Fremont Peak Fri June 11

by Richard Crisp

Up at the pads area we had Peter Natscher, Jeff Crilly,. Rob Hawley, Marko Sillanpaa and yours truly. We received word via human relay that Bob Cz was in the SW parking lot. I am not sure who else might have been over there.

The skies had light cirrus at sunset but did clear shortly after. The temps were coolish, perhaps in the low 50s/high 40s but there was a SW breeze that was unrelenting until sunrise that made things feel a lot colder. Fortunately it was dry. No need for any dew equipment

Seeing was only average. Not bad but not good either. Darkness was very good and I think the transparency was also quite good, especially after midnight. TH Milky Way was very prominent.

I took a three hour image of M16 using my 3" f/4.5 Tak FCT-76 using emission line filters and my ST10XME.

Here's the image:

http://www.rdcrisp.darkhorizons.org/m16_eagle_nebula_widefield_page.htm

Posted on sf-bay-tac Jun 12, 2004 13:52:13 PT
Converted by report.pm 1.2 Jan 01, 2005 11:20:54 PT