Janet and I camped at Fremont Pk "group" campgrounds. Arrived at about
5 pm. To our surprise there was only one other campsite taken. Not at
all what I expected. I did some observing from an empty SW parking
lot with a 10" f5.6 Newtonian, but another observer arrived, headlights
blazing, an hour after dark. Artificial light was an intermittent
problem thereafter. Early in the evening the transparency was good,
with a nice Milky way, but this deteriorated markedly after 11 pm on.
But I enjoyed very nice views of Mars. While I packed up at 1 am, my
neighbor beamed his powerful white flashlight into the sky and the smoke
was visible in the beam. I looked closely and there were many fine
particles (ash from the fires?) in the light beam.
RichardN22@No-Spam wrote:
> Did anyone go out observing last night (Friday)? How was it?
>
> Richard