Castro Valley Feb 18, 2004

by Richard Crisp

It did end up clearing up for a while up in Castro Valley last night. Around sundown, it was broken about half cloudy. By 7:30 when I checked again, it was clear and transparent and dark!

I hemmed and hawwed around for 15 minutes trying to decide if I really wanted to set up my imaging gear with clouds potentially threatening, but ended up doing so anyway.

By 9pm I was shooting M65/M66 and ended up getting 5 exposures in before the clouds moved through again.

About an hour and a half later, it cleared up again, but I decided to pack up and get some sleep due to it being a work night.

I got home early enough today so I could get some flats to process the image.

The seeing was actually pretty good last night.

Here's the result

http://www.rdcrisp.darkhorizons.org/m65_m66_page.htm

no color this time, ran out of clear sky and then got tired when it returned.

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Posted on sf-bay-tac Thu Feb 19 21:12:09 2004 PT
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