[AZ-Observing] Re: Moon on Sunday night
- From: "Steve Coe" <stevecoe@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2006 22:11:06 -0700
Jeff;
I had feeling you might be out getting some good data at the same time I =
was
observing, the clear air must make the photometer really work great.
More like that, more like that;
Steve Coe
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Subject: [AZ-Observing] Re: Moon on Sunday night
I concur with Steve!
An excellent night (bright, but very transparent). I got some of my=20
highest counts in the UBV band tonight. I stayed out for 3 hours=20
getting data and am just now getting warm. There were some thick=20
clouds to the west that drifted to the northeast. There was one=20
contrail. Other than that the sky over Phoenix was crystal.
Jeff
At 21:27 -0700 3/12/06, Steve Coe wrote:
>Well, after all that rain it certainly is transparent. Actually the =
seeing
>was pretty steady. But, the bitter cold (43 degrees!) chased me inside
>after 45 minutes of viewing the moon with the 8 inch.
>
>
>Pythagoras
>
>133X with double polarizer, this has often been a favorite because it =
is
>easy to spot, there are two medium sized craters "behind" Sinus Iridium
that
>point right at it, almost. This is a large prominent crater with a =
large
>central peak. There is some slumping of the walls and the floor is =
rather
>smooth, at least the part I can see that is in sunlight. There is a =
nice
>shadow of the central peak thrown across the crater floor. There is =
some
>hummocky ground between Pythagoras and Oenopides.
>
>
>
>Oenopides
>
>133X and double polarizer; this is a medium sized crater with no =
central
>peak. The floor is smooth. The outer ring is broken in two small =
spots
>that are on the side of the crater opposite Pythagoras. The walls have
>slumped somewhat in a small area.
>
>
>
>Babbage
>
>133X and double polarizer, this is a very ruined crater, it is filled =
with
>lava. There are 4 small craterlets across the floor and the walls have
been
>broken in several places so that it appears that the lava spilled out =
and
>left a ruined ring crater.
>
>
>
>In honor of Charles Babbage, my venerable old computer quit tonight. =
After
>many years of excellent service, my 700 MHz Athlon with 64 Meg of RAM =
and
2,
>count'em 2, hard drives, one 2 GBytes and the "big one" at 6 =
GigaBytes;-)
>It has lost its mind and needs to go to the big recycle shop in the =
sky.
>
>
>
>Clear Skies to us all;
>
>Steve Coe
>
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