[AZ-Observing] Re: Observing With The Lowell 24" Clark Refractor
- From: Jeremy Perez <jeremy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 00:30:29 -0700
Tom,
It was a pleasure to meet you and Jenn this weekend, as it was to be
treated to Don's excellent presentation. I also owe a debt of
gratitude to Dave Healy for an invitation to join you all at the
Clark Telescope that evening. Thanks for posting a link to your
photos--those are great wide-angle shots inside the observatory. If I
had realized you were fisheyeing it, I would have tried harder to
keep out of your way...sorry if I made it tough for you to get
uncluttered images.
I have a few shots from the evening posted here:
http://www.perezmedia.net/beltofvenus/archives/000518.html
What a beautiful telescope and observatory.
Best regards,
Jeremy Perez
http://www.perezmedia.net/beltofvenus
On Nov 21, 2005, at 5:35 PM, Tom Polakis wrote:
> 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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