28 April 2006
| Location: | Bryant Park | ||||
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| Time: | 1735-1750 | ||||
| Atmospheric Conditions: | It was so late the only place where I had a clear view of the sun was sitting on the steps of the Bryant statue and even from there the sun dropped behind a building while I was watching.
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| Instruments: | Canon 15x50 IS binocular - Charlie
12" Orion Dob - Columbia 11" Celestron SCT - Columbia Fujinon 17x60 binocular - Tom | ||||
| Observing Party: | Charlie Ridgway
Tom Clabough Neil - Columbia grad student Cameron - Columbia grad student |
| Target: | first Crescent Moon |
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| Constellation: | Ari |
| Category: | Lunar |
| Time: | 20060428.2000 EDT | Comments: | I Got it first in the glass then immediately thereafter naked eye; a thin smile just above Interfaith center. I got it in the Dob and you could see that the terminator was lumpy. |
| Target: | Jupiter |
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| Constellation: | Lib |
| Category: | Planet |
| Time: | 20060428.2015 EDT |
| Comments: | Tom's binocular. Moons above and below was above the horizon much sooner than I had anticipated but low on the horizon in thick atmosphere. Initially I could not find any moons |
| Target: | Saturn |
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| Constellation: | Gem |
| Category: | Planet |
| Time: | 20060428.20.30 EDT |
| Comments: | Dob It was small and not as sharp as I would have expected at that low power
I could see the C ring and the ring shadow on the disk but not the Cassini division between the A and B rings |
| Target: | M 81, Bode's Galaxy, NGC 3031 |
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| Constellation: | UMa |
| Category: | Deep Sky Object |
| Time: | 060428.21.11 EDT |
| Comments: | It was a very faint smudge |
| Target: | M13; Hercules Cluster |
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| Constellation: | Her |
| Time: | 20060428.2130 EDT |
| Comments: | very faint, needed averted |
| Target: | M92, NGC 6341 |
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| Constellation: | Her |
| Time: | 20060428.21.45 EDT |
| Comments: | brighter than M42 |
| Target: | Epsilon Lyra |
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| Constellation: | Lyr |
| Time: | 20060428.22.00 EDT |
| Comments: | I could not get them to focus |
| Location: | TotL | ||||
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| Time: | 2300-0015 EDT | ||||
| Atmospheric Conditions: | sky seemed better than at Columbia
cool, no breeze
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| Instruments: | Tac 102 - Peter | ||||
| Party: | Charlie Ridgway
Peter Tagatac Kin Lee |
| Target: | Saturn |
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| Constellation: | Gem |
| Time: | 20060428.23.15 EDT |
| Comments: | It looked much better than at the university |
| Target: | 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 3 |
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| Constellation: | CrB and Her |
| Time: | 20060429.0000 EDT |
| Comments: | Success at last.
I saw both the C and B components in Peter's scope when he put them in the FOV. B was easier than C although it is reported to be dimmer. |
posted by Charlie at 13:28
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