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["Jack Jones" <Telescoper@xxxxxxx>]

I hope to see it at All-AZ and will look for it, thanks. The last time I saw 
it was at Eagle Eye site in the Harquahalas 6-7 yrs ago, but it wasn't quite 
that big or as elongated. That was a really dark site but low desert and was 
where I saw the Horsehead Neb first time for sure. I think it was in Ken 
Reeve's 17.5in?

Jack Jones


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brian Skiff" <bas@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2007 12:24 PM
Subject: [AZ-Observing] Good season for gegenschein


>>      This is a reminder that if you have not ever seen the
>> gegenschein, the coming days are a good time to do it.  It is
>> presently located in a bland section of Pisces, well away from
>> the Milky Way, and coming north for northern observers.
>>      The last few days in Flagstaff we have entered a cool, dry
>> spell (well below freezing at dawn, precipitable water-vapor 2-3mm).
>> The geggenschein from Anderson Mesa appears about as large as
>> one's hand at arm's length and elongated along the ecliptic in
>> about the same proportions (something like 20x10 degrees).
>> It is conspicuous from an open area with low horizons, merging
>> smoothly into the zodiacal band that stretches from Capricornus
>> in the southwest across to the mottled regions of Taurus,
>> slipping between the Pleiades and Hyades.
>>
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