[AZ-Observing] Friday night
- From: Jeff Hopkins <phxjeff@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2008 11:21:16 -0700
Last night was strange. While a bit on the chilly side, the night
looked very promising.
From my backyard on the West side of Phoenix I did some spectroscopy
around 9 - 10 PM and the sky was very clear, exceptionally.
Then I started UBV photometry. At first the reading were all very
high indicating a very transparent night. Then they started going
down significantly. The sky still looked clear. My first thought was
dew. I have a heater on the scope plus I tried a hair dryer. No luck.
The reading continued to drop. The best I can figure out is very thin
clouds moved in.
If you thought your eyes were going bad last night I think it can be
attributed to a degrading sky. Again, visually I could see no change,
even through the telescope optics.
Definitely not a photometric night. Tonight may be better.
Happy Holidays.
Jeff
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