15 September 2007
On my way into Manhattan on the #7 train I thought I caught a glimpse of Mercury next to either the Crystler or the Empire State Building. A factory blocked my view and then the train turned and I wasn't able to recover it. It might have been a plane, but when there is one of them there are usually many and all I saw was one point of light. I haven't seen Mercury recently yo know how bright to expect it to be in a twilight sky. The sky looks very clear out over the city and I am wishing I didn't have a sea chantey sing to go to tonight so that I could go out observing.
I didn’t make any notes on what I saw with Peter. He had been observing for a while and found a couple of clusters that he thought might be new so we looked at them. The first was an open cluster in Cepheus. When he zoomed into the area in Plead Atlas he found that King 10 was where he was looking. That is now Peter’s Mistake 1. There was another group of stars up in Cygnus that isn’t marked in Plead Atlas. It is a potential Peter’s Mistake 2 as something somebody has already found or not a real cluster, or it maybe something real.
| Observing Location | TotL | ||||||||||||||
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| Observational Period | 2345-0130 EDT | ||||||||||||||
| Atmospheric Conditions |
It looked clear when I left the sea chantey sing and Peter had said that he would probably be at TotL so I stopped off on the way home to see if he was there and he was. It was chilly and Kin had already bailed out. I was there in shorts and a windbreaker so it was chilly but not unbearable.
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| Instruments | Teleport 10" Donsonisn reflector – Peter
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| Observing Party | Charlie Ridgway
Peter Tagatac |
Today was a great day. I spent the afternoon out at the Hall of Science playing on the radio and made my first RTTY contacts. This evening I had the sea chantey sing. And tonight I got in a couple of hours of observing in a nice clear sky.
posted by Charlie at 13:19
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