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Thanks, Stu. Troy

Troy...sorry, I won't be able to make it tonight. Good luck, don't freeze... Stu [email protected]> wrote:

Good morning, I'm making an early 'Go" call for tonight. It will be breezy today - more so Southside & Coast than up here at YRSP - but it should lessen later this AFTN. Obviously, it will be cold so

THAT WOULD BE AWESOME! Layer-up, it'll be cold.

Here are my results from the other night.STT 64 did see all three components after about 30 to 40 minutes work. SAO 76126 Just did the AB pair. G&H components not too hard separation, actually easy,

Naw, draw the line at the ridiculous components! I try to stop at 11th magnitude more or less. Those are challenging enough.I didn't say it was easy :) I just changed the internal battery in the

Holy expletive Mark! At least one of those doubles looks maybe on the edge of impossibility. SAO 76126 is Celaeno, the faintest naked-eye star of the “seven sisters” Pleiades at mag 5.46. It has

I got in a few hours of? observing before my Losmandy mount gave up the ghost with power failure indication. It truly does not like the cold weather. The battery had been sitting for a few weeks so I

Hey Troy. These clear winter early sunset nights are enticing. I am actually considering getting off my couch and coming up. Carpe Noctem Bill McLean

That's how it goes it seems. Red spot tonight on Jupiter around 10. I have an AR 152 but have not had much luck getting the power up for planets that require higher power. I do like it for deep sky

100% agree. I used my 6" ES AR152 refractor instead of the C11. It was indeed "rough" as you said. On nights like this, I get my astro 'fix' from Jupiter b/c no matter how bad the seeing is, it's

Not much of one last night. Since Mars is about the same rotation as we are you get the same face for nights in a row.

Thanks Mark - always like to read your observations.

The good news: *Transparency* looks good & *Seeing* looks decent for wintertime. The bad news: the Sunset temperature forecast is *30F*, the 11PM temperature forecast is *18F*. Brrrr ... You know the

Seeing was pretty rough as expected with a cold front coming in. It was not impossible to do any work on Mars but only the most rudimentary stuff. In short, the usual. I toggled between 239x and 197x.

Oh yes the brightest thing in the sky when? it does reflect

I didn’t even know that nasa had a solar sail. I’m out of the loop. Will

Magnitude 1.8 Looked back on the Monday pass schedule and time.

I hope it doesn't bother you because there are loads of them. The picture enclosed is a good example of what can't be seen telescopically.? But I do recall a couple of nights, 3 to 5 years ago, when

Thanks Mark.? I didn't really expect to see any surface detail in my scope.? When I set these kinds of challenges for myself I really don't expect to see anything. But sometimes I do get my hopes up