I've been so busy lately. Tax season is really hitting me hard this year. Add to that some cloudy weather, and the sickness earlier in the month, and the result is that the dome shutter is mostly closed these days.
It was predicted to be cloudy tonight but ended up clearing, so I went out for a short session. Too tired to do a long one, and besides the moon is at 90% phase. Nevertheless I observed a few objects:
-Sirius
-Betelgeuse
-Castor A and B
-Pollux
-Saturn, and moons Titan, Rhea, Dione and Tethys
-Merak
-M97 Owl Nebula NGC 3587
-M108 spiral galaxy NGC 3556
The seeing was rather poor (2/5) and transparency was not all that great either - sort of a murkiness in the sky. I started out by re-aligning the scope and all seems to be working well.
One reason I've been working so hard is to get caught up so I can really have a fun weekend next week, I'm planning to attempt the Messier Marathon for the first time. I sure hope it's clear for that. I need the photon time under the dark skies.
BTW I wonder where all the other bloggers have gone, seems like nobody is posting to their blogs anymore.....
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