[Lvas] Imaging Tonight?

[Rob]

Sorry Roger.  I gave it a shot, but couldn't locate the Virgo Diamond in 
the bright lights of Vegas.  Virgo was directly over the city tonight 
and I'm just not proficient at finding objects with my LX200 using RA 
and Dec.  I think I was close, but either didn't know what it should 
look like in the Mallincam, or I just never saw it.  I know it will be 
too late for what you want to do, but I'll give it another shot when I 
can get out to a darker site.  Just couldn't do it tonight with my wife 
still being in the hospital.  I thought I might get lucky and just run 
out to the end of the driveway and pull it out, but not such luck.  Had 
to go to bed by 2:00 so I could go back to the hospital in the morning.

Hope Jim had better luck.

Rob

roger ivester wrote:
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> LVAS all,
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> Just talked with Dr. Don Olive at the coffee shop a few minutes ago. 
> GWU buys time on several robotic telescopes.
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> One is in New Mexico and the other is in Australia, there may be more. 
> He is going to try to get an image of the "Diamond" on both of these 
> scopes. It should be noted that this is not the same as an image from 
> an amateur and is not normally near as good.
>  
> He mentioned to me that Jim Dire is going to try to image tonight from 
> his home here in North Carolina. I'm surprised that he had not told 
> me. It's not looking good...the clouds are beginning to roll in.
>  
> I am so glad that I was able to go out last night for all of my 
> "Visual" work.
>  
> Good luck, Jim and Rob I will be thrilled to see an e-mail tomorrow 
> with the "Virgo Diamond" ...ready to be forwarded.
>  
> Roger
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