The effects of rely morning dew on the lens.

Here's an early morning photo from Dexter. When this was taken dew had fallen on the lens of the camera, obscuring the image details.

It looks almost like it's been manipulated with paint, but it hasn't been manipulated.



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I had a grueling weekend with a lot of stargazing

I don't want to say how late I stayed out. But the stargazing at the observatory last Thursday, Friday night in Dexter and Saturday at Island Lake multi-club picnic took its toll. I was to tired to do any stargazing at home much less get out to the observatory.

Here's a poster example from a photo I took of my friend in his yard last week.




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Tonight I'll be at island lake

Here's a photo from last night. I stepped into the frame while the camera was taking a 30 second exposure.




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I finally saw the pleidies open star cluster this year

It's been a while since I saw this cluster. Nice to see it rise at the Dexter viewing location but it was nearly 3am when I noticed it being out.

So many bright stars it was difficult to find constellations. A pretty nice dark sky site compared to the urban setting.

3am might be a little late at the FAAC picnic viewing site tomorrow. I have a feeling it will be some time before m45 pleidies is visible for the observing or star parties.

I took to many pictures compared to what I thought I'd take out here and stayed out here too long. O decided to sleep on the couch out here and drive back tomorrow morning. At least the dew will clear off all the eypieces by sunrise. I had so much dew on stuff I left the caps off most of the eyepieces.

Time to snooze. . .




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Out at a darker sky location than Lincoln Park can offer

About four miles from peach mountain.




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No observing tonightsorry for the late

I'm out observing at a freinds house, sorry for the late post last night was fun. More on that later.


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Will open the observatory tonight at 10pm and maybe earlier

If I open it up early I'll put a post out here, but I doubt I'll be there in time for solar viewing today.

We had a faac executive board meeting and I was at that today and have a few errands to run.