Howard, you may be in the little dark "pocket" I've noticed in West Jordan, near the less-populated part of the Westridge area? When I've been out there, I can tell that it is noticeably darker than my house in Granger. Those pesky intermittant clouds didn't help my view, either. The wind was too much for my parallelogram so I just rested the binos on top of the fence, and craned my neck. On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 12:41 PM, Howard Jackman <sumoetx@yahoo.com> wrote:
That's so interesting Chuck because I did the same last night around 1:30am from my backyard in West Jordan with the 15x70 binos and I found the view very fascinating (doesn't take much to impress me, can you tell I don't get out much?) Your description of it was spot on although it seemed much larger than M-13 to me. I enjoyed being able to view it in the same FOV as Saturn, and it was bright enough to remain visible even as clouds raced by in front of it. It seemed to me to be more diffuse and elongated than I had expected especially from left to right. I haven't looked at many pictures of it in the last few weeks so I was expecting a tighter fuzz ball. I wanted to grab some wide field photos but the wind was too much for my little tripod.