This was an awesome night at the LLCC. Temps were mild, in the 60s. No mosquitoes because I think the LLCC committee sprayed the area beforehand. Thank You! Seeing and transparency were very good. Dew was quite heavy.
We had an incredible display of Nothern Lights around midnight to 1AM. Thin and very bright vertical streamers came up from the North and West. On especially bright one started almost due West, went clear overhead, intersected the Milky Way and went well past the zenith and half way to the eastern horizon.
Some thin cloud rolled through at around 2AM but they didn't last.
Personally, I logged 14 Globs for the AL Globular cluster list and 2 objects on my never ending quest to do the Herschell II list.
Perhaps someone will post a few photos of the Aura.
Bill
NNSF Report August 27-28
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NNSF Report August 27-28
Bill Kocken
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16" f4.5 - home built truss design
8"f6 home built dob
102f7 Explore Scientific APO with Ioptron ZEQ25GT mount
4.5 Orion Starblast
60mm Meade ETX
Homemade equatorial platform
w m kocken at gmail dot com
Re: NNSF Report August 27-28
I agree with Bill. The sky was great as was the aurora. Here are some "hand held" photos.
Mark
Mark
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Re: NNSF Report August 27-28
Those are awesome. Thanks
Bill Kocken
16" f4.5 - home built truss design
8"f6 home built dob
102f7 Explore Scientific APO with Ioptron ZEQ25GT mount
4.5 Orion Starblast
60mm Meade ETX
Homemade equatorial platform
w m kocken at gmail dot com
16" f4.5 - home built truss design
8"f6 home built dob
102f7 Explore Scientific APO with Ioptron ZEQ25GT mount
4.5 Orion Starblast
60mm Meade ETX
Homemade equatorial platform
w m kocken at gmail dot com
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Re: NNSF Report August 27-28
Mark,
Thanks for putting up the excellent Aurora pictures!
Dave
Thanks for putting up the excellent Aurora pictures!
Dave
Re: NNSF Report August 27-28
Several good presentations these past few days.
Here are some photos of the field with everything covered due to the rain.
Mark
https://picasaweb.google.com/markkevc/A ... 4NNSFField
Here are some photos of the field with everything covered due to the rain.
Mark
https://picasaweb.google.com/markkevc/A ... 4NNSFField
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