[Peyton-observing] Public observing log (Feb 26)

[Xu HUANG]

Dear all:

Thanks for the excellent sessions all through the cold winter.
As spring is appearing, we still have several sessions need to be filled up
for the later spring and the summer.

Best wishes
Chelsea

The dates are

Apr23rd, 9:00 Brandon Johannes --
Apr30th, 9:00 Brandon  Johannes --

May28th, 10:00 Ai-Lei Chelsea --
Jun04th, 10:00 Ai-Lei Chelsea --

Jun 25+ 10:00   Renee  --      --
Jul 02+  10:00   Renee  --      --

Jul 23+ 10:00   Pete --  --
Jul 30+ 10:00   Pete --  --

Aug 20+ 9:00  Cole  Chelsea   --
Aug 27+           --        Chelsea  --




On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 11:49 PM, John A. Hoffman <jah5 at princeton.edu>wrote:

>  Dear all,
>
>  Tonight was a moderate night for observing. There were no clouds (good),
> it was cold (good?), however the seeing was a "2/5," according to the clear
> sky chart, and things seemed to be much blurrier than usual. We tried
> carefully adjusting the focus, changing the position of the eyepiece and
> changing the eyepiece itself, but that didn't seem to make the problems go
> away.
>
>  All slew buttons appear to work now :).
>
>  That being said, we were able to look at Jupiter, M81, M82, the "double
> triple," and more. There was a decent turnout, including a
> journalist+photographer, a local high school astronomy teacher, our very
> own Elisa Chisari, Johannes Rothe, Naoki Arakawa, and several other locals.
>
>  Elisa and I also gave a brief department tour (CMB/SDSS photos & The
> Rug) to the journalist and a few other attendees.
>
>  Sincerely,
> Renee, Semyeong & John
>
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