April 2010

pick up the signals and quarrel with God ... goto

last few days of vacation and a few days of clear skies, or so say the weather ... and then we go home full of anticipation .. Saturday, April 3, 2010

The webcam that I use for driving left me yesterday, it took an afternoon and evening to identify which is the contact jumped at the end .. I found the pin oxidized, but without my welder low cost guidance system is irrevocably compromised ...
Just this morning I was told that I can not change the reflex for at least a month ... I take I scored the divine mountains and everything to do a bit of observation,
are about 21 .. too windy to consider using the eq2 ... everything you need to prepare my impromptu session .. list of objects to be observed, tripod mount, power cord, coffee table, pc, polar alignment and the approximate 130 ... alignment .. first star 3-star hair and seems ready .. the point, second star Phad .. .. and a bit absurd to goto ... .. AGAIN happens first and second stable Dubhe Pollux nothing to do .. the position at which point the first object is not the right one .. go to the second is the mirror ... I remove the telescope and I do a rotation axis AR .. nothing to do .. now .. are nervous 22:30 I go to dinner .. wing back position and hopeless am referring to the procedure .. 1) Capella, 2) Mizar 3) Pollux and all is well .... the calibration the goto lost me 1 hour and a half, and he had the satisfaction of finding an object " comfortable, but little satisfaction to say ( CSI, form and substance ), but the top speed is useful when you have little time ...
forget that I had made the list and choose the items ..
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will use throughout the evening 52 magnification.
M35 beautiful occupies the whole eye is useless to count the stars are too many ...
NGC 2392 the eskimo .. I can not force the enlargements I miss the culare right and then there's too much wind .. you feel the difference in brightness between the core and the periphery weaker. We jump into a bear ... more
quick refresher on the M81 and M82, M97 and M108, for the record of the owl's eyes are still a dream of mine ... Place
M109 Phad taking out the eyepiece and there it stands a nucleus not round, but stretched
M106, which comes with its well-defined oval nucleus, M94 a halo nucleus with very bright, M63 to relate to very carefully did not show ... very interesting M51 shows the system of two interacting galaxies, although without any detail ..,
Then of course instead of continuing to M101 jump on the M3 globular nice wad perhaps solved the outskirts .. M53 in Coma Berenices, instead is a stain round ...
M64 usually blue halo and then pass to the most spectacular jump in the sky ... M60 and then up to M85 the transition from one to another may sound obvious, confusing the galaxies that will probably meet me I lose some, but the vision of all these bluish halos so well prepared and which distinguish only the shape and orientation, it makes me forget the cold wind that I look like a contortionist standing on a chair. Also traces the path down ..
then jump to the triplet lion .. M65, M66 and NGC 3628 you see all three as usual we see means that you can see the core and the orientation .. A little more here in the NGC3593 also
Now jump towards the M95 group , M96, M105 , but the visit is short for return back to the hair of Berenice .. what else to look up at the end of the evening ...