by Stacy Jo McDermott
I arrived around 7.15 PM PDT and was followed about 45 minutes later by Mike who has recently gotten an Meade 8" SCT (cloudage magnet?;-). There after Bobby with his 12" LX 200 came in, followed by Brian with his 16" Newtonian and finally, Warren and his beloved, Leela. (BTW, I am remiss in not getting everyone's last names - my apologies!)
I used my 120mm refractor, Voyager,with 25mm Parks 5 element eyepiece, to do my night's observing. I worked on my binary list from the AL and observered logged the following:
Delta Bootes, Xi Bootes, Beta Scorpii - I nicely split this pair, a lovely set, Nu Scorpii, Epsilon Lyra - more elongated than split, Beta Cygni - Alberio, can NEVER get tired of looking at this impressive pair with their UC Berkeley Bears colours of blue and gold and Sigma Cassiopeiae.
I also took in some summer eye candy through my telescope as well as looking at impressive views through Mike's, Bobby's and Brian's telescopes. I was intent on sketching, however, a light layer of dew made my lovely sketching paper damp and I decided to bag that activity (funny thing however - not once did I feel dew on my OTA!)
Around midnight, La Bella Luna made it's grand 3rd qtr appearance and I did some crater viewing - very wonderful looking at our nearest neighbor during 3rd qtr - I don't do it that often.
Ended up locking up the gate at 1.19AM 08/06 as Brian and I were the last to leave. After almost of three weeks of not observing, last night was a well needed observing session - looking forward to more as we space trip into the autumn.
Posted on sf-bay-tac Aug 07, 2004 14:52:53 PT
Converted by report.pm 1.2 Jan 05, 2005 22:19:35 PT