FreeLists / az-observing / [AZ-Observing] Re: Weekend observing

[Michael Collins <cal_donley@xxxxxxx>]

Jeff Hopkins wrote:
> Friday night I spent part of the evening in Gilbert at the GRCO with 
> Gene Lucas. We used the observatory's 16" LX200 to do some infrared 
> photometry of epsilon Aurigae with my SSP-4. The data looks very 
> good. I tried seeing Comet Holmes with a pair of binoculars from the 
> GRCO. I could see no trace of it.

   I was able to see the comet from my residence in south Chandler last 
Wednesday evening.  Friday night, I drove down near Sonoita to attempt 
an asteroidal occultation observation, and from there it remains a 
prominent naked eye object.  It extends beyond the 1.1 degree field of 
my 32 mm Ploessl/135 mm Maksutov combination.  I got my best view of it 
in the 7x50 finder.

   I'll be interested to see how it looks after the Moon is out of the 
evening sky again in a couple of weeks.

                                -- Mike --
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