22 Aug
2009
22 Aug
'09
5:52 a.m.
A number of us used the scopes at SPOC last night for the "close in dark of the Moon SLAS star party" (Dave B says he hopes to make it a regular thing for those who like to observe on the dark of the Moon but not travel very far). By 1:00 a.m. the number had dwindled to just five and only the Grim remained open. Uranus, Neptune and Juno were easy (the latter only once we got current ephemerides). As were several other DSOs. However, thinking I'd see just how faint an object we could see from SPOC with the big scope we put the scope on some faint fuzzies and were surprised that some could see a magnitude 17.6 edge on spiral galaxy and a star nearly that faint. Not bad for a scope that close to SLC. patrick