Coyote Lake, 20 June 2003

by Sean McCauliff

point, I'd like to see any ORs from those that visited Coyote last evening. Somehow, the silence tells me of the conditions.

The silence is more indicitive of lazyness than poor conditions.

Weather: There was some wind until about 10pm after that there were occasional gusts, but it was otherwise still. At around 10:30 I needed to turn on the kendrick on low. It seemed to be clear until about 11:45, then there were some clouds creeping in from the south. I left at around 12:20 there was still alot of good sky, but the constant racket from the racoons finally got to me.

Telescope	LX200GPS 10"
Eyepieces	35mm Panoptic, 17mm Nagler, 12mm Nagler

Jupiter it was swimming, next...
M13, looked at this for about 20 minutes in the 12mm. It seemed shaper than I remembered.
M80 - It was interesting looking. It took me some time to decide if it looked more like a galaxy than a globular.
M4 - I could resolve some stars.
M62 - was sitting in some light pollution, next...
M20 - Wow! This was completely amazing.
M8 - Even more amazing.
M21 - A nice open cluster.
M24 - Astonishing! I've seen photographs, but the experience was something else. Looked around this for about 15 minutes.

There were some clouds to the south. Went back to M13, the computer said this was currently at 87deg 20min altitude @ 11:45, at 70x this almost looked like a photograph. I spend the rest of the night looking at this and the ring nebula, also an amazing view of it.