MB OR Tuesdee night

by Casey Fukuda

It's late, 1 AM, and just the facts. It turned out to be a great night for observing at MB tonight.

Attending: Lance & Mary Boehm, Phil Terzian, Bob Jardine, Peter McKone, Rod Hines and yours truly

-great, clear, open sky window between 1830 and 2330
-6 stars in the Trapezium, good seeing
-Hinds Crimson Star
-Saturn at 400 power
-Jupiter looking good only 20 degrees over the eastern horizon
-Fog layer over the Silicon Valley creating dark MB skies and a temperature inversion
-Warm winter night, not short sleeve weather, but no gloves or neck scarfs needed
-M35, M36, M37, M81 & M82
-Rod Hines MB first light with new and improved XT10 got Peter's blessing
-Phil's cool home engineered and made newtonian collimation tool, worked great on Rodney's new XT10
-2320, huge bolide due south, estimated at 1/8 the diameter of the moon