[Peyton-observing] Student event successful; more observing later tonight

[Gaspar Bakos]

Hi all,

Couple of notes.

I requested dimming the parking lot lights (Lot 14), opposite to Peyton
hall.
This went well, and the sky was visibly better from the roof.

Finder scope: it will be hard to clean, as -- I think -- it has been burnt
by accidental (?) pointing at the Sun. The cheap plastic eyepiece is burnt
in the inside. We will need a new finder scope.

Morning sky:
you may as well try  Comet C2013 Catalina:
http://www.aerith.net/comet/catalog/2013US10/2013US10.html
If it is well visible, please let me know.

Best wishes,
Gaspar



On Sat, Dec 5, 2015 at 11:00 PM, Christopher J. White <cjwhite at princeton.edu
> wrote:

> John, Joshua, and I hosted observing tonight for the Muslim Students'
> Association. It was hard to count people going in and out, but I guess
> 25-50 showed up. Clear skies, stadium lights were off by the time we
> started.
>
> We started with Albireo just before it set -- a bit blurry over the roof.
> Then onto the winter sky, with the Pleiades, Andromeda, the Double Cluster,
> and of course Orion. Seeing was better for these. We also caught Uranus --
> clearly a disk, but a bit nondescript to the untrained eye.
>
> Did we get the finder scope cleaned? It still feels a bit dim (hard to see
> the nebulosity in the Pleiades).
>
> Finally, because I'm tired of not seeing planets, and because I am
> equipped with a dome key, and because I don't sleep at night anyway, I'm
> planning on heading back tonight, starting at ~2:30 or so, to look at
> Jupiter and maybe Mars/Moon. People are welcome to join, but ping me before
> in case this plan changes.
>
> Chris
>
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