[AZ-Observing] Re: 2004 All Arizona Messier Marathon
- From: AJ <acrayon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 09:24:06 -0700
Jeff Hopkins wrote:
Jeff, sounds like you are set on this procedure. It will be interesting
to see how many you can observe and photograph. I suspect, as does
Steve Dodder, many of the more difficult ones (read fainter, early
setters and late risers) will not be possible and should be skipped in
the interest of time. Not sure how many this will leave, but no doubt
you will find out.
Looking forward to the 2004 Alll Arizona Messier Marathon,
aj
>Thanks AJ.
>
>Actually what I had planned on doing is using a C-8 SCT with 6.3
>reducer, flip mirror/eyepiece/filter and camera. All objects would be
>found/centered using the eyepiece. So in addition to all images
>captured there would be a direct eyepiece observation too.
>
>What could be better than an image to verify the observation?
>
>Thanks for the link. It was interesting to see the history and
>successes. Also interesting was the huge success of SAC during 2003.
>More people succeeded in 2003 at the SAC meet than all the rest of
>the world since this began. Either AZ skies and observers are super
>or extremely lucky.
>
>It would certainly be nice to have hard copy images to back claims
>then noone could dispute whether that was an eyepiece smudge or a
>real observation.
>
>I also found it interesting that noone else seemed to have tried
>digital imaging. With the big popularity of the web cameras, 2004 may
>prove different.
>
>Jeff
>
>
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