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[Bob Christ <bchrist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It was a great AASP night.  I will add that this was the first time I 
have been able to view and count stars in the Pliaides directly; 
something I've not experienced before.  The Milky Way surfaced quickly 
as dark descended, a fair number of meteors were seen throughout the 
night, and the sky was still glorious when we hit the sleeping bags 
around 3:00 AM.

In my quest toward completion of the SAC Best NGC Object, I was able to 
log a couple of the smaller/fainter PNs that would have been difficult 
had the conditions not been so good.

Tim Jones and I used the new DSI camera for the second time and focused 
on imaging M42.  At f10, we captured only the trapezium and some of the 
nearby nebulosity.  No processing has been done on the images yet, but 
we feel we've taken one step up the imaging learning curve.

The chili dinner was stellar as well!

Bob
 

Paul Lind wrote:
> Several SAC members attended the AASP Saturday night, including Steve and 
> Rosie Dodder, Tom Polakis, Jack Jones, Jimmy Ray, Rick Rotramel, and Wayne 
> Thomas, and me, plus others I may have missed. The transparency was very 
> good, perhaps a 9.   The blue part of the Trifid (M20) appeared as bright as 
> the rest of M20 without any filter, and the dark lanes were well defined.  
> Seeing was good but sort of variable, maybe 7+.  You could drive a truck 
> right through the double-double.  For closer doubles, the "Pierre" doubles in 
> Orion  were separated in my 14 inch at 192x and 350x, but only when using a 
> lunar filter. Without the filter the glare messed up the separation. These 
> are 32 Ori and 52 Ori, and they have separations on the order of 1 arcsec.
> The veil, east and west portions, were stunning in Rick Rotramel's 12 inch 
> with an O-III filter and approx 30mm eyepiece. The "gulf of Mexico region" of 
> NAA was also great.
>
> Tom Polakis pointed out a naked-eye synchronous satellite which turned out to 
> be a pair of satellites. In my undriven scope these sat still in the center 
> of the field while the stars drifted by. Really cool.
>
> A great time was had by all.  Thanks go to EVAC.
>
> Paul Lind
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