Observing Log for Mike Durkin
5/30/2011 about 9:30PM-11:30PM
Locust Valley, NY
Transparency: 7/10, Seeing 4/5
Temperature: about 70-80 degrees
Equipment: 127mm Mak, 10x50 binoculars
Once again a very humid evening. I didn't have too much time so I just tried
to observer a few stars for the AAVSO. I observerd: SS Vir, R Vir, Z UMa
and Y CVn.
5/28/2011 about 9:00PM-1:30AM
Locust Valley, NY
Transparency: 7/10, Seeing 4/5
Temperature: about 60-70 degrees
Equipment: 8 inch SCT, Imaging Source camera
It was a very humid night. Maybe a good night for some planetary imaging?
I set up my scope on Saturn and then showed it to Tom, Sean, and Sean's friend.
They all almost couldn't believe that it was real.
Then I used the Imaging Source camera to take a couple of videos of Saturn.
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Image of Saturn, monochrome. Telescope: Celestron Ultima 8 with 2x barlow lens Camera: Imaging source DMK 31AU03 about 400 images from a video file stacked using Registax 6. There are 2 bright spots on the top of the belt. Those are most likely the Northern Electrostatic Disturbance. |
Then I observered the following variable stars: Z Boo, RR Lib, W CrB and U Her.
While looking at some variable stars, I tried a quick look at M13. But it was at an odd angle, so I didn't really spend to much time trying to observe it.
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