[AZ-Observing] Re: Capella at noon

I remember visiting Arizona Sky Village several years ago during
November and for fun Jack Newton put Alberio in his scope during the
daytime.  I carefully held my digital point-and-shoot up to the eyepiece
and got a crude photo of it.

http://www.pbase.com/bsanden/image/23440364

- Bernie


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Hi Chris-

I recall back in "the good old days" (early '80s) when I was a young pup
supporting broken telescopes on Kitt Peak the Coude Feed scope (an
alt-az-mounted flat feeding a 36" mirror in turn feeding the Coude
spectrograph of at the 84") had chronic pointing problems and of course,
the only way to check it was to find daytime-visible stars.  I recall (a
little fuzzy here) seeing down to about 4th magnitude when we had to.=20
Vega was easy, epsilon Lyrae was hard.  Was definately fun, though.  I
don't have any go-to scopes, otherwise it would be easy...

-Dean

> Hi all,
>
> Yesterday the sky was blue and the moon well placed in
> the afternoon sky, about 2pm.  I set my 12.5" on the
> moon and set the RA circle for its position from
> megastar.  Then dialed in the coords for Capella,
> about 30 degrees away.  With the 16mm nagler, the view
> was stunning, a brilliant white stellar point set
> against the deep blue sky.
>
> I hope this inspires some of you to try this very
> different type of observing!
>
> Comments?
>
> Chris
>
> Take Care,
>
> Chris
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