[AZ-Observing] Lowell Star Party III
- From: BillFerris@xxxxxxx
- To: az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2005 15:10:06 EDT
I just got home from LSP III about an hour ago. Saturday afternoon, the
weather looked a little iffy with clouds scudding into Arizona from Mexico.
But
the skies cleared by sunset giving us a sweep of the weekend; three full
nights of observing.
Highlights from the weekend include M57 and the central star...the Egg
nebula...NGC 100...Pease 1 in M15...NGC 7538, an emission nebula Jim Roberts
calls
the Ghost...and Mars in good seeing at 3:00 AM. I'll post links to my
sketches and notes in the next day or so.
Late last night the weirdest thing happened. Three or four times, my
ServoCAT drive engaged for short slews without me pushing any of the hand
controller
buttons. Once, it even began moving as though slewing to an object. This
morning, I found out the guy who was setup the next spot over has an 18-inch
with ServoCAT and a wireless hand paddle. I think his paddle transmissions
were
interfereing with my drive. Doh!
I didn't attend any of the talks or programs, so will let somebody else
comment on those. Tonight, Lowell is open to the public offering free
observing
through the 24-inch Clark refractor; part of their participation in the 2005
Flagstaff Festival of Science.
Regards,
Bill in Flagstaff
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