[AZ-Observing] Re: A lovly night for photometry (NOT)
- From: Stan Gorodenski <stan_gorodenski@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 22:04:30 -0800
Sorry to hear about your problem. Up here Mars is finally coming through
fairly decently. I hope it will be better in a few hours when it gets to
the zenith.
Stan
Jeff Hopkins wrote:
>I have been doing photometry on VV Cep for the last few months trying
>to catch the secondary eclipse of this binary system. The best place
>to do photometry is where the star is close to the meridian. I just
>came back in from trying as VV Cep is approaching the meridian. It
>seems someone has decided to hire a light show just north of me on
>Camelback. Four multimillion candlepower lights are now randomly
>sweeping back and forth across the sky exactly where VV Cep lies. It
>totally baffles me why there is concern about green laser pointers
>when something like this is allowed.
>
>Does anyone know how we can get these light shows banned? It just
>makes me sick as it is a beautiful night. These lights cover the
>whole northern hemisphere from my location.
>
>Here's hoping they burn out!
>
>Jeff
>
>
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