[sac-forum] Re: Saddle Mountain

Rick;

I am very happy to hear that you enjoyed the site, I hope that others did
also.  I look forward to some good observing from there.  Here's hoping
that next weekend at the Antennas will also work well.

See ya;
Steve Coe


> OK, finally getting a chance to report in. Last night there were about 9
> folks at Saddle Mountain. The night was clear although a light breeze was
> blowing until about 2200. The breeze kept the seeing down to about a 6,
> while the transparency was a 7.
>
> My plan was to work through AJ's Call for observations in Orion, Which
> turned out to be a quicker exercise than planned as there were several
> objects that were visible in he same FOV.  After finishing that, I spent
> the
> rest of the night revisiting some favorite objects, Including NGC'S 1808 &
> 1792 in Columba (A nice pair of galaxies that will fit in a 1 degree
> FOV.),
> M44, NGC 2903 among others.
>
> One new object that has eluded me for a while was finally captured: R
> Leporis, A carbon star in Leporis (Duh!) It was nice bright red with a
> slight twinge of orange.
>
> I packed up about 2330 and beat the moon home.
>
> This being my first trip to this site, I'll say for a close in site, I
> liked
> it. While you could see headlight from cars on Dobbins road, they did not
> intrude on the site or observing. The clearing itself is quite large and
> will easily hold a lot more cars than we had last night.
>
> Here's looking ahead to next weekend.
>
> Clear Skies
>
> Rick Tejera
> Editor SACnews,
> Public Outreach Coordinator
> Saguaro Astronomy Club
> Phoenix, Arizona
> www.saguaroastro.org <http://www.saguaroastro.org/>
> saguaroastro@xxxxxxx
>
>
>

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