[ATMoB-discuss] Suburban light pollution / last night's seeing

[mmotta at massmed.org]

I did not observe from my observatory
last night for two reasons:
1. high haze, not apparent just looking
up, but that scatters the existing light
pollution and brightens the sky.
2. windy, that causes poor seeing.
thus.. you just picked a bad night.

Mario

On Wed, 9 May 2007 10:41:44 -0400, "Dave
Snay" wrote:

> 
> I was out doing some astro-imaging last
> night and was struck by how bright
> the sky was compared to other recent
> nights. I don't have an explanation,
> but the sky's apparent darkness
> certainly does seem to change from
night
> to
> night.
> 
> ttfn,
> Dave
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: atmob-discuss-bounces at atmob.org
> [mailto:atmob-discuss-
> > bounces at atmob.org] On Behalf Of Bruce
> Wilson
> > Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2007 9:37 AM
> > To: ATMoB-discuss at atmob.org
> > Subject: [ATMoB-discuss] Suburban
> light pollution / last night's seeing
> > 
> > I'm relatively new to astronomy and
> was wondering if some of you more
> > experienced folks could offer some
> advice. I went out to the Weston
> > reservoir last night, hoping to see a
> few binocular objects (10 x 50 on a
> > tripod). I could see most, but not
> all, of the stars in the Little Dipper.
> > I
> > could identify most of the
> constellations in my planisphere and,
of
> > course,
> > Venus and Saturn. I was disappointed,
> however, that I could not see any of
> > the binocular objects such as M3 and
> others listed in
> >
>
http://www.skymaps.com/skymaps/tesmn0705.pdf
> > 
> > So here's my question: was the
problem
> suburban light pollution, poor
> > seeing, or both? Or was it my
> technique? Do I need to travel the 55
> > minutes
> > to the clubhouse to get darker skies,
> or was last night just poor seeing
> > (despite the lack of clouds and moon)
> and on another night I'll be able to
> > see plenty from Weston?
> > 
> > Suggestions? Thanks!
> > 
> > --
> > Bruce Wilson
> > 617 823 8041 (c)
> >
>
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