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Chiefland Last Night

Started by Walter, 04/03/2003 04:01PM
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Walter Hamler
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I just got home from last night's trip to Chiefland. Couldn't stay longer but the one night was fantastic. About 9:30 PM EST there was a cloud due south about 40* up. At first it looked like the small Magelanic Cloud, but wrong hemisphere! Shortly you could see it was expanding and getting thinner. It looked real spooky through the 15x70's ! Anybody else see it?
The skies were really dark but the blasted dew came in with a vengence about 11:00 PM so I had to pack it in, as I don't have dew heaters! YET! That problem starts getting tackled tomorrow. (Gotta get some sleep now!)

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I didn't see it first-hand, but there was a similar report of an observation of a mysterious cloud south of alpha Hydrae from near Richmond, VA, at 8:31 pm EST on 4/2/03. The observer reported that it dissipated.

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