Sounds awesome Jay! Glad you had a great time. I would have like to have been there with you all, but there were just too many things pulling me in too many directions that night. Keep looking up! Mat -----Original Message----- From: utah-astronomy-bounces@mailman.xmission.com [mailto:utah-astronomy-bounces@mailman.xmission.com] On Behalf Of Jay Eads Sent: Sunday, October 23, 2011 1:37 PM To: Utah Astronomy Subject: [Utah-astronomy] Lakeside 10/22/2011 This is just a quick review of last night at Lakeside. At the site were the following people: Me, Jay Dave Rankin George (a friend of Dave and I and an imager). Josh Jorge Ian The air last night was the best air I've seen in a LONG time. I was able to put 471x on Jupiter and see outstanding detail visually. The GRS jumped out in a red color with details and the bands showed structure in the bands. It was one of the best views of Jupiter I have ever seen. I know David took a very large amount of data on Jupiter and I am looking forward to seeing what he does with it. George and Jorge also got some great image data in on various objects including M-42. I viewed M-42 with my 10mm, 14mm Pentax XW with an Ultrablock filter and with a 2 inch filter with the 27mm Panoptic and the Nebula popped into a 3-D like view with the filaments in the nebula just looking outstanding. I saw the typical green along with some hinges of red. Ian left early and after teasing him when he showed up, he hunted down Comet Garrard and spent time on Jupiter and other items. He discussed with me about seeing a disc structure on a Galilean moon. Oh to have 23 year old eyes! I spent most of my night in Pegasus hunting faint galaxies and galaxies clusters. For me my favorite by far was NGC 7619 & NGC 7626 elliptical galaxies or what is called Abell 426. NGC 1275 was also visible easily in the eyepiece. Here is a link to the many galaxies that are in this cluster, of which I spotted about 7 of them. http://dorsetastro.synthasite.com/unusual-deep-sky-targets.php Outside of this I showed Josh some objects and spent time in Auriga as it had risen up pretty high by late in the evening. I showed him M-35 first in Gemni and NGC 2158, another open cluster at the end of M35 that is about 1 billion years old. In Auriga I used the 27mm Panoptic to show M36, M37, and M38 and NGC 2158 the mini-Orion Nebula. Here is a photo of that object: I next showed Josh M42 which he had never seen (Josh borrowed my 10 inch dob and did an outstanding job star hopping and finding his own objects that night as well). M42 blew him away I believe and he finished the night about 2:30a.m. spending about 20 minutes just observing Jupiter while I started to clean up until I could use his help. I haven't listed most of the objects I saw and I'll do that in a blog entry one evening but what a tremendous evening! It was just incredible. I got home at 4:20a.m. and went right to bed. http://www.noao.edu/outreach/aop/observers/n1931ferayorni.jpg -- Jay Eads _______________________________________________ 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