My last OR for 2007 - Coyote

Matthew Marcus

I saw the OIs posted for Coyote and went there instead of Lake Sonoma. I got there at sunset, and other people got there at about 8. The late arrivals were Chris&Inga (I forget their last names) and Jeff and Lien (I think) Lin. Before they got there I noticed that Mars was twinkling, as it had on Sunday night and that there was a shoal of cloud parked to the N. I sketched the naked-eye view of Comet Holmes and the telescope view of Tuttle, which has now moved to more than a field away from M33. I bopped around doing some eye-candy, when the above-mentioned people arrived roughly simultaneously with the clouds. We did some sucker-hole chasing until the clouds slowly went away. After that, we shared views of more eye candy, going late enough so that some Leo galaxies were included. Saturn looked like a disk with handles, the seeing causing a flat, 2D appearance. Still, Saturn is always worth a look. The Trapezium showed 4 stars, with a fifth fleetingly visible. Early on, the Pleiades looked like a bunch of sparkly PNs, which got smaller as the night wore on. Though the sky was a bit bright, the Rosette showed up reasonably well with an Ultrablock at 36x. I left at ~1:30, which is about when the moon would have been rising.

mam

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