[Lvas] Last Night Observing

[roger ivester]

LVAS all,

 

Hope your weather was as nice as mine last night. I didn't stay out very late as I am expecting a much longer session tonight. I came in at 12:00.

 

I worked primarily on our "observing report" objects...NGC 2403 and the Virgo cluster. I spent over three hours on these two objects performing at least 5 sketches on the VC to see what happens upon each change of the eyepiece. 

 

It was just too low in the east at midnight for a "research grade" observation and sketch.  

 

You will be just as surprised with the results as I was. It is not necessarily good...quite to the contrary. There are a number of factors and I am sure that you can figure most of them them out. 

 

Hopefully the weather will be as nice tonight and I can stay out longer hopefully observing   again at about 3:00 AM. I may go to bed and get up at 2:00 AM and observe till sunrise. 

 

I do this on occasion to get early morning objects at or near the meridian. Remember you should never observe an object before two hours before or after the objects highest point for optimum results. 

 

Our report's in the future with all be in a two or three part series. This will allow for shorter e-mails and less time all at once.

 

Part 1: This will be information from reference book sources, and other.

Part 2: Observing notes (or stories) and images. We need as many images as possible, I will forward all that I receive.   

Part 3: If there is enough participation...a final summary on the subject objects. 

 

Per Rob's communication with me on a previous e-mail we both want to keep this thing going. Thanks, Rob for your support. 

 

If we can get some good participation I would be willing to do it as long as all concerned would like. There may be members of the LVAS of which would like to take this project over in the future and I would be a contributor. 

 

I just feel that there are others out there of which could actually do a much better job than me.  You know English majors...with better writing skills, better grammar  and a superior command of the English language. I am not a writer or an english major as you probably have picked up on. If proper writing and other is not important I will continue to go forward. 

 

I think that we can all agree that we need "stuff" like this to have something to read and to cause each of us to get our scopes out. It "kinda" takes the place of a newsletter without much administration...only time out under the night sky, and a report of your evening. As you may have surmised my agenda is to promote visual observations and if possible a sketch....that is up to you.  

 

Everyone can communicate and be recognized for their "personal" achievements.   

 

With good support...we will all surely learn something new in the process.   

 

It would be great to hear a report from some of you as to what occurred in Nevada last night???

 

Best regards, Roger

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 
 
    I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the 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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