Any catching Mercury and Venus this week?
Just came in from a wonderful evening/night and I have to say looking at Venus and Mercury at twilight and taking some shots of them was very enjoyable. Just wondering if anyone is looking that way or are they too low for most? BTW, I thought that conditions tonight where I was were wonderful. Little if any twinkle in the stars made for great transparency and seeing and excellent galaxy time tonight. I'm not going to be able to make it to The Wedge this weekend (son's birthday) but I am planing on either Lake Side, Pit n Pole or another site on Friday if anyone is interested.
Jay, Where were you observing? Did you run into frost? Best wishes, Joe ________________________________ From: Jay Eads <jayleads@gmail.com> To: utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com Sent: Thu, April 8, 2010 1:05:44 AM Subject: [Utah-astronomy] Any catching Mercury and Venus this week? Just came in from a wonderful evening/night and I have to say looking at Venus and Mercury at twilight and taking some shots of them was very enjoyable. Just wondering if anyone is looking that way or are they too low for most? BTW, I thought that conditions tonight where I was were wonderful. Little if any twinkle in the stars made for great transparency and seeing and excellent galaxy time tonight. I'm not going to be able to make it to The Wedge this weekend (son's birthday) but I am planing on either Lake Side, Pit n Pole or another site on Friday if anyone is interested. _______________________________________________ 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
We had excellent views of Mercury and Venus from SPOC last night. Using the Ealing, we had to open the roof over the Grim bay to access that part of the sky. Afterwards Mars and Saturn were both crisp, and M42 was showing detail usually reserved for the 32". Speaking of last night, the seeing was excellent. It was one of those nights where the transparency was superb, and there was virtually no turbulence. Sirius was practically not twinkling! The best seeing I have experienced at SPOC has always been at about this time of year, usually after a storm has cleared the air. A couple of years ago, Erik and I both saw the North America nebula easily with the naked eye, again about this time of year IIRC. We saw several prominences around the limb of th sun before sundown, as well as one active region on the disk itself, using my PST.
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Joe Bauman