[AZ-Observing] Starting a Long Memorial Day Weekend

Tonight marks the first night in a long Memorial Day weekend outing for 
me.   Taking advantage of the timing with a New Moon and Memorial Day  
meeting on the calendar for once I took a few days off work for five 
nights of solid astronomy!!

So here I am with Violet set up under beautiful dark skies in western 
New Mexico, Dean Salman set up with his Takahishi a few feet away.  A 
few other scopes show up tomorrow.  A comfy bed for Deb when she gets 
tired (she went to sleep around ten) and a fridge full of Mt. Dew and a 
pot of homemade chili to keep me running all night long.  Add wireless 
Internet at the scope and everything is perfect!

Spent the first part of the night perusing through galaxies in Virgo and 
a few more in Centaurus.  The Milky Way is rising now, looking 
absolutely beautiful rising above the ridge line to the east.

I found Palomar 5, not easy!  A very faint patch of stars about 10' 
across in Serpens.  There are a few more Palomars on the list for the 
night, I don't expect to be successful with all of them, even with the 18".

I might pop in with a few more observing notes when I get up tomorrow, 
just to whet everyones appetite before a good  New Moon weekend.

Andrew

Andrew Cooper
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