies next time. I worked my way down to the quasar 3C 273. It looked like a blue dot. By this time, Lyra was rising so we took a look at the Ring Nebula with the bino-viewer in the 25". I never get tired of the smoke ring. We also got a wonderful view of M13 and M51 with the bino-viewer in the 25". M13 looked 3D in the binos. The bino-viewer seems to excel on bright objects. We finished up with M81 and M82 and called it a night about 2:30am. Debbie

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Re: [Utah-astronomy] Messy camp view -- on Mars
by Michael Carnes 14 Apr '05

14 Apr '05

In the far distant future, they'll send a scout troop to clean that up. Looks like a tent and a water bottle!

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Cloud magnet
by Patrick Wiggins 13 Apr '05

13 Apr '05

I found this little animated GIF on the C14 user group. http://f4.grp.yahoofs.com/v1/cKRdQgQZ4hn_flBQFV9zDKaEglexvLlnhMz6ncxyVjNm5-… Patrick :-)

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Re: RE: [Utah-astronomy] Bryce Canyon Star Party June 1-4, 2005
by Michael Carnes 13 Apr '05

13 Apr '05

Nahh. My excuse is that I've got no brain. >Were you guys out till 3:30 am too? That's my excuse.

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Re: RE: [Utah-astronomy] Bryce Canyon Star Party June 1-4, 2005
by astrodeb＠charter.net 13 Apr '05

13 Apr '05

Jo and Micheal, Were you guys out till 3:30 am too? That's my excuse. Debbie > > From: <astrodeb(a)charter.net> > Date: 2005/04/13 Wed PM 02:11:39 MDT > To: Utah Astronomy <utah-astronomy(a)mailman.xmission.com> > Subject: Re: RE: [Utah-astronomy] Bryce Canyon Star Party June 1-4, 2005 > > Don, > > I talked to my friend Jim last night and he said he will bring his 25" f/5 Obsession telescope with the trailer. Is this alright? We should have some big aperature there if he comes. I'm sending your message to him so he can personally contact you for the details. I think he will come Friday and maybe Saturday. > > Debbie > > > > From: "Don J. Colton" <djcolton(a)piol.com> > > Date: 2005/04/13 Wed AM 10:27:57 MDT > > To: "Utah Astronomy" <utah-astronomy(a)mailman.xmission.com> > > Subject: RE: [Utah-astronomy] Bryce Canyon Star Party June 1-4, 2005 > > > > Anyone wishing to attend the Bryce Canyon Star Party (June 1, 2, 3 & 4, > > 2005) should email me at dcoltonsprint(a)earthlink.net with ALL of the > > following information (if they have not already done so): > > > > Dates > > they will attend > > Name and Vehicle Telescope If They Need W-June 1 Th-June 2 > > Fri-June 3 Sat-June 4 > > Phone or email (make/lic) Type Campsite > > > > Space is limited to 50 participants, and other clubs in the State have been > > invited, so anyone interested needs to provide me with the ALL the above > > information in order to get on the list. > > > > Clear Skies > > Don Colton > > 801-566-3000 (w) > > 801-571-9757 (h) > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Utah-Astronomy mailing list > > Utah-Astronomy(a)mailman.xmission.com > > http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy > > Visit the Photo Gallery: http://www.utahastronomy.com > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Utah-Astronomy mailing list > Utah-Astronomy(a)mailman.xmission.com > http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy > Visit the Photo Gallery: http://www.utahastronomy.com >

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Re: RE: [Utah-astronomy] Bryce Canyon Star Party June 1-4, 2005
by astrodeb＠charter.net 13 Apr '05

13 Apr '05

Don, I talked to my friend Jim last night and he said he will bring his 25" f/5 Obsession telescope with the trailer. Is this alright? We should have some big aperature there if he comes. I'm sending your message to him so he can personally contact you for the details. I think he will come Friday and maybe Saturday. Debbie > > From: "Don J. Colton" <djcolton(a)piol.com> > Date: 2005/04/13 Wed AM 10:27:57 MDT > To: "Utah Astronomy" <utah-astronomy(a)mailman.xmission.com> > Subject: RE: [Utah-astronomy] Bryce Canyon Star Party June 1-4, 2005 > > Anyone wishing to attend the Bryce Canyon Star Party (June 1, 2, 3 & 4, > 2005) should email me at dcoltonsprint(a)earthlink.net with ALL of the > following information (if they have not already done so): > > Dates > they will attend > Name and Vehicle Telescope If They Need W-June 1 Th-June 2 > Fri-June 3 Sat-June 4 > Phone or email (make/lic) Type Campsite > > Space is limited to 50 participants, and other clubs in the State have been > invited, so anyone interested needs to provide me with the ALL the above > information in order to get on the list. > > Clear Skies > Don Colton > 801-566-3000 (w) > 801-571-9757 (h) > > > > _______________________________________________ > Utah-Astronomy mailing list > Utah-Astronomy(a)mailman.xmission.com > http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy > Visit the Photo Gallery: http://www.utahastronomy.com >

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Re: [Utah-astronomy] oops
by Michael Carnes 13 Apr '05

13 Apr '05

Join the club! >Sorry, did not look carefully at the return address and accidentally sent >it out to the whole group.... >Jo

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