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Observation Log – July 30, 2010

Date: 7/30/2010 Time: 9:00 PM – 11:30 PM EDT Scope: Celestron C8 SGT-XLT Eye Pieces: 33mm SWAN, 22 Panoptic, 13mm Nagler Mount: Celestron Advance Series CG5 GOTO Location: Backyard, Suffolk, VA Weather: Warm, Few high thin clouds Seeing: 6 Transparency: 5 (4 after Moon rise at approx 10:30) Moon: Waning Gibbous Alignment Stars: Arcturus, Antares [...]

Saturn – First light (for me) of the C6 and 9mm Nagler

I have had my Side-by-Side Celestron 6″ and Astro-Tech 66m set up a couple of times over the last week or so hoping that the skies would clear. Finally last night – cooler temperatures and fairly low humidity – except for a few passing clouds it was nearly perfect visual observing. I spent sometime using [...]