Sunday 29th of August 2010 | Ann Tekatch
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“Clear skies? Must be full moon.” A sarcastic statement but all too true this week! Many of our members found the lure of clear summer skies and warm temperatures too tempting to resist last night and again tonight (Friday and Saturday).
The ISS passed overhead both evenings. Tonight the seeing was excellent and I had a great view of Jupiter through John’s “small but mighty” 80mm refractor. Kevin’s 10″ Dob. pulled in B86 and the adjacent globular cluster, NGC6520 and gave breathtaking views of M11, M22 and M15.
I tried taking some untracked, unguided photos of the Milky Way through Sagittarius.
Now, if we can only save some of these clear skies for new moon….
