Hello all.
I started watching Vesta from the Grand Canyon North Rim Star Party early last
month. Showed it to some of the visitors up there. It has moved a lot since
then. Nice to watch something moving even faster than Venus!
Mars Update: I got up at 3:30am and had a long look at Mars which is still very
much having the global dust storm. The planet was just a featureless
yellow-orange ball of bright light. I sure hope the storm dies out real soon so
we can view Mars and all the surface features this summer.
The seeing was very good and the morning temps were about 72 degrees. Real Nice.
Uranus and Neptune are easily seen in the morning also. They are tiny green and
blue discs which move a great deal slower than Vesta.
The moon was nice clear and bright too.
Later, Kevin Kozel
On July 1, 2018 at 10:37 PM Bernard Miller wrote: > > > Nice work David. > >--
Bernard > > > -----Original Message----- > From:
az-observing-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx On Behalf Of David Douglass > Sent: Sunday,
July 1, 2018 7:49 AM > To: az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject:
[AZ-Observing] FW: 4-Vesta Results... (Whew-Almost Missed It) Try-2 > > Man,
that original post was hard to read. > I will try it again without the quote
marks, dots, and stuff. > > > > At the appointed time, I was on target. > >
But where was it? > > I had a nice guide star to lock onto for imaging. But >
!! That is a big asteroid !! > > > > AND It was NOT moving very fast. Oh, itAnd then, I realized the problem. My guide star was the target. Yikes
was moving. > > > > Here is a link to the beginning and ending images
combined, that covers a little over 1 Hr. > > That is NOT a double star!Ã
This is two images (Begin) and (End) combined. > > My images were 30sec with
a 1 min pause in between. > > The FOV here is 34x24 ArcMin (think Moon
ââ¬â [sort of] ) > > > >
http://www.az-dahut.net/Obs-Log-Sheets/AST-4.Vesta-200180630-BeginEnd.1Hr.jpg ;
check out my image. > > If there was a nice star in an otherwise group ofHope you all got a good view. > > If you think you missed it. Well,
small dim stars, then you probably found it. > > > > > > David Douglass > >
David@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (main) > > Dmdouglass@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Alternate) > >
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