I'm typing tonight's blog using MS Word, and then will upload it to the net later. It's mostly cloudy right now, at 8:45 p.m., so it does not look too good as far as observing goes.
I started up the scope, it had parked fine last night (actually this morning), and slewed over to observe Sirius even though the sun had not yet set. Sunset was beautiful.
By about 10 p.m. the sky has cleared, although the transparency is definitely not great - there is a general murkiness.
We're working on the "Starlight, Starbright" observing program. Here are the objects I've been observing:
-NGC 2784 spiral galaxy
-NGC 2859 spiral galaxy
-NGC 3109 irregular galaxy (this one looks quite different from the typical galaxy - almost more like a long rectangular nebula!)
-NGC 3115 (Caldwell 53, The Spindle Galaxy)
-I just observed a gigantic green fireball meteor! The whole crowd at TSP was cheering and clapping, it was definitely the brightest one I've ever seen. Amazing!!!
At 0400 UTC, the sky quality measured a nice dark 21.65. Last night was 21.76.
-SIX galaxies in a single 26mm (115x) field of view! NGC 3308, NGC 3309, NGC 3311, NGC 3312, NGC 3314, NGC 3316 were all visible together. This was really exciting, there are more galaxies that are even fainter so I didn't try to identify them.
I'll upload this now and will continue in another posting. Can you tell I'm having a blast?
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