[Lvas] FW: March Deep-Sky Observing Project

Sun Mar 15 12:19:12 PDT 2009

LVAS all,

We have another club that may be interested in our "observing project". The Charlotte Amateurs have at least 250 or more members.

If there is a significate number from the Charlotte Amateurs of which would like to participate in "our" observing project would you the LVAS be interested in extending the program?

Please see the following e-mail...

Best regards, Roger Ivester  

To: deb at steiner4.com
Subject: March Deep-Sky Observing Project
Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2009 15:06:19 -0400
From: jlspacerox at aol.com
CC: drivester at hotmail.com

Deb:
Here's the email from Roger Ivester about his observing project. If you could forward this to all club members, deleting this part of the email and including how I will introduce it below, I'd appreciate it. The image that should go with this is attached as a jpeg.
Thanks,
Jim

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Dear CAAC (Charlotte Amateur Astronomers Club) Members:

A colleague and good friend of the CAAC, Roger Ivester, has started a wonderful visual observing program, open to all who would like to join in. Roger is one of the devoted few amateur astronomers who reproduce their observations by sketching them -- a lost art. Roger's work is extremely detailed and very realistic. 

If you're a fairly serious observer and would like to collaborate with amateur astronomers from across the county, here's your chance. Even if you're a beginning observer, feel free to join in and learn.

Below, is one of the introductory emails that Roger has completed surroundoing his work with the LVAS (Las Vegas (NV) Astronomy Club). 

Please contact Roger directly at: drivester at hotmail.com  and ask for any details to join in.

Thanks and good luck with your observing program...

Clear, DARK skies,

Jim Lamm
President/CAAC

This project is open to all and I would hope that we could have several from our group to participate...either images, notes or anything you would like to contribute.

Paul Webb has a new C-14 at his observatory and has told me he would contribute to the project if time allows.  

This is the second deep-sky object for review in a four month "tentative" trial. I hope that it can be a success and we can continue longer. As you noticed we had only "marginal" participation in our first object review... 

Please let me know if you do not want to be included in this observing project report. There will be information sent throughout the month.  

I am really having fun sharing and doing the report.

I need some feedback. Please let me know if you like it or hate it. If you are enjoying the report and feel that improvements in the format or other could be made...please let me know.

Roger

Las Vegas Astronomical Society,

March deep-sky Object: NGC 2403 Galaxy in Camelopardalis 

We can start early with our March deep-sky observing project as Rob has already sent an image. I think that it is excellent. Please notice all of the details within the halo of this galaxy. Rob, I hope you don't mind my forwarding it to all...both here and the LV community. Thank you for the permission to use all of your images. 

I have many sketches of NGC 2403 beginning December 1994. I will forward a sketch that was made with a No.2 pencil on white paper. I inverted the color on my scanner to give a white on black for the same effect of a white charcoal pencil.

My notes: Dec. 26th 1994; Telescope 10-inch f/4.5 reflector at our dark site in the South Mountains approximately 35 minutes north of Boiling Springs, NC.
Time: 12:30 AM; conditions...both seeing and transparency very good. Temperature 30°, wind calm, very low humidity. 

Eyepiece: 16mm University Optics Konig with the employ of a short Celestron Ultima apochromatic 3 element barlow.  Magnification 142x. The sketch has a FOV of 0.42° and 25 arc minutes.

Description notes of 26-Dec-94: Large, bright, fairly extended and elongated, situated between two bright stars. I can see three stars within the halo, excluding the two brighter stars. 

The Halo extends beyond the brighter stars elongated with the galaxy of SE-NW...on both sides. This object does have a greater concentration in the central region, but only subtle. 

Supplemental observing information: I cannot see the three stars from my backyard and the halo is much less extended using the same scope and eyepiece combination.

Roger

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