Wouldn't light pollution affect your ability to see down to mag 19 or 20? -- Joe ________________________________ From: Dale Hooper <Dale.Hooper@sdl.usu.edu> To: Utah Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Wednesday, August 3, 2011 2:06 PM Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] anyone going out tonight? This is kind of disappointing to hear Patrick. One of the reasons I'm saving up for a 14" edge HD is that I thought the limiting CCD magnitude would be more like magnitude 20. Clear skies, Dale.
-----Original Message----- From: utah-astronomy-bounces@mailman.xmission.com [mailto:utah- astronomy-bounces@mailman.xmission.com] On Behalf Of Patrick Wiggins Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2011 5:10 AM To: Utah Astronomy Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] anyone going out tonight?
On 02 Aug 2011, at 03:42, Chrismo wrote:
Just got back from Echo a little while ago. Pretty good skies, no clouds but the usual amount of light pollution all around. It was worth it tho, when I got back to SLC it was pretty cloudy. Not my favorite spot, but it beats sittin around watching Netflix.
Glad things went well at Echo.
I've spent most of the night chasing a very faint little minor planet across the sky. It's below mag 19 so I guess I should be happy that I'm able to image it at all. But it's so faint on the images I'm having trouble measuring it.
Time for a break.
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