by Jamie Dillon
This trip was to meet some online friends and pick up a box of books. They live on the BLM land, a short distance from the river. The skies there are always memorable, so Felix came along.
(Felix is a Celestron 11" f/4.5 Dobs with optics made by Discovery Telescopes. Was using a 22 Pan, 16mm UO Koenig, 10mm and 6mm Radians.)
The sky at night was crowded with stars, well past 6.5 limiting magnitude. One of my hosts had had a 4.5 inch reflector once upon a time, and was thinking of astronomy for a career till college physics came along. So there were informed requests, as well as knowledgeable and fascinated folks to show stuff to.
We saw galaxies, planetaries, open and globular clusters, a double and a quadruple star. You might just guess which ones we saw. Robyn and Janaia had just been backpacking to a ridge some 70 miles from there, and said the skies were twice as good. Yes I'll get directions.
Real fun trip, plus I got to go swimming in the river, yessirree.
Cheers,
Friend Jamie
Posted on tac-sac Aug 11, 2005 01:25:15 PT
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