Friday, July 29, 2016
the taxi
Helped a car-less member get to the Carr Astronomical Observatory for the weekend. Often I leave at weird times but on this occasion it worked out. At least one way.
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- chatted with BGO
- showed BGO shots
- found same badge
- mini mini work party
- made a 2" occulting eyepiece
- checked the Azores skies
- fixed ocular
- extraordinary binary
- a bus and a taxi
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- still no images
- received another weather alert
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- we piped Geoff away
- sketched the bracket
- imaged a summer snowball (Halifax)
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- captured the Western Veil part 2 (Halifax)
- received all part 1 data
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- so long Geoff
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- council meeting next week
- captured the Western Veil part 1 (Halifax)
- imaged NGC 6781 again (Halifax)
- Arecibo may be closed
- proofed article
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- Google noted Juno
- imaged NGC 7027 (Halifax)
- imaged Barnard's Galaxy (Halifax)
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- imaged Messier 101 (Blue Mountains)
- captured a bubble (Halifax)
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- imaged fireflies to the west
- captured MCG 4-44-10 (Halifax)
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