Joe et al. Jorge and I had a very good night. The fire was well to the north and had zero impact on us. Breeze yesterday evening was blowing from the south so the smoke went that way as did the fire .As I was leaving Herriman and going out 73 I could see the smoke in the sky. By the time I went down the Faust Road you could see that the fire was well to the north and on a mountain. During the night if you looked that way you could see the glow from the fire as it worked down, but no biggie as only Ursa Major was that low and that is too low for me to want to observe something there. I'll wait for spring on that. I worked a few galaxies in Bootes, some planetary nebula in Aquila and some objects in Cygnus (Sharpless 2-91,92 a SNR in Cygnus by Alberio; the Veil is about 7000 years old, this one is about 30000 years old but can be seen visually with an OIII filter and is easily photographed), Campbell's Hydrogen and I wanted to sketch the Crescent but never got to it as I got distracted by some PN's there. By 1:30a.m. the wind had come up and was gusting pretty good so around 2:00, I broke down the scope, got everything ready to go to bed then for an hour just watch a decent Perseid shower. Both Jorge and I had been watching them on and off and there were many small and quick ones, but there were many significant ones. The brightest Jorge saw as it streaked and broke into 3 pieces. However I think we both saw the brightest, a large one that streaked for a long time and then blew up literally over the Depot or Tooele. All in all, not an excellent night but it was good to very good. The Swan M17 was just terrific both without and with a filter on it. The filter really brought it out. Finally got red out of Campbell's Hydrogen Star (a PN in Cygnus near Alberio). Slept from about 2:40 until 7:45a.m. then drove home and now am typing this up. If the wind had been less later I would have probably stayed up til 3:00 or 4:00a.m. observing. On 2013-08-12 05:37, Joe Bauman wrote:
Hey all, I was headed out to Lakeside this afternoon when I saw a gigantic plume of smoke. The range fire was so bad that I knew seeing would be awful so I turned around and came back to SLC. Later we heard the fire was in Skull Valley, so I imagine it disrupted Jay too. Can you give us a report, Jay? -- Joe
Hello,
I am heading out observing tonight, solo right now and that is fine. I
know
it is a Sunday and many work but it will be my last hurrah as I go back to
teaching this week. So if your available and want to hook up let me know.
Either Pit n Pole or Vernon is where I am leaning.
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