[AZ-Observing] Re: Friday night
- From: "Gene A. Lucas" <geneluca@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2008 12:16:11 -0700
When I drove over to town for a paper this morning, I noticed frozen
drops on my windshield...
The guy at the qwik market said it actually snowed (a few flakes...)
last night up here in Fountain Hills...(!)
It started out partly cloudy, with a big rainstorm up to the north over
the mountains in late afternoon.
It sure was cold! It's only 40 degrees F downstairs in my uninsulated
workroom under the balcony.
But all the snow that was on the Four Peaks and the mountains up towards
Payson is gone today...
No white stuff on the McDowells, either... Probably all the rain we've
had. (Well over an inch this past week.)
My brother in Lakeland, Florida said it was 80 degrees and sunny back
there....
Cheers,
Gene Lucas
(17250)
Jeff Hopkins wrote:
> 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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