--- In OAFs@y..., rob.robotham@a... wrote:
Some of my recollections:
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.
Yeah, what a great laugh that was... For those of you who have "The
Backyard Astronomer" book handy, you can see what I call 'the face' on
page 159, except that we were looking at it sideways in the scope.
Matt's amazing jumping hat. Someone ought to bring some duct tape -
we'd take care of that!
Or an industrial power stapler! ;-)
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).
As of May 24th 2000 # of observing sessions was 209. It has been a
slightly tough year indeed, Rob.
I don't know if you realize it, but last night was a very unique night
indeed, for the details that we could see in the skies. The stuff of
observing legends...
BTW - Janice, who missed all this by being stuck at home with some
work, almost assaulted me with a large size roll of Jumbo Paper towels
when she realized what she'd missed. Thankfully, Love prevailed at
the last moment, saving my head from her envious blows... ;-)
Mike said on the phone to me today: "Wasn't that just amazing!?"
To which I replied: "Bet that's why you build it in the first place."
He said: "Yeah... exactly."
There's no more to say.
Roland (aka Photonman)
