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All, We have a club meeting and observing session scheduled for Friday at the Experimental Forest outside Bangor. Rain/cloud date for the observing only is...
Just wanted to say Hi to everyone. It was a great meeting. The pictures of my scope projects are listed here. http://webpages.charter.net/kb4mxo/ Hope to see...
All, We have an observing session scheduled for Friday, June 23rd, at the Coulee Region Modelers flying field south of La Crosse. Rain/cloud date is Saturday....
Hi Steve, We had a few people last night. Red, Gordon, Bob and myself were there. Greg Zeller, a club member, came with his wife, her friend and daughter....
Great night tonight and very clear. Nice and cool also and very few bugs. Nice views of M13,Jupiter. Then back to the lawn chair and binos to just find things...
... binos ... I was out viewing the night of July 2,3 as well after the moon had pretty much gone down. Viewing was definitly better then it was a few days...
... that ... Just wanted to post a quick note here. I can recall a couple of times when fires out west had effected both sky color and seeing locally. Kind...
Hi All, I have a question for you all that no one seems to be able to answer.. Many times we all have done it,, looked at the Sun at sun set or sun rise. ...
Hi Joe I would do more testing... Find a day before sunset when you look at the sun and it is dim. Then look at Jupiter or the Moon and see if it looks dim...
... That probably would have to be through a scope i would think to be able to get enough light to read the moon or jupiter. ... This may be a reason,, but...
Hi Joe ... You can see the Moon without a scope and have seen Jupiter with binos. I think the Moon would be the best bet. It looks like a nice night to view....
That I couldn't say for sure,, but even if the sun was bright,, it's still never as bright as when it's high,, the amount of dimming is still HUGE even if...
Joe, Mike, and All: Did a google search on atmospheric extinction. The link below has a table of magnitudes of extinction vs. zenith magnitude. Itsays the Sun...
Hi Bob,, And Glad you found that,, so back to the original question,, if the sun is dimmed by 11 magnitudes,, how come i can watch the lagoon nebula set on...
The 2 most important things to know to try to answer this are: what is the limiting magnitude of your scope and what altitude are you last seeing the object...
Lots of great information. Thanks for looking up this information. Steve ... __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam?...
This is too funny,, I must have awesome eyes,, and i thought I was getting old eyes. since I can see a 17th magnitude object with my naked eyes.. Cool huh?...
Joe - I apologize for thinking that you meant you saw the Lagoon through a scope. I went back and reread your original post from Thursday, and it clearly says...
Hi Everyone I updated my mirror tester to the slitless tester and updated the LED to green super bright. The pics are listed below if anyone is interested. ...
No apology needed, ... dependsmon exact location. some is say 10 deg above "True' horizon,, because of a tree Hill etc. But at this one location it is as...
Hi, I don't know if you remember me and my daughter, but we were at last month's viewing with Renee and Greg. We wanted to attended the club meeting and join,...
... From: Robert Allen <allen.robe@...> Date: Jul 9, 2006 10:57 PM Subject: July LCAAS Newsletter La Crosse Area Astronomical Society P. O. Box 2041 La...
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