[sac-forum] Re: July 28 from Cave Creek

Glad you got to enjoy it too, Jeff!


Richard Harshaw
Cave Creek, AZ


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Subject: [sac-forum] Re: July 28 from Cave Creek

Morning of 29 July from West Side of Phoenix

While I went to bed early on Monday, I was up at 3:30 AM today 
observing. The sky was the best I have seen it in a long time. The 
waning Moon was low to the East with lots of Earth shine. The 
temperature in the observatory was a very comfortable 82. Observing 
went well.

It is a real joy to observe early morning like that. No planes or 
other actively. The world is asleep. One gets the feeling of being 
alone and one with the universe. Great time!

Jeff


At 00:38 -0700 07/29/2008, Richard Harshaw wrote:
Tonight (July 28) was awesome from Cave Creek.  Although not as good 
as Cherry Road or the Antennas (of course!), the Milky Way and Great 
Rift were easy to trace, and I was observing 13mag galaxies from 9:30 
pm to 12:30 am.  Hope some of y'all got out and enjoyed this great 
sky.  Supposed to be this good Tuesday night too.

Richard Harshaw

Cave Creek, AZ

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