[Lvas] Last Night Observing

Mon Mar 23 08:25:03 PDT 2009

Roger I have truly enjoyed this exchange. To date I have just lurked but
I would like to contribute. With my skies, imaging is my best
opportunity to do this so I will attempt NGC2403 and the Virgo Cluster
to see if I can come up with something useful. I am a beginning imager
so this will be a welcome challenge. Thanks again for your efforts
here.

Jim Gianoulakis

Jim Gianoulakis
Manager Application Services Mobile
702-876-7093
702-253-7213 fax
jim.gianoulakis at swgas.com 

>>> roger ivester <drivester at hotmail.com> 3/21/2009 7:30 AM >>>
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

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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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