[AZ-Observing] Re: Great Weekend at Schwaar-Gaze
- From: rick.rotramel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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- Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 10:07:57 -0700
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> From: Russell Chmela~ [SMTP:rchmela@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Was surprised at how much more Yuma was in the sky than my last
visit but it was not too bad.
The Yuma glow was brighter, perhaps amplified by the reflection off
the cirrus clouds in the low western horizon. More and more people in Yuma
bring more lights, errr!
> Some morning horizon clouds made it not possible for a two-comet night
> with a
> absence of WM1(Linear).
>
I was able to find all three comets at the Schwaar-Gaze, Comet
Loneos was about 10th mag. in Cygnus just south of M39, was a small not
quite round, fairly faint glow.
Comet Linear WM1, about 7.4 mag, was found and I was quite surprised
to see a bright coma and a bright nearly stellar nucleus with a nice tail
filling up about a third of the 16mm Nagler, 112x view in the Pierre Schwaar
16" f4.4 telescope. I had a great night of observing 'till 4:30am, Sunday.
I gave my respects in the morning to the Schwaar memorial at the
north end of the field and afterwards I looked up towards the sun to see a
big ring around it reflecting off the clouds, I remarked to Jack and
Jennifer, "Look, Pierre is winking at us."
Rick Rotramel,
SAC
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