04/25/2006 Starlight, Starbright

It's cooling down now, the temperature has dropped to about 47F. Continuing on with the observing log:
-NGC 3166 and NGC 3169 - both in the same field.
It's starting to get breezy.
WOW!!! Another bright green fireball just blazed across the sky, this one dropped towards the Northwest and went about 30-40 degrees before disappearing. Once again many cheers and clapping from lucky TSP participants were heard. Way Cool!
-NGC 3175, a long close to edge-on spiral
-NGC 3344, a very nice little face-on spiral
-NGC 3432, a rectangle shaped galaxy with a few stars near the corners (probably not part of the galaxy)
-NGC 3585 elliptical galaxy
Yikes, my scope just crashed with the dreaded "Proc. 2 Trap" error on the hand paddle. I rebooted and did a new polar alignment on Polaris and then Arcturus. Seems to be back in action but it makes me a bit nervous.
-Polaris
-Arcturus
-Praecipua (46 Leo Minor)
-NGC 3962 elliptical galaxy
-NGC 4105 spiral galaxy
-NGC 4106 spiral galaxy
-NGC 5061 elliptical galaxy
-NGC 5078 spiral galaxy
-NGC 5101 spiral galaxy
-NGC 5248 (Caldwell 45) spiral galaxy
There are large black "spokes" of clouds originating in the North and covering most of the sky right now. Not sure what that will mean for the rest of the night's session. It's about 1:00 a.m. so there is a lot of night left - hope it does not get clouded out.
-NGC 5253 spiral galaxy
-NGC 5102 elliptical galaxy
-NGC 5466 globular cluster
-NGC 5676 spiral galaxy
-NGC 5694 (Caldwell 66) globular cluster
-NGC 6503 spiral galaxy
That's it for "Starlight, Starbright" - I've observed all 25 of the objects on the list (plus a few extra) so tomorrow I'll turn in my log for an observing pin.
I'll post now and carry on - the sky has improved a bit again so not ready to quit yet.