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Roland, Mike and Bruce,

I would be happy to head out to Mike's place tonight (thanks very
much Mike!!). It is rare that I can get the right conditions (mainly
weekend nights where I don't have to work in the morning!) to allow
for the trip. I just LOVE the view through your two excellent time
machines!

Bruce, when I have been out to Mikes place in the past, there were
usually at least a couple of smaller scopes of other friends set up
inside the observatory. You, owning a new scope and all, would
probably want to use your own for the most part. Am I right? If Mike
still allows it, you could set your scope up in the Observatory, that
way you could use your own scope and get a look through the big
guys. I usually bring my scope but don't set it up (the word usually
means "the two times I have been there before", in this sentance :))
So if you want to borrow anything,(star charts, eyepieces, etc..) you
can. I would also like to run a little experiment using an 8in SCT
to finally decide on the purchase of a nebula filter . Hopefully
someone may have a nebula filter handy for this, nudge, nudge, wink,
wink. ;-).

I'll keep wtching,

Matt

--- In OAFs@y..., r.prevost@h... wrote:

Assuming conditions improve, and the winds die down this evening,

what

would you prefer Bruce and Matt -- FLO or Mike's place?

Mike Wirths' observatory has very dark skies and superb scopes.

It's

a bit farther out but, hey, so's the view you can see in those

scopes.

Plus Mike's such excellent company (sorry Mike, no blushing, it's
just true). Also, if the winds are medium (20km/h say), it might

be

tough at FLO, but fine in Mike's observatory. I'd be happy to take

up

Mike on his kind invitation, especially if you guys don't mind

going

there too. We could still do FLO soon.

If, on the other hand, neither of you can go that far (approx 1.25
hours?) tonite, then perhaps I might stick with FLO to keep you
company and introduce the site.

Let me know either way soon, OK? ;-)

Rol

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Assuming conditions improve, and the winds die down this evening, what
would you prefer Bruce and Matt -- FLO or Mike's place?

Mike Wirths' observatory has very dark skies and superb scopes. It's
a bit farther out but, hey, so's the view you can see in those scopes.
Plus Mike's such excellent company (sorry Mike, no blushing, it's
just true). Also, if the winds are medium (20km/h say), it might be
tough at FLO, but fine in Mike's observatory. I'd be happy to take up
Mike on his kind invitation, especially if you guys don't mind going
there too. We could still do FLO soon.

If, on the other hand, neither of you can go that far (approx 1.25
hours?) tonite, then perhaps I might stick with FLO to keep you
company and introduce the site.

Let me know either way soon, OK? ;-)

Rol




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Hello again Bruce!!


It seems we have posted at the same time, so as you can see both
Roland and I are planning on heading out to FLO and I would be very
happy to observe with you (and your new scope) tonight!

See ya later!!

Matt
--- In OAFs@y..., "Bruce McGlashan" <mcglashanb2@h...> wrote:

Hi, Matt:

I'm planning to go out to FLO tonight, if I get can access to the

site (I





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Hello All,

I missed the posts yesterday abpout going to FLO. I would have loved
that! Oh well, next time. That will teach me to check the list more
often!

Well it has been about a month since my last observation session and
I am chomping at the bit (...er, or should that be eyepiece?......).
The forcast seems to show a clearing trend, so I am planning on
observing tonight. I will probably head out to Carp, but I am open
to other sites if anyone wants to join me.

The galaxies are waiting!!

Matt




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Sess#288 9:15-12:00pm FLO lm=6.1 s=3/10 var clouds+fog

It was 100% cloudy in Orleans when Attilla posted what I thought was
the rhetorical question: "is anyone observing tonight?" Anyway, in
spite of appearances, Bruce, Attilla and myself had an observing
session at the Fred Lossing Observatory. We were the only three
there that evening.

Sky cleared overhead as we got to Almonte. Bruce set up his still
fairly new (1 month) SCT-8" on his excellent Losmandy mount. Attilla
suggested we maybe use the observatory's 16" scope, so I focused on
that instead of setting up my own. There was some ground fog to look
through, a seeing of 3/10 max. and bouts of cloud cover, so conditions
were not ideal. Here are some of the targets we looked at (in no
order):

NGC4565 - beautiful spindle galaxy showing just a hint of dark lane
M3 - Bruce's view was good and quite bright
M101 - large and relatively non-structured
M51 - hints of spiral
Sombrero - hints of lane only. Nucleus bright.
Castor - ( sep 3.9" binary ) barely split in the 8"- very poor seeing
Gamma Leonis - same as Castor
Jupiter - much churning, low in the sky by the time we'd started.
Mizar - in 8"

Then, all in the same field of view, these eight galaxies:
M84, M86, & NGCs 4388, 4387, 4402, 4425, 4435, 4438

Things got covered over at 12pm, and Bruce's corrector plate got dewed
up completely, in spite of my lending him a dewcap and Kendrick
heaters set for 6/10 heat. Very rare indeed to have this happen.
The cause was that his scope was aimed nearly at Zenith and left there
for 30 minutes while it stood practically in ground fog. Also notable
was Attilla's green laser which was much more "Skywalker" than usual.
;-)

We tore down at midnight and Attilla made an entry in the FLO logbook.
We stopped at Denny's in Kanata on the way home and chatted over
"breakfast" for about an hour. It was fun, amigos.

PS - Hwy#44 is also called Hwy#49 and this can lead to confusion.





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