Thanks for the advice Jamie.
Looks like 47 Tuc is a no-go (sob!) unless I take my 10X70's to the top of the tallest bldg. in San Jose, Costa Rica at 6:30 P.M. as it just starts to kiss the setting horizon. Hmmm! Maybe a new challenge! One of the most remarkable sights I ever did see was Omega Centarauri rising over the hills at the Texas Star Party. Looked like a glowing whatever the Irish call spooky apparitions! It's glow proceeded it for several minutes. Also, saw it once through a sucker hole in a homongous TSP thunder storm.
Dennis
Jamie Dillon <jamie_dillon@No-Spam> wrote:
>What must-see objects would most include on their short list? Tuc
>47, eta Carina nebula, tarantula nebula, omega centauri, LMC, SMC?
>What do the TACOS who been down South say?
My farthest trip south was to Huatulco at 16 north on the southern
tip of Mexico. Someone already said the other day that you're not
gonna see 47 Tuc from Costa Rica. In January, you're gonna see the
LMC transiting not long after sundown. The Tarantula is part of the
LMC. One of the things in the world I want most to see. The SMC is
much farther south, dunno if it shows from Costa Rica. Later at night
though, Carina and Crux and the southern parts of Centaurus will have
swung into view. Yes the Keyhole with eta Car in the middle of it.
The Southern Pleiades, IC 2602, oh the colors. Toward early morning
you can see Alpha Centauri come up. Watching that star come up out of
the ocean is something I will never forget.
Dennis, go get an atlas like the Edmund's Mag 6 and start looking and
fantasizing. Also ...
http://observers.org/reports/2003.11.21.html is Bob Czerwinski from
the Cook Islands.
In the TAC observing reports archives you have Steve Gottlieb and Rob
Hawley from the very place you're going.
Also there is the whole set of OR's Jay Freeman did from Mauna Kea,
also a fantastic read from probably the best writer on TAC.
Go ... go ... go read.
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