Rick; I am very happy to hear that you enjoyed the site, I hope that others did also. I look forward to some good observing from there. Here's hoping that next weekend at the Antennas will also work well. See ya; Steve Coe > OK, finally getting a chance to report in. Last night there were about 9 > folks at Saddle Mountain. The night was clear although a light breeze was > blowing until about 2200. The breeze kept the seeing down to about a 6, > while the transparency was a 7. > > My plan was to work through AJ's Call for observations in Orion, Which > turned out to be a quicker exercise than planned as there were several > objects that were visible in he same FOV. After finishing that, I spent > the > rest of the night revisiting some favorite objects, Including NGC'S 1808 & > 1792 in Columba (A nice pair of galaxies that will fit in a 1 degree > FOV.), > M44, NGC 2903 among others. > > One new object that has eluded me for a while was finally captured: R > Leporis, A carbon star in Leporis (Duh!) It was nice bright red with a > slight twinge of orange. > > I packed up about 2330 and beat the moon home. > > This being my first trip to this site, I'll say for a close in site, I > liked > it. While you could see headlight from cars on Dobbins road, they did not > intrude on the site or observing. The clearing itself is quite large and > will easily hold a lot more cars than we had last night. > > Here's looking ahead to next weekend. > > Clear Skies > > Rick Tejera > Editor SACnews, > Public Outreach Coordinator > Saguaro Astronomy Club > Phoenix, Arizona > www.saguaroastro.org <http://www.saguaroastro.org/> > saguaroastro@xxxxxxx > > >