Off the Beaten Path - April (Deep Sky Challenges)
Mike J. Shade (mshade@No-Spam)
Thu, 30 Mar 1999 21:11:17 -0700
For the associated images located at the web site. I would assume that N is
to the top? When the weather improves here, I'll go after them with the 22"
monster. Did pop Abell 2065 after sitting in the dark for 20 minutes or so.
At 463X (6mm VX LV), the field was awash with little dim fuzzy things.
However, they would come and go with variations in seeing. Transparency
last night was only a 6-humidity was up to 35%, dew point in the high 20s (I
have seen a dew point here in the negative range, with humidity of 8%).
Mike J. Shade: mshade@No-Spam
Sonoita Hills Observatory, Sonoita Arizona
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