Re: Fun with fog at Fremont Peak and Coe

Um, well please keep in mind what I said - I tend to go to Coe much more
often than to FP, mainly because on good nights sky quality doesn't seem
very different, and to me FP is a 1/2 hour longer drive. So *my*
probability of experiencing different conditions at Coe is higher than
at FP.

You should also get input from people who have been up at FP (and why
not, also Coe) much more often than I have. I just wouldn't want you to
jump into conclusions from one single experience from someone who hasn't
been doing this as long as many other people on this list have. I guess
that when the fog kicks in, both sites are great, and both can be risky.

Brad Whitehead wrote:
> 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
> <mailto: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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