Observing Reports are articles about trips to dark sky sites, star parties, public events, astronomical events that we have witnessed or imaged - if we were outside and saw something that we think you might find interesting it'll be posted here. This is also where you'll see the very latest images from our pool of hard-working astrophotographers.
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Written by Charlie Hein & Fred Lehman
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Thursday, 08 February 2007 00:00 |
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Fred's Observing Report: Greetings to all: Our session at "Area 27" tonight was very pleasing and even somewhat productive. Everything went quite well, and the three pictures I took turned out great. Click on any of the images to launch a full sized version. |
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Written by Charlie Hein
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Monday, 22 January 2007 00:00 |
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I was out on Tuesday, January 22, 2007 with Fred and Manuel at Area51. I was specifically playing around with the autoguider in my SBIG ST2000-XCM CCD camera (making certain that my earlier success at autoguiding wasn't some kind of fluke), and shooting M42 only because all I needed to do was polar align and point at it through the finder to get it on the chip (okay, maybe I was a little unmotivated). |
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Written by Charlie Hein
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Thursday, 09 November 2006 00:00 |
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Hi Folks - here's a quick observing report from yesterday's Mercury Transit: I alternated between frustration and enjoyment yesterday during the Transit of Mercury. We happened to have a cold front pushing its way through our area right at the time the Transit started. I completely missed the first and second contact events because heavy clouds completely blocked the Sun. I was just about to give up, completely frustrated and dejectedly mulling over what to break down first when I realized the Sun was shining! I looked up and saw that we had a decent break in the cloud cover so I decided to stay and see what I could get. |
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Written by Charlie Hein
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Thursday, 27 July 2006 00:00 |
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Well, sometimes you just can't win for anything... I spent a long time carefully focusing and framing a wide field shot of M8 (the lagoon), M20 (the trifid), and M21 (an open cluster whose name escapes me at the moment). Here is the test shot that convinced me to shoot: 
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Written by J. Manuel Briseno
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Tuesday, 30 May 2006 00:00 |
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Dear Group, The sky clock from the Area 51 didn't look good around 5:30PM; but looking at the sky conditions we decided to make the trip. Jay, Fred and I. It was a good night, no turbulence, few mosquitoes and no dew. After checked on our neighbors, 2 gators in the canal; we decided to setup. Around 10:00PM I was ready to take pictures. So I started with M61. This one you can see another 2 small galaxies. |
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