Taking advantage of cloud free skies and trying to beat the moon, I took a personal day at work an spent all night Wednesday and Thurday morning working off a little monsoon frustration. I used the club's TIMPA site because of the availability of power. The CCD's I use are not designed for field use and 110V is a necessity. A day of sweating in the sun, digging and dropping cable into trenches has a payoff! A wonderful night! Sitting back a scanning the skies with binos as the CCD pounded away at each target. Lots of meteors, including several with short lived trails. I observed what could only be three launches from Vandenberg late in the evening, two simulataneously and a third a few minutes later. Somebody know what they were to launch all together? Some of the results of the night's work can be found at http://aecooper.home.att.net/recentccd.html. Don't look for the rest of the site, it isn't there... yet. Doing a little re-organizing and cleaning house. Seeing conditions turned the stars into blobs for anything longer than the shortest exposures, but transparency was good and I had a chance to work bugs out of the new CCD setup. Unfortunately the order from Digi-Key with the six contact RJ connectors to repair the motor cables on the mount didn't arrive until the next day, so I had to put up with a troublesome dec. drive. For those of you going out this weekend, clear skies! I would be out to, but my wife only puts up with this sort of behavior once a moon. Andrew -- Andrew Cooper Tucson, AZ mailto:acooper@xxxxxxxxx http://whitethorn.house.home.att.net --- This message is from the AZ-Observing mailing list. If you wish to be removed from this list, send E-mail to: AZ-Observing-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, with the subject: unsubscribe. The list's archive is at: //www.freelists.org/archives/az-observing This is a discussion list. Please send personal inquiries directly to the message author. In other words, do not use "reply" for personal messages. Thanks.