What a great night we had at SPOC tonight. As if excellent views of the planets and several NGC objects weren't enough, we had a nice ISS pass, a -7(!) Iridium flare and capped it off with a very nice auoral display (that continues even as I type this). No doubt we'll pay for this good fortune with 6 more weeks of bad weather... Patrick :-)
I had a good night as well. My wife and I went to the OAS party at Kent's Market in Roy and had decent views of several Messier objects (Good for the middle of a supermarket parking lot) and of course Saturn, Jupiter and the Moon. I saw a meteor streak down with an orange glow and break up at the end. To cap it all off was one of the most impressive auroral displays that I have seen. Simply amazing, bright reds and greens with white streaks that grew and shrunk as I watched. Tonight was what it is all about. I think it was repayment for all the bad weather karma that we have been accumulating. ~Jon
From: Patrick Wiggins <paw@trilobyte.net> Reply-To: Utah Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> To: utah astronomy listserve <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Subject: [Utah-astronomy] What a night! Date: Sun, 15 May 2005 02:12:07 -0600
What a great night we had at SPOC tonight.
As if excellent views of the planets and several NGC objects weren't enough, we had a nice ISS pass, a -7(!) Iridium flare and capped it off with a very nice auoral display (that continues even as I type this).
No doubt we'll pay for this good fortune with 6 more weeks of bad weather...
Patrick :-)
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Hi Friends, I wanted to let you know I just posted a couple of Lagoon Nebula photos in my astrophoto album (thanks to the kindness of Cyn!) This is my first attempt at astronomy with my SBIG. I was in the San Rafael Swell, and I intended to take photos using a guidescope to make tracking better -- my SBIG doesn't have automatic guiding adjustments. But I could not attach my separate guider to the guide scope eyepiece holder. I took the guide scope off and just let the telescope track the best it could, with this result. Unfortunately by the time I started there wasn't much time to do a lot of photography and I only got OK set of images of the center of the Lagoon. Then the clouds moved in. Best wishes, Joe
Very nice images Joe! Congrats! Cheers, Tyler _______________________ -----Original Message----- From: utah-astronomy-bounces+tylerallred=earthlink.net@mailman.xmission.com [mailto:utah-astronomy-bounces+tylerallred=earthlink.net@mailman.xmission.co m] On Behalf Of Joe Bauman Sent: Sunday, May 15, 2005 2:30 PM To: Utah Astronomy Subject: [Utah-astronomy] Lagoon Hi Friends, I wanted to let you know I just posted a couple of Lagoon Nebula photos in my astrophoto album (thanks to the kindness of Cyn!) This is my first attempt at astronomy with my SBIG. I was in the San Rafael Swell, and I intended to take photos using a guidescope to make tracking better -- my SBIG doesn't have automatic guiding adjustments. But I could not attach my separate guider to the guide scope eyepiece holder. I took the guide scope off and just let the telescope track the best it could, with this result. Unfortunately by the time I started there wasn't much time to do a lot of photography and I only got OK set of images of the center of the Lagoon. Then the clouds moved in. Best wishes, Joe _______________________________________________ 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.utahastronomy.com
Thanks, Tyler. But you, as they say, da man! -- Best wishes, Joe
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