7:58 PM, Friday 26 September 2014. Richard arrived. Set up in the GBO. Sported his new computer tent.
I put the front red lights on. For our late arrivals.
Thin Moon.
8:15 PM. Seabrooks. Saturn. Titan, Rhea, Saturn, Dione.
Sara and Nicole arrived.
8:39. Looked at 90 Her. I don't know. At 390 power. The diffraction rings were obvious.
8:49. 3mm in TV101. Maybe I can see it, I thought.
9:08. Peter showed me Caldwell 14 aka the Double Cluster in his Meade SCT. Never heard that classification. [ed: Sir Moore's catalogue.]
9:13. Offered my big Mamiya tripod to Genevieve. She wanted to do a time lapse of the Milky Way.
9:23. Landed at HR 7162 in Lyra. Looked like another tight double—in a busy field. ST3P said it was a sextuplet. But I was not really in the mood...
Helped Genevieve with shooting and focusing. With Vega. Her Canon Rebel does not have live view. So I didn't think the focusing mask would help. That I had brought especially for her. After all this time...
10:18. Nicole's flashlight was not working. From Sky-Watcher. Needed a tiny Phillips. Why would they do that?! Not quick to fix.
10:40. Spotted, briefly, the quasar HS 1626+6433. With Ian. Funny had an easier time seeing star J162639.3+642620 at mag 16.2.
Ian used his 21mm and 13mm in the C14. Good glass.
10:46. Viewed the Splinter in Draco. Thin. Edge on. That'd be a nice one, I thought, to image. Big (er, long) in the 55mm.
11:08. Talked about dew heaters on camera lenses. Complications, if one needed a decent 12 volt supply. Cheap solutions, like coffee cup warmers...
11:33. Set up an image run with Genevieve. Used my heater set up, the PC power supply unit (PSU), the 2" eyepiece dew heater.
Took SQM readings. In the 21s.
12:19 AM, Saturday 27 September 2014. Aurora? A glow to the north and north-east. Found an unused spare CAO camera tripod. Set up my camera in the parking lot. Captured frames. For a possible a time lapse.
12:30 AM. Humidity was 88%. Temp 14.1.
Viewed Hickson 93 in Pegasus. Did not keep good notes...
1:34. Aurora was getting brighter.
2:08. Wild. Dual satellites went through the Big Dipper. Very near the bottom-right star of the pot. Merak? [ed: Yes.] It would be in my photos... [ed: Eric helped me determine the objects, using CalSky. USA 238 and USA 238-B. US Navy Ocean Surveillance Satellites.]
2:10. Imaged from the deck. Brighter. Streaks. Nicole was very happy.
2:35. Finished aurora run.
2:41. Snapped Orion.
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3:08. In bed. Downstairs now. Orion room. Very tired. Despite sleeping in. I was sore. All the walking. And stairs. Yard work.
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