[AZ-Observing] Observing With The Lowell 24" Clark Refractor

On the day after Don Machholz's SAC presentation, Jenn and I picked up Rick 
Rotramel, and the four of us went to Flagstaff, where Don presented again to 
the Coconino Asronomical Society.  Later that night, we were treated to a 
private observing session at Lowell's 24" Clark telescope, thanks to the 
generosity of Dave Healy.

The seeing forecasts predicted lousy seeing, and it wasn't lying!  At a 
magnification of less than 200x, Mars was a quivering mass of Jell-O with no 
features visible.  So it was on to something that's not so dependent on seeing: 
 the Crab Nebula.  After a half hour of different people  moving the giant 
scope around, including using the Telrad, nothing was seen.  How about the 
moon?  We all got a full-aperture look at the moon.  I have to say that the 
view I had that night of the moon was exceeded in badness only by the view of 
the moon through a Halleyscope that Chris Schur purchased on a lark in 1986.

Anyway, pictures from Lowell and a side trip to the Tom Bopp discovery site 
(a.k.a. "Vekol") with Steve and Rosie Dodder are here.

http://www.pbase.com/polakis/machholz2005

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