Hey Michael,

Nice pic. That's what it looked like all weekend long. I was hoping to
get at least one fantastic view of it at some point during the weekend
at the OSP, but we had lots of smoke from the fires to contend with and
the small amount of quality skies kept me from blowing away my night
vision on it in favor of other much fainter objects.

Mark, Jane, Brad and I all went to the Shingletown Airport that
Wednesday night. It sounds like we had similar evenings. We had a ton
of thin high clouds making the seeing very soft and frustrating us till
we finally gave up just after midnight. From our vantage point, it
looked to be very cloudy up on Lassen, so I'm glad you were able to
salvage a little observing/imaging.

Clear Skies,
Jim





> -----Original Message-----
> From: Al Rocca [mailto:arocca@...]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2003 2:20 PM
> To: tac-shasta@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: RE: [tac-shasta] Mars last Wed. from Mt. Lassen
>
> Excellent! Nice Mars photo. Al
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Huster [mailto:mehuster@...]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2003 10:31 AM
> To: tac-shasta@yahoogroups.com; rhtastro@...
> Cc: Larry Polvogt; pvanderwerff@...
> Subject: [tac-shasta] Mars last Wed. from Mt. Lassen
>
>
> Last Wednesday I went up to the Bumpass Hell parking lot at Lassen
Natl
> Park. Others were dissuaded by the high cloud cover. I set up around
> 8:30 and waited. There were reasonably stable views of Mars through
the
> clouds. It was much better seeing than at Whiskeytown the previous
Sat.
>
>
> Finally at 10:00 the clouds thinned enough to get some good views. I
> took photos using a Nikon CoolPix 4300 afocal with a 15mm eyepiece and
> a 2.5x PowerMate. You can see some chromatic abberation in the first
> photo. I must have been off axis with the diagonal & PowerMate. I
> didn't see the abberation at the time. The second photo is with an 80A
> filter.
>
> Enjoy!
>
>
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