Some of my recollections:
- Nine Virgo galaxies in one field of "Termi-Nagler" view - forming
a
kind of face formation.(includes m84 & 86 I think).
Which I believe Roland was describing as being a face - someone else
was up the 25" (Matt??) and was asking whether two of the galaxies
were Roland's nose. Which needless to say got misinterpreted ;-) I
think later on the cluster was being described as "Roland's face" or
"Roland's galaxies" or some such.
Mike Z was looking at something (a galaxy? there were a lot observed)
when a meteor went through his field of view) and later both myself on
the 18" and Mike W on the 25" were observing another galaxy (sorry I
really don't have the names down - or rather numbers) when a meteor
went through the field of view and we both saw it. Synchronized
galaxy/meteor watching. All we needed was nose plugs and bathing
caps.
General discussions that a reasonable route to happiness would just be
to give all our money to Rick Singmaster (Starmaster) and "Uncle Al"
Nagler. I can certainly vouch that a big Nagler is one way to win
friends and influence people ;-) Too bad its wasted on you people
'cause you're too darn friendly (and generous with knowledge and toys)
for it to make any difference.
Lots of satellites.
Mike Z.'s 1/50 sec deep sky picture. Mike realizing that he'd left
his camera lens piggy backed on his scope long after removing the
camera.
Matt's amazing jumping hat. Someone ought to bring some duct tape -
we'd take care of that!
Roland wrote:
P.S.- This was observing session #289 for me - only 10 more to get
done before May 24th, midnight, to achieve my self-imposed challenge
of 300 observing sessions in the three years - for 100 avg. per year
since I got this SCT-8"... wish me luck!
Luck
Or to be more verbose - wow, what was your count after two years (I
have to imagine last year put a bit of a crimp in your observing).
I'm still gradually learning the sky, and while last fall (the very
interesting session on Armstrong Rd. (or is it Anderson?, I keep
getting the two names mixed up) with Richard and...) I managed to
learn (before going out) where a few things were - and find them by
myself, I haven't done much of that lately. The one downside of being
out with you guys - you can make things even easier than a GOTO scope.
So right now I still feel like a tourist - one day I hope to become a
resident.
And in closing - lots of thanks to Mike for having us out there (and
getting rid of the clouds and other junk in the air).
Rob
