Daniel, The five year old just announced that he had observed numerous examples of extra-terrestrial life! But no one must have followed up on it. Rodger Fry ----- Original Message ----- From: "daniel turner" <outwest112@yahoo.com> To: "Utah Astronomy" <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Monday, July 13, 2009 4:44 PM Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Moon, Neptune, Uranus
Jim:
Your spell checker has substitured "creator" for "crater" which gives your post a biblical slant. Last month at a Harmon's party I had an excited five year old telling everyone about the "critters on the moon" that he had seen.
DT
--- On Mon, 7/13/09, Joe Bauman <josephmbauman@yahoo.com> wrote:
From: Joe Bauman <josephmbauman@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Moon, Neptune, Uranus To: "Utah Astronomy" <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Date: Monday, July 13, 2009, 1:42 PM Thanks for the nice report, Jim. -- Joe
--- On Mon, 7/13/09, jim Gibson <jimgibson0@gmail.com> wrote:
From: jim Gibson <jimgibson0@gmail.com> Subject: [Utah-astronomy] Moon, Neptune, Uranus To: "Utah Astronomy" <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Date: Monday, July 13, 2009, 4:24 AM
Chuck,
I happened to wake up a little early and remembered your heads-up about the 13th. I got out on my back porch with my little Meade at 3am. I noticed some cloud cover obscuring the moon but could tell it would clear soon. So I checked out Jupiter. I am glad I did because IO and Europa were 18” apart.
Using my standard 25mm Orion Plossl that I use with the 4” Meade I could make out the dark bands. So while the sky was clearing in the area of the moon I took time to plop in one of my favorite eyepieces, the 13mm Nagler (Type 6). What a treat! The moons of Jupiter were sharp and the dark bands were quite evident.
Ganaymede and Callisto were on opposite sides with IO and Europa on the Callisto side. I could see Mu Cap which led me to Neptune.
When the moon came out from behind the clouds, I checked it out with the Nagler and it filled the eyepiece and gave me a black-eye (seeing wise) so I went back to the 25mm. I noticed in my software that Uranus was near the moon – about 4d 38’ 38” away. I could see something out there, but I am not sure I can say it was Uranus. It was the only star-like object near the moon that wasn’t washed out.
The terminator was passing through Serenitatis with the peaks of the creator Bassel well lighted inside the terminator – cool. Also the creator Arzachel further south was just on the terminator with the peaks nicely lit and the creator floor dark with the central peak lit up like a Christmas tree standing out in contrast.
I don’t really have a good place to do photo work from this new house so I am in somewhat of a quandary as what to do. If I use the back porch I can’t see the North Star. I guess I could just use the drift method without polar aligning.
It is 4:30 am. Don’t know if I should go back to bed or just play. Ok. I will play some more.
Cheers
Jim _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Visit the Photo Gallery: http://www.slas.us/gallery2/main.php Visit the Wiki: http://www.utahastronomy.com
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