[AZ-Observing] Re: Observing Conditions up here
- From: Stan Gorodenski <stan_gorodenski@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 10:10:41 -0700
Hi Jeff,
Jeff Hopkins wrote:
>Hello Stan,
>
>I was observing last night. First time this season. It was a grand
>night, but hot here in Phoenix. At 21:30 it was 102 F in the
>observatory. The imaging equipment worked fine, but my LX200 GPS was
>acting up. The GPS would not lock on and the controls were very
>flaky. Also the hand box controller died a couple of times and I had
>to reset things.
>
If this is the same thing that happened to me at a SAC Cherry Rd star
party with my LXD75 10", it may be that you are somehow twisting or
putting too much outward force on the cable where it clips into the
controller, causing a poor connection.
>After about an hour things settled down and worked
>fine. I got some UBVRI CCD data on SZ Herculis. Yes that's right I
>got some U band data, but it is very weak. I was surprised. I have
>nearly a dozen people interested in the Mentor project plus the Meade
>DSI list has expressed interest in a CCD Photometry
>Mentor/Certification project.
>
>
That is great!
>I hope you can get some photometric images of SZ Her.
>
It's interesting that you should mention this at this moment. I just got
off the phone talking to SBIG. I had ordered the UBVRI plus Clear
filters May 30th. They were out and they only now got restocked from
their supplier. Apparently, they were waiting for the B filter. I should
be getting them sometime next week.
Stan
>The 12th is
>slated as the next favorable time for the eclipse, but getting some
>preliminary data is always good.
>
>Good luck.
>
>Jeff
>
>
>At 09:11 -0700 08/10/2007, Stan Gorodenski wrote:
>
>
>>At this moment up here in Dewey the skies are completely cloudless,
>>except for a very low set of clouds to the SE. The last three nights
>>have been very good and so it would seem the Phx NOAA is wrong when they
>>say partly cloudy for tonight and mostly cloudy for tomorrow night, but
>>weather can change quickly.
>>
>>BTW I was out testing my SQM last night. I got a reading of 21.14 in
>>Dewey at my observatory, and 21.49 at the Cherry Rd. observing site.
>>Stan
>>
>>
>
>
>
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