[Lvas] Lvas Digest, Vol 21, Issue 10

Thu Mar 12 19:38:56 PDT 2009

Roger and Fred, I enjoyed the exchange and the sketches. I was in Death 
Valley the last week of February on a particularly dark night. I was amazed 
at all the galaxies in the area of M 84 - 85. I was using a 10 " Maksutov f 
12.5 with a 24mm televue. The fov is very small but the least little 
movement of the 'scope brought another galaxy in to view. I must have spent 
30 minutes in that one area.

John
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>   1. Re: Our last Deep-Sky object (Fred Rayworth)
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> Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 20:31:23 -0500
> From: Fred Rayworth <rayworth1969 at hotmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Lvas] Our last Deep-Sky object
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> Roger,
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> Very cool drawings! I'll have to go back through my notes to see what I 
> found there.
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> Anyone else out there have some feedback?
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> Fred
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> From: drivester at hotmail.com
> To: lvas at lvlug.org
> Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 00:44:11 +0000
> Subject: [Lvas] Our last Deep-Sky object
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> LVAS
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> This will be our last deep-sky observing object for review...following 
> this months NGC-2403 in Camelopardalis.
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> This would have to be one of my most favorite galaxy cluster's. M-84 and 
> M-86 are the two brighter objects. I really enjoy observing galaxy 
> cluster's and interacting galaxies as in this case you can observe nine 
> galaxies in a 1? FOV.
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> The sketch was made with my 10-inch f/4.5 reflector at 57x. I was using a 
> 20 mm UO Erfle with a 1.1? FOV. The sketch was made from my back deck with 
> a light block curtain. This was an extraordinary evening as both seeing 
> and transparency were excellent. The date and time was 3-16-99 @ 11:00 PM 
> Local EST.
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> The sketch was made with a No. 2 pencil on white paper and I have inverted 
> the colors on my scanner.
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> How many galaxies will you be able to see?
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> We will conclude our observing projects ending with this galaxy cluster 
> with all information due by April 25th. The final report will be issued 
> the first week of May.
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> I hope each of you have enjoyed our deep-sky observing project so far and 
> that everyone has gained something. It is my sincere hope that you will be 
> able to use some of the material and notes to benefit  your own personal 
> observing program.
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> Roger
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> earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how he could look up into 
> the heavens and say there is no God.      Abraham Lincoln
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> Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 20:32:16 -0500
> From: Fred Rayworth <rayworth1969 at hotmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Lvas] Observing: Redstone, Saturday March 14
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> Not really interested with an almost full moon, but I wish you all the 
> best.
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> Fred
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> Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 15:43:43 -0700
> From: scopegeek at gmail.com
> To: lvas at lvlug.org
> Subject: Re: [Lvas] Observing: Redstone, Saturday March 14
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> Depends on how my wife is feeling Saturday - she's having some surgery 
> tomorrow, so it just depends.  I would love to go out with you, since I 
> haven't been out for a couple of weeks.
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> Rob
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> On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 3:36 PM, David Blanchette <Yahoo at awit.com> wrote:
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> Anyone up for a night out?
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> The weather has been tricky this week, but there seems to be a good
> chance for good weather on Saturday.  Friday looks clear, but the
> seeing looks bad, so I'm opting for Saturday.
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> -- David
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> Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 20:37:08 -0500
> From: Fred Rayworth <rayworth1969 at hotmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Lvas] 12 years ago
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> Roger,
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> Wish I could draw like you! Outstanding drawings.
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> I met Hale in Oklahoma in 96 or 97. At the time he was unemployed. Even 
> famous observers have their hard times!
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> Attached is a photo of him posing with me and my oldest granddaughter.
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> Fred
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> From: drivester at hotmail.com
> To: lvas at lvlug.org
> Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 00:20:10 +0000
> Subject: [Lvas] 12 years ago
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> It's hard to believe that it has been 12 years since Hale-Bopp streaked 
> across the overhead and northern sky.
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> I have attached a sketch from the night of March 16th 1997. I was using my 
> 10-inch reflector with a 20mm UO Erfle and a 2.8x UO Klee barlow. 
> Magnification was 160X with a FOV of 0.38? or 23 minutes of arc.
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> The sketch was made at 4:00 AM local EST. The temperature was 29?.
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> I was using high magnification to study the nucleus and coma.
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> Using a small RF telescope at low power I measured a tail of over 5?
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> I noted the coordinates at:    Right ascention: 23h 15m   Declination: 
> +44? 30 minutes
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> Now that was a comet...
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> I also attached NGC 3226-3227 interacting galaxies.
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> Best regards, Roger Ivester
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