This begs the question: Is the Grim fixed and operational? no word from SLAS BOD's on the subject.
I am heading out again tonight. Last night was just wonderful. M104
showed itself probably the best I have ever seen it in the 14. I was able to capture 18 objects from my list and sketch about 8-10 of them (I need to check). Tonight promises to be even better. We had Jeff, Mat, Josh, Joe and Chris, a visitor from Raliegh NC with us. Joe had a mechanical issue so didn't get any imaging in and he can talk to that. Temperatures were mild out on Forest Road 006, LM was around 7.0 to 7.2 out there and it was nice and dark. Lots of RVers around but no campfires and no disturbances, just nice and quiet.
I also got a great view of NGC 4038/39 the antenna galaxies and one tidal tail was seen coming off NGC 4038 (need to check my notes). Chris saw that with me. After Joe's equipment broke down he wanted to see the eyes so I star hopped to the pair of galaxies known as the Eyes and they stood right out next to their elliptical monster pair. Just a tremendous night. I'll post more details sometime in the week on my blog.
Tonight I want to go back to Vernal as we had no humidity and the temps were just wonderful. Let me know if you want to join me out there. Everyone got there fine using my directions from my blog. Oh, the sites had grass on them and that was nice (wild grass) and a surprise for Joe that Joe can mention. Then there was this thing about playing musical cars and disappearing keys . . .
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