Re: MB wed night?

That would be 3 'yes' votes and one 'maybe' vote per our observing
intents on the web page.
I plan on looking at bright things and testing part of my setup till it
gets darker at midnight.
Montebello south should be workable to some extent even before midnight
for fairly bright objects.

Jeff wrote:
> Speaking of MB... Anyone going up this wed night?
>
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>> From: tac-bounces@No-Spam
>> [mailto:tac-bounces@No-Spam] On Behalf Of Rogelio
>> Bernal Andreo
>> Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 11:05 PM
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>> Subject: Re: [TAC] Fun with fog at Fremont Peak and Coe
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>>
>>> I have seen as described in an OR from this last week the
>>>
>> fog come up
>>
>>> and go down at the Peak but usually it is the end once it comes in.
>>>
>> My experience is limited, as I only started "going places" on December
>> 2007, but during that time I've been fogged up at Coe, MB and FP, and
>> sometimes seen the fog magically go down both at Coe and MB
>> (especially
>> at Coe), but never at FP. That might also be because for
>> every trip to
>> FP I usually take 8 to Coe and 4 to MB (!)
>>
>> Yesterday chatting with George Feliz and Marek Chianski up at
>> Montebello
>> (a night where a light layer of fog actually stayed below
>> MB), we talked
>> about the photo I took last August up at Montebello Road. It's a nice
>> image of somewhat what a "dark cloud night" may look from
>> above, except
>> that because of the 30 seconds exposure (and because I
>> "stretched" the
>> image to show the fog), the fog below actually looks MUCH brighter in
>> the photo - in reality, as most of you know, when the fog
>> layer is thick
>> and dense (as it was that night), your eyes won't see almost
>> any light,
>> just a beautiful and spooky dark blanket, and a sky packed with stars:
>>
>> http://deepskycolors.com/pics/astro/2008/08/08-23-2008_Moon_M4
>>
> 5_plain.jpg
>
>> Besides the fog all the way to the East Bay, you can see some
>> recognizable shapes there: Moon, Pleiades, a risign Orion, etc. The
>> top-right corner is deprived of stars because the image is a
>> mosaic, and
>> the mosaic didn't cover that area.
>>
>>
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