--- "Rich N." <RNAPO@No-Spam> wrote:
> I don't think any of us saw the Crab. While we were looking through
> the
> clouds there was a glow around Saturn but I'm sure it wasn't the
> Crab.
I saw the same thing with my NP101 at 60x. It was a roughly circular,
irregular glow, about the size that the Crab should be, but way too
bright. After discussing with a couple of others, I concluded it was
atmospheric/moisture scattering.
> I should have tried the
> Crab later when the sky was clear by moving Saturn out of the field.
I did try that, when Saturn was nearly overhead and the sky was much
better. The only difference was a slightly smaller glow pattern around
Saturn, which I guess proves that it wasn't the Crab, unless it shrunk
by about 50% in those four hours! I guess there was still too much
moisture.
...
Someone else mentioned in another message that the seeing was poor or
fair. Actually, it was quite good early on. I was getting very nice
splits of multiple stars while waiting for the sky to clear. Monster
clean splits of Rigel, Castor, Polaris, and a few others, mostly at
300X. Later on, the seeing did degrade significantly, almost exactly
inversely correlated with the clearing sky. By the time Jupiter was up
high enough to be worth a look, the seeing was mediocre.
Bob J.
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