Observing Log for Mike Durkin 1/20/2013 about 8:00PM-1:00AM Locust Valley, NY Transparency: 9/10, Seeing 3/5 Temperature: about ?? degrees Equipment: Hutech modified Canon Rebel XT DSLR photometry of ε Aur, X Per, ρ Per, BU Gem, and α Ori. After crunching though the numbers it looks like BU Gem was too red. And it does look like if I really wanted to I could probably get B filter magnitudes as well. 1/19/2013 about 8:00PM-10:00PM Southold, NY Transparency: 7/10, Seeing 3/5 Temperature: about 45-50 degrees Equipment: 14 inch SCT I went out to Custer Observatory for a Celtic Harp performance. Bill C. "drafted" me to help with public outreach at the Susan Rose Observatory. I started looking at M42/M43, but then switched over to Jupiter which seemed to get a better response from people. Jupiter had 4 moons, all on one side of the planet. Bill and I also think that we saw the Great Red Spot, but it so, it looked rather pale. Multiple bands were also easily visible. After that I looked at star clusters M35 with 2158, and the Eskimo Nebula (NGC 2392). The nebula looked very small, but non-stellar as expected. I didn't really spend must time trying to see if I could pick up any fine details. 1/18/2013 about 11:45PM-2:00AM Locust Valley, NY Transparency: 6/10, Seeing 4/5 Temperature: about 25-35 degrees Equipment: 70mm Stellarvue refractor Observed variable stars W Ori, Z UMa, RS Per, R Per, RT Aur, and UU Aur. Other Log Entries <-- 2012  Jan   Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec  2014 -->