[AZ-Observing] Re: A beautiful night in the Arizona desert

Eagle Eye can be excellent and is the first place I saw the Horsehead Nebula
easily with my 14.5", with and without the UHB filter, and the Gegenschein
too. I haven't seen the MW halo except from Grand Canyon in June (from the
'Pit').

Jack Jones
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Saguaro Astronomy Club
Phoenix AZ
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> Brent,
>
> While gegenschein is possible, on this night I was seeing Milky Way =
> halo.
> Steve saw it too, and scanning with 8x42 binos verified that I was not
> imagining the starfields visible to the naked eye. Sure, I know the
> Scorpius/Sagittarius/Ophiuchus Milky Way from photographs but never has =
> it
> been so obvious and extensive at 1x in the desert at reletively low =
> (2000ft)
> altitude.
>
> Matt


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