[LVAS] LVAS Digest, Vol 27, Issue 20

Wed Oct 7 17:51:31 PDT 2009

Our April Japanese guest, Yukihito Koga, found an asteroid (17516) which was 
named after him this month!!! See:

http://serennu.com/blog/

Also:

http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=17516;orb=1;cov=0;log=0;cad=0#orb

Can we put an announcement in our LVAS website Rob?

John B

The list is alphabetical so look for kogayukihito. Can we
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> Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 23:44:28 +0000
> From: roger ivester <drivester at hotmail.com>
> Subject: [LVAS] Last opportunity?
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> I mentioned the other day in an e-mail that I would not be able to supply 
> any new information to the observers challenge due to the poor weather for 
> the entire month, and most of last. The forcast is also terrible through 
> the coming weekend even if it did clear off as the moon would be a problem 
> unless I stayed up pretty late.
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> An 11th hour miracle sky has just appeared and I am getting my stuff 
> loaded to go to the South Mountains to observe the Helix, and small scope 
> objects N-6231 and NGC-6822.
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> Will the sky last? I am leaving this very moment.
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>    The moon and stars to govern the night.....   Psalm 136:9
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> Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 16:20:18 +0000
> From: roger ivester <drivester at hotmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [LVAS] Well????
> To: Fred Rayworth <fred.rayworth.ctr at nellis.af.mil>, <lvas at lvlug.org>,
> Steve Davis <steve.davis at fascontrols.com>
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> Fred, thank you for your interest in regard to the observing session in 
> the South Mountains of NC last night.
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> I hope that all will find this report interesting.
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> It was amazing. The sky just opened up just giving enough time to see the 
> Helix, but NGC-6231 was in a bad location as we worked hard to see it 
> before it was lost in the treetops and haze due to it's southerly 
> position.
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> NGC-6231 is filled with many faint stars but due to the haze and some 
> intermittent clouds in that area could see only 10 or 12 of the brighter 
> ones using the 4-inch refractor. A higher altitude and a clear sky would 
> have presented a beautiful cluster.
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> Steve Davis brought his 12-inch Lightbridge and we would have been in 
> trouble without it. The Helix was bright and easy with a darker central 
> region using averted vision. An O-III was absolutely necessary. The nebula 
> "almost vanished" when the filter was removed. A mostly round very faint 
> light glow was all that remained with the removal of the filter.
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> Steve is a fabulous and accomplished observer and I sure appreciated and 
> enjoyed his company.
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> My notes and memory from 1992 using my 10-inch indicated that a filter was 
> required when observing the Helix. During that session I used only a 
> nebula filter. Of all the objects that I have observed over the years I 
> can remember that night very well in '92 and can still see the view of the 
> Helix in my mind.
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> Steve discovered something pretty interesting. We would observe the Helix 
> with the O-III and then remove the filter...all of the stars would remain 
> in place. The central star and some of the others were very easy. I would 
> then draw the stars and then look again with the filter in order to 
> properly place the stars within the nebula in their correct location.
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> A nebula filter actually worked best as it would not dim the embedded 
> stars so much. I could draw the stars with the nebula filter in place.
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> The 4-inch barely showed the Helix. It was difficult at best. A mostly 
> irregularly round, even texture, dim, almost featureless circle. However 
> it should be noted that we did have significant moisture in the air. My 
> note and sketch pads became soaked.
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> NGC-6822 was going toward the west and was lost in the haze and some 
> "pesky" clouds in that area.
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> Shortly after we started the clouds rolled in and we thought it was a 
> total loss, but after only 20 minutes or so it cleared cleared out. We 
> worked diligently on the Helix.
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> The propeller in M-13 was unbelievable with the 12-inch...so easy with all 
> the lanes showing nicely.
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> We spent some time on M-27 and the central star would "wink" with great 
> regularity. M-27 was almost a complete circle in the 12-inch, not like my 
> sketch from my backyard under less than idea conditions using my 10-inch 
> from July.
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> At 10:45 PM the clouds covered the entire sky...just giving us enough time 
> to at least get the Helix, and NGC-6231. Unfortunately we could not get 
> Barnard's Galaxy.
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> On the trip back home it was completely cloudy and it began to mist rain 
> again. We were fortunate indeed to have been able to take advantage of the 
> short 2.5 hour window of opportunity.
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> It was indeed the 11th hour opportunity that I had hoped for.
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> Roger
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> Subject: Well????
> Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 05:43:15 -0700
> From: fred.rayworth.ctr at nellis.af.mil
> To: drivester at hotmail.com
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> Roger,
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> Saw your note last night but didn?t get to respond.
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> How did it go last night? Did you see anything?
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> Fred
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