[Lvas] Observing 4/25/09

[Fred Rayworth]

Jason,

 

So THAT was what you were doing over there??!!! I was so rapt up in my own observing, I didn't realize you were taking photos. I hope my backup lights didn't give you too much grief when I left.

 

Now that I think about it, I remember snippets of conversation about photos.

 

It was great seeing you again. Last time was with the old ASNLV. I remember you talking about meteorites. You probably have quite a collection by now.

 

Fred


 
> From: AJSnyder at cox.net
> To: Lvas at lvlug.org
> Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2009 17:36:46 -0700
> Subject: [Lvas] Observing 4/25/09
> 
> Howdy Gang,
> 
> Well this was my first time out at Red Stone and it's not a bad site, 
> except for the light dome of Las Vegas. I haven't had the chance to 
> do any kind of astronomy for some time, so it was nice to get and look 
> up again, instead of always looking down, looking for meteorites. The 
> skies were pretty good to the East, North, and South. The weather 
> turned out to be Ok. A slight breeze, with it gradually getting 
> cooler in the evening. When I left, around 2 am, the temp read 56 
> degrees. I got a chance to look through Fred's scope at the nine 
> galaxies and Ryan's not to mention Dan's. All had good viewing of the 
> night sky. I got a chance to become re-aquatinted with my scope and 
> had a good time too. The galaxies I looked at were cool, but am 
> thinking of upgrading to a 12" dob. The 8" LX-200 is a great scope 
> for travel and such, but to squeeze out the extra light on some of the 
> objects, well bigger is sometimes better. Here are a few shots with 
> the Cannon Rebel EOS, max time was 45 sec. Just playing around with 
> the shots, and accidentally deleted M-51, which was looking quite good 
> if I don't say so myself, but alas, I deleted it. Jason
> M-20, Swan, and two others I forgot to write down.

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