Photo of some of us inside the observatory last night

Five of us made it out to observe. We observed, m45, the double cluster, the Wild Duck cluster, a few globular clusters including m13, the Orion nebula, Neptune, Uranus and Jupiter. We didn't stay out late enough to view the moon. We were able to view Jupiter at 110x through the binoculars, but it was so low and rising in the Eastern sky that it offered no more detail than 48 power provided in the Binocular telescope. James and I took a quick look at Jupiter which was still fairly low before we closed up the dome for the evening. We left around 1:30am. The sky was still nice and clear with some haze in the far east, but I was a bit tired from the days activities, so I closed up a little earlier than I might had I been more rested.

There was also a bit of discussion about radio astronomy and other topics. Mike was pointing out where we might put an antenna near the observatory if we wanted to setup a radio telescope kit to listen to Jupiter.

We also talked a bit about Astronomy At The Beach which is a public viewing event that will happen September 21 and 22, 2012 at Maple Beach in Kensington Metro Park hours for that viewing event is 6pm until midnight.

Below is a picture of four of us last night at HJRO.

(One of the visitors, James French wasn't in the frame when this photo was taken.)

Pictured below are Mike, Greg, Dan and Tim (sitting at the computer console).

The red lights we use to preserve night vision was the only light, other than the monitor that provided light.



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