What a crowd up there! Reminds me of the old days. I was flanked by
Scott Baker and Mark Johnston and had Maria and her boyfriend directly
across. Next to her was Bo, a few others and Bob Jardine! We had Bud, Dan
Write, Jim Turley, Marek, Sarah and her boyfriend. Got a great view of
Jupiter through David Cooper's AP130 F/6, finally meeting him and getting a
view like that was definitely a highlight! I know I'm forgetting some
folks, sorry bout it, it was a great group, trust me:) I brought my new 12.5
f/5 out for second light and had a great time with it knocking off the eye
candies. I peeped on some some dimmies but mostly checked out the bright
stuff. I shared views, borrowed views and had a grand ole time! The greatest
highlight of the evening (besides jawing with pals) was again provided by
Dan Write. Globular clusters, nebula and galaxies are all fine and good but
seeing a spent rocket booster tumbling through space ranks among the
coolest! It looked like an elongate blinking star and it moved across the
f.o.v. pretty fast. I would have written up a description for my log book
but it wouldn't hold still long enough:) I pulled out of the lot at just
about 02:00, got home by 03:00, fell asleep by 03:02. Wife said I snored
like a lion;-) T.M.I.? Too bad ;-)
GML
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