[Lvas] Perseids Report form western North Carolina

[Shawn Mann]

I went out last night, at around 11:30-12. The light pollution from the moon
and city made it pretty bad, for me. I saw two meteors over 30 minutes
before I went back inside. I got back up at 2:30, but by that time the moon
was high in the sky, with some cloud haze making it even worse, so I went
back to sleep.




On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 8:05 AM, roger ivester <drivester at hotmail.com>wrote:

>  All,
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> Yesterday was very hot and humid with late evening storms everywhere in the
> region. I expected this to linger throughout the night.
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> I got home last night at 9:30 to find a sky that mimicked that of an
> excellent 20° January night.
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> I could see all the stars in the little dipper with ease and overhead the
> limiting magnitude was 6 to 6.5. This was from my backyard. I thought about
> getting out my 10-inch and working on M-27, the Propeller again, M-2
> and small scope challenges NGC-6231 in Scorpius, and NGC-6822 in
> Sagittarius.
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> It was too late to setup and have enough time before the rising of the
> moon. A few quick views may have been possible on some of the observers
> challenge objects and also the excellent small scope objects.
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> *I am really glad that Rob has put NGC-6822 on the small scope observers
> challenge. I have been unsuccessful with this object for many years due to
> the weather, and ambient lights from my backyard. My southern sky is my
> worst.*
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> *I am hopeful that there will be a number of reports of Barnard's galaxy
> as it has eluded me for so long. I am going to a darksite this year and
> maybe it will be easy. Remember to look for PN NGC-6818 which is less than
> 1/2° NNW of NGC-6822. I can normally always see this planetary very easily
> under bad conditions. *
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> *I got up at 3:30 AM to find a completely cloud filled sky. Maybe
> conditions will allow for a few meteors tonight. *
> **
> *Did anyone get out last night in Nevada?*
> **
> Roger
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> *    The moon and stars to govern the night.....   Psalm 136:9*
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