Observing Log for Mike Durkin 9/21/2008 11:00AM-12:00 noon Locust Valley, NY about 60-70 degrees trans: 9/10, seeing: ?? Coronado Hydrogen Alpha PST Before I had to run off to an ALCON meeting, I tried to get in a little but of solar observing. I observers a couple of small faint prominences on top of the disk, and noticed a couple of dark featires on the disk, but nothing significant. 9/20/2008 8:00-9:30 Locust Valley, NY about 50 degrees trans: 6/10, seeing: 5/5 Celestron Ultima 8 with PEC Started out trying to use the 40mm(50x) 2 inch etepiece Rich H. lent me. I have to say that so far I like it. I didn't notice the astigmatism that I normally see with the 30mm Plossl eyepices that I have and I noticed quite a few starts when scanning the Cygnus region of the sky. I also started to try to take some astrophotos, but the dew started getting pretty bad. I only managed to get in a 30 second image of the area around Deneb and the North American Nebula. But that was only a test, so I didn't get any real details of the nebula. Even though dew was starting up, I could still make out quite a bit of Jupiter. Even though it was pretty close to the horizon the seeing was surpisingly good. I was able to make out details on the belts pretty well and was able to see 4 moon. No GRS however. I packed in early once the dew got too bad even and Jupter was getting even lower in the sky. Other Log Entries <-- 2007  Jan   Feb  Mar   Apr   May  Jun   Jul  Aug  Sep   Oct  Nov  Dec   2009 -->