Montebello Wednesday Night

by Phil Chambers


The high thin stuff seemed to move off to the east around 6:30 or so. When I got there Bruce was already set up with his 18" Starmaster. It turns out we were the only ones there for the evening (except for the frogs and occasional Coyote)

I set up my C11 and we found stuff to look at until the wind picked up and we left around 10 pm.

The sky looked pretty good for the evening but the seeing had a high frequency ripple that allowed no detail on Saturn and Jupiter.

Bruce showed me some nice views of Thor's Helmet, the Fornax Galaxy cluster and several other obscure galaxies.

It was a nice relaxing evening after so many cloudy nights.