Off the Beaten Path - April (Deep Sky Challenges)

Steve Gottlieb (sgottlieb@No-Spam)
Thu, 30 Mar 1999 21:23:29 -0800

In a message dated 3/30/00, Mike J. Shade writes:

> 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%).

Yep, north is up as expected. You should have fun with the NGC 3158 group
with the 22".

Steve Gottlieb
Adventures in Deep Space NGC/IC Project
http://redshift.home.pipeline.com/ http://www.ngcic.org/


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