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From: Louis Hlousek <louandchop@No-Spam>
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I'm really not that much into AP so I got tired of playing with the big scope which is AP only and went observing with my boss and his ATM 16" Dob last weekend. The mirror is excellent but the 20 year old coating was pretty bad. Even so, the sights down here nearly knocked my eyeballs out the back of my head. We went out into the desert about 30km out of town and not at any significant elevation. The crescent moon was still up and we looked at mars. Not bad but still pretty wobbly. Later in the evening I had the best view of Saturn I've ever had. Super crisp with bands in the rings and the Cassini division easily visible. Saw a band in the northern and southern hemisphere and a very thin ring shadow on the face. The Tarantula was amazingly 3D and detailed, and it's all the way in the LMC, which is rife with other cool nebula. There were gobs of great globulars. With Orion near the zenith, I also got my best view of the trapezium with 6 pointlike stars (didn't see
the 7th). Then of course there's Carina and the Homunculus ...holy mackerel! Last but not least, Virgo was rising (getting on 4AM) and galaxies were everywhere. We tried various filters (UHC, OIII) on the bright nebulae and preferred the filterless views in all cases. The skies were very dark but still not as dark and transparent as those I witnessed in southern NZ.
The 6+ hrs of observing just flew by.
As for the job, you think GLPs are cool? I'm working on the optics for the 589nm 50Watt 5 guide star system that will be used with the new, first ever, multi-conjugate adaptive optics system. The complexity of the things these guys are dreaming up and building is just totally nuts.
Lou
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