Did anyone see the reappearance of Beta Scorpii from behind the dark rim of the waning gibbous Moon this morning? I woke up from a nap around 1:50 a.m. this morning and ran outside with my 10x50 Minolta binos. I might of missed the reappearance by a minute or two but, Wow! I didn't expect Beta to stand out so bright as it did. Being at mag 2.6, any glare from the Moon sure didn't diminish this little double-star gem. Tom Sevcik
Darn. Forgot about it and missed it. Sent from my iPad On Mar 31, 2013, at 3:27 PM, Thomas Sevcik <sfv1ts@hotmail.com> wrote:
Did anyone see the reappearance of Beta Scorpii from behind the dark rim of the waning gibbous Moon this morning? I woke up from a nap around 1:50 a.m. this morning and ran outside with my 10x50 Minolta binos. I might of missed the reappearance by a minute or two but, Wow! I didn't expect Beta to stand out so bright as it did. Being at mag 2.6, any glare from the Moon sure didn't diminish this little double-star gem. Tom Sevcik _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy
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I was checking out the event prediction the other day, but I seem to recall that it wouldn't be an occultation from our location. Maybe I'm wrong, but I think that's the reason I didn't put it on my short list. Pity to not see it, if it wasn't a miss from here. On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 3:27 PM, Thomas Sevcik <sfv1ts@hotmail.com> wrote:
Did anyone see the reappearance of Beta Scorpii from behind the dark rim of the waning gibbous Moon this morning? I woke up from a nap around 1:50 a.m. this morning and ran outside with my 10x50 Minolta binos. I might of missed the reappearance by a minute or two but, Wow! I didn't expect Beta to stand out so bright as it did. Being at mag 2.6, any glare from the Moon sure didn't diminish this little double-star gem.
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