Went to Lockwood Valley observation point last night to do some observing. There were about 10 scopes there which is pretty busy for this little known site. We had 15", 14.5" DOBs, AR6, NS8, NS5, and a few of others, I didn't take note of the type, at the site.
Mars observations were at best fair. I am still disappointed in the Mars views for the last 4 weeks.
Did get to see about 20 Messier and NGC objects before I became too tired to stay up longer. This was my 3rd night and 2nd night in a row for this week!
Views were quite good for The Veil, North American, Swan, Trifid and all the other Nebulas. Andromeda was awesome and dominated that part of the sky. M13 was nice as well.
Took a few looks through others scopes and enjoyed the chats with new people.
Tear down was at 12:30am and I was pretty beat. I took a few minutes to watch the TV where one of the guys was showing Mars. Still a bit soft on the view.
My 15" DOB was working very well and I shared it with a man that had no scope to use. He enjoyed driving the DOB and said he was amazed at the fine optics of the scope and the great movement of the bearings. Made me smile, it is always nice to hear someone else say your scope is top notch. I think he is convinced that TV Naglers are the thing to have now! ;^) Look through them and you might as well pull out the checkbook.
Hope everyone had a good weekend with dark skies like we did.
Floyd
Mars observations were at best fair. I am still disappointed in the Mars views for the last 4 weeks.
Did get to see about 20 Messier and NGC objects before I became too tired to stay up longer. This was my 3rd night and 2nd night in a row for this week!
Views were quite good for The Veil, North American, Swan, Trifid and all the other Nebulas. Andromeda was awesome and dominated that part of the sky. M13 was nice as well.
Took a few looks through others scopes and enjoyed the chats with new people.
Tear down was at 12:30am and I was pretty beat. I took a few minutes to watch the TV where one of the guys was showing Mars. Still a bit soft on the view.
My 15" DOB was working very well and I shared it with a man that had no scope to use. He enjoyed driving the DOB and said he was amazed at the fine optics of the scope and the great movement of the bearings. Made me smile, it is always nice to hear someone else say your scope is top notch. I think he is convinced that TV Naglers are the thing to have now! ;^) Look through them and you might as well pull out the checkbook.
Hope everyone had a good weekend with dark skies like we did.
Floyd
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