29 August 2007

Observing Location	PSC
Observational Period	1145-1200 EDT
Atmospheric Conditions	Cloud Cover Clear Temperature 80s Wind Calm Humidity Moderate Feels Like Hot and a little humid It was hazy earlier this morning but I can not detct any haze now. Transparency Excellent Seeing I
Instruments	Brunton Compact 8x21 binocular w/Welco gold welder’s glass - Charlie
Observing Party	Charlie Ridgway

Target Sunspots Constellation Leo Category Solar Time yyyymmdd.hhmm 20070829.1145 EDT Comments Distance Light Time 1.009864 AU 8ms Angular Size 31'43.5" Altitude 55.4° Heliographic Latitude (B0) 7.14° Heliographic Longitude (L0) 160.99° Position Angle (P) 20.34° Carrington rotation number (CR) 2060 I only see the same spot today, just a little closer to the leading limb.   Groups Spots R North 0 0 0 South 1 1 11 Total 1 1 11 R = (Groups * 10) + Spots) Group 969 Heliographic Latitude -3° Heliographic Longitude 184° Carrington rotation number (CR) 2060 Mcintosh System Axx This spot is still too small for me to make out any detail in it.

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Observing Location	Met Oval
Observational Period	2100-0045 EDT
Atmospheric Conditions	Cloud Cover Clear becoming Broken Clouds Temperature 77°F Wind Calm to Light Breeze Humidity Moderate Feels Like Humid and a little bit cool When I arrived it was clear all around but before I left clouds were filling in, apparently from the south. It was initially calm but then the wind picked up a bit for a while and died down again before I left. Transparency Good Seeing I
Instruments	SAR: Coulter CT-100 Newtonian reflector - Charlie ~24mm Kellner w/helical focuser (18x) Celestron Omni 20mm (21x) Celestron Omni 2x Barlow
Observing Party	Charlie Ridgway

Target Jupiter Constellation Oph Category Planet Time yyyymmdd.hhmm 20070829.2100 EDT Comments Object Class Classical Planet Elongation ° Distance Light Time (from Earth) AU ms Distance (from Sun) Au Angular Size 38.5" Magnitude -2.2 Central Meridian I/II 47.17°/278.09° Altitude 22° Moons Starry Night Starter graphic Io, Ganymede and Callisto were in a staggered line to one side of the planet and Europa was all by itself a long way from the planet’s eastern limb. ω Oph was way out to the west but within the 36x FoV. The moons all looked very orange.

Target Moon Constellation Psc Category Lunar Time yyyymmdd.hhmm 2007 EDT Comments Lunation 1047 Phase Waning Gibbous Age 17.14d Distance Light Time (from earth) 362,417 km s Elongation ° % Illuminated 96.2% Morning Terminator Colongitude (λ E) 114.3 Evening Terminator Colongitude (λ W) 294.3 Libration in Latitude -1°43’ Libration in Longitude -1°32’ Magnitude -12.80 Angular Size 32'97" Altitude 25° Virtual Moon Atlas graphic The libration arrow is small and pointing around Schicard Relief is discernible as far away from the terminator as Fracastoria but there is less the farther you get from the terminator and the with of the relief zone narrows toward the poles. Power: 36x Peirce, Picard There is a somewhat crescent-shaped white spot inside the eastern rim of Mare Crisium opposite Proclus in the neighborhood of Promontorium Olivium and Dorsum Oppel. Langrenus, Lohse, Vendelinus, Petavius, Snellius, Hase, Funerius, Janssen, Fabricius, Metius, Steinheil, Watt Vlacq, Biela, Rosenberger Fracastoria and a ray from there heading back toward Tycho passing Maurolycus and Maginus Two faint arcs or light and shadow around Mare Nectaris; the larger, outer arc is the Altai Scarp, Rupes Altai The terminator is passing through something big down in the south; Boussingailt ? Posidonius, ray from Menelaus up through Mare Serenitatis into the “dunce cap” passing at the end of the highlands forming the western top edge of Mare Serenitatis and on past Plana/Mason or was it Burg Alexander, Eudoxus, Aristoteles Hercules, Atlas, Endymion Cleomedes, Geminus, Messala Grimaldi, Ricciolo Power: 43x The Montes Cordilera are a white stripe that I don’t always see. The area west of them is a very flat white and I can’t see any of the lakes. This is the side of my FoV where ghosting is most apparent so I am not seeing as sharply as I should be. Schlüter ? Montes Recti, Montes Teneriffe, Mons Pico, Montes Spitzbergen I can see the inner edge of the Alps, the indentation where the Alpine Valley begins, and the bay just to the west of its outlet into Mare Frigoris, but not the valley itself. There appears to be a fairly straight ray, or at least a white stripe, from Proclus across the top of Palus Somni to Montes Taurus and less strongly from there to Posidonius. (see Rükl plate 26) le Monnier, Apollo 17 landing site Power: 18x Burkhardt Bilharz Messier A ray