Re: Fun with fog at Fremont Peak and Coe

Interesting, it's good to hear the fog perspectives. I was certainly
wondering if FP was the best place to go that night (I would have thought it
was due to elevation) and if it was worth sticking around after the fog had
rolled in a couple times to see if it might go away. Of course in the end
it was the dew on the telescope that had the final say. Maybe next time
I'll try henry coe instead of FP.

That's a great shot Rogelio.

Brad.

On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 11:04 PM, Rogelio Bernal Andreo <rba@No-Spam>wrote:

> 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_M45_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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