TSP Report

Well here we are at the 2005 Texas Star Party with nothing to look at. Cloudy skies and its cold. At least the wireless internet access is working.

I did get in a few objects last night when the sky was clear, but poor seeing.

James

Hey James:

Thanks for the update, got a couple of friends out there with you. Every time I pull up the weather, it's clouded over with rain. Hope you get some clear skies soon.

Jay

I took this Sunday morning.
M60, somewhat hazy sky.
JMI 18" f4.5 NGT.
SBIG ST-2000XM camera, two 5 minute luminance exposures binned 2x2 and averaged using CCD Soft and Photoshop for processing. Joe

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with nothing else to due because of the cloud cover I decided to shoot some long exposures of the upper field

http://www.nightshooter.com/tsp2005/index.html

James

Over all TSP had bad weather cloudy and cold, but no hail? Thursday after the storm was the best night. I spent to much time observing and should have stuck to imaging, who was to now it clear? Here is one shot of M105. I left on Saturday could anyone there tell me how Sunday was for observing and the weather? Did I miss anything? I will be at TSP next year! Thanks, Chris

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All, this was amongst the coolest weather TSP has had. I managed to get a few images done and a new asteroid confirmed on the site. On Thursday morning after the storm passed, I managed to get a fair image of Seifert's Sextet, a galaxy cluster in Serpens.
On Friday morning, I aquired, took images of, and sent data on asteroid 2005 JQ5 to the Minor Planet Center all within one hour. This is the first time asteroid data was sent from the Prude Ranch since 1998. 8) Joe.

Image data: NGC6027, Seifert's Sextet.
Telescope: JMI NGT-18, 18" f4.5 Newtonian.
Camera: SBIG ST-2000XM.
Exposure: 10, 10, 7, 10 minute LRGB respectively.

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