Southern Sentinel Observing Report

Mild, Very Clear with Exceptional Contrast. No Cloud

Limiting Magnitude 6.0, transparency 6/5, seeing 3/5

New Moon

13.1 Inch Dobsonian, TeleVue Paracorr & Eyepieces & Lumicon Filters

Went away with Michelle for the weekend at Pauanui beach. Conditions were excellent and looked good for a nights observing. This is the first observing session with the Dob for almost a year now due to my illness. Being away means no transport time and increases my chances of observing without being caught somewhere and having to travel home.

Tonight, I had the laptop set up with Skymap Pro v11. No finder and no Palm available so the Laptop was my only way of finding objects tonight.

No plan of attack in particular, just to get out under a dark sky is all that is planned tonight. Conditions look very good.

Stuck with the one eyepiece tonight to speed the observing along. The computer was quite accurate, but a little off towards the end of the night, possibly due to the lack of Southern Hemisphere alignment stars.

No descriptive logging conducted, just out looking in general tonight.

Lots of bright objects tonight, spent a good hour observing with Michelle and finished not too late so as to not wear myself out. Throughly enjoyed being out.