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served a 14.5 globular cluster in M-31 before they called it quits. All in all, a good time was had by all.
That about it from the Fort, Hope folks can make it in August.
David Jarinko--Here are 2 images of the comet Linear C\2001 A2. The first one is of the comet heading toward the sun. The -2 is of comet heading back out away from the sun.
Steve Gray--4th of July Martian Fireworks! We went to Rockwall to watch fireworks show. Where we were, the sky had the moon on the left, Mars in the middle, and the fireworks show on the right - a great evening. We didn't get home until 11:30, and the sky was so clear I just had to pull out the scope. Saw some nice dark areas in both hemispheres, but no polar caps.
Doug Christianson - Here are 2 pics from Mt. Wilson, Seyferts Sextet and Stephen's Quintet. These two images were completely new observing targets for me. They were taken with a Celestron 14 on a Paramount GT1100 Robotic mount with an Apogee AP7 ccd camera controlled by "the Sky" and imaged with "ccdsoft".
On 7/18, I hosted a backyard star party for a local youth group of about 15 kids in Arlington. We had a lesson on stars vs planets, star colors and magnitudes, constellations, open and globular clusters, planetary nebula, double stars like Alberio, and epsilon Lyra the double double. I had fun, I hope the kids did and remember something to tell their friends.
Bob Newman/Becky Nordeen--Got up at 4 AM Sunday morning 7/1, and sought out Comet Linear. It was located about 10 degrees due East of the bottom of the Circlet of Pisces -more NW than the published charts. This makes it quite high in the sky. From the FWAS Observatory, it was just above the sky glow from the Metroplex, much reduced due to the wee hours of the morning. Not able to distinguish any multiple fragments, but the comet was pretty bright, right at the edge, for this observer, of naked eye visibility. Observation was accomplished at 4:30 AM. I made the tail out to be 4 degrees but very faint.
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