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[Jeff Hopkins <phxjeff@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

>Sunday 2100 hrs:
>Seeing a large shadow on the floor of Hipparchus and Albategnius split into
>three sections near the terminator in the 20x80 binocs, I checked with the
>6" to see what was going on there. The shadow is a large dark area of
>unevenness on the floor, but is not as noticeable in the scope. To the south
>near prominent craters Werner and Aliacensus is large bright white X just
>into the dark side, making an X O O pattern with the two craters. I believe
>this is the intersection of the high walls of Purbach and Regiomontanus just
>coming into sunlight. Beautifully strange.
>
>Jack Jones
>Saguaro Astronomy Club
>Public Events
>Phoenix AZ
>spicastar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>

Thanks for the heads up Jack. I went out and rolled off my 
refractor's roof and took a peek. Not bad. While a horrible night for 
photometry, the seeing between the thin clouds was good. I got a few 
shots with my Nikon and some 35 mm film. It's been awhile since I 
have take 35 mm images so I'll find out tomorrow what I have 
forgotten.

Anyone have any experience with a Mead 216XT CCD camera. Mine no 
longer wants to talk to my computer.

Jeff
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