Re: OR. Willow Springs 6-26-09

You know that the moon is a fascinating world to explore ;) Really. With a
big scope and some neutral density filters, you can get some marvelous
resolution. Get the LAC lunar charts to get down to the nitty gritty
details of surface features. Rukl's doesn't have that much detail and is
geared towards very small scopes. You'll need to use a computer though
(these charts are too large to print)... but what the heck, the moon is out!

And as far as lists go.... I whole heartedly agree with you. I still have
the lists, but I have three of them... a never ending project I'll never
finish. Every time I'm out, I do at least a few of them and then go have
fun returning to other beautiful deep sky wonders. It's sort of like
returning to Yosemite. I'll never tire of that either.

When I'm with friends, I do enjoy the interaction at looking at anything of
interest, dim or bright. There's always much to share and that's what's fun
with observing together.

Michelle

On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 8:03 AM, Greg LaFlamme <greg.laflamme@No-Spam>wrote:

> Having two nights at Plettstone last week was a great start to a
> June "new moon" object round-up. To send this moon cycle out with a bang,
> Albert Highe and myself met up with Kevin Ritschel of DSR fame. Conditions
> were very nice, not too hot during the day, not too cold at night ( 90/50 )
> ? We didn't wait for that crescent moon to set before we were picking off
> galaxies.
>

.......

>
>
> I am now done with lists. Not because I'm angry with them, just because
> a have about 2000 observations logged and have satisfied my goal. I'll
> always have my favorites list with me. I'm addicted to eye-candy and am not
> ashamed of it. Its why I built a 22" scope in the first place. Now I plan to
> use Urano Metria and DSS sheets. This will increase my speed and
> effectiveness at the eyepiece and give me more objects-per-gallon of gas.
> For the last three years, I've been underlining objects in Urano as I go so
> there should be little overlap.
>
>

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