Conditions at the Peak Monday Night

by Peter Natscher

Bob and I observed Œtil midnight. At 11 pm, the temp. was 31°F at 55 RH, no breeze, conditions quite ok for us to observe in. At 8:00 pm, the sky¹s threshold mag. was 6.4 overhead in Andromeda with 1.5 arc-sec star bloating overhead because of the jetstream. I was able to log, describe, and sketch 8 more HII¹s, but not as many as I wanted to. I was definitely in the s-l-o-w mode last night because of the long day at work I had previously, along with the ton of clothing I was wearing and low temp. It was real good to be out in the winter sky!

I planned on seeing the Space Station flyby at 5:50 pm and it was a few minutes early out of the SW and passing very high at 80° overhead. I was able to hand track my 18² Starmaster on the Space Station from its initial SW sky location right on to its ³overhead² passing and still stayed with it as it disappeared in the earth¹s shadow in the NE. The Space Station was really hauling in my eyepiece view (27mm Panoptic). My view of it was detailed enough for me to see plenty of white-colored structure along with its new orange-colored solar array. I didn¹t notice the STS that is hooked up to it, though.

Posted on sf-bay-tac Dec 19, 2006 09:43:03 PT
Converted by report.pm 1.4 Dec 19, 2006 20:51:46 PT

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