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[atomant]

Any brave soul willing to bear the cold, please join me on an observing session by southwest entrace to Adler.
Clear sky clock predicts very good conditions tonight.

Planning to bring the 10in light bucket.

Targets:
space shuttle and ISS?
wintry clusters
Grand Orion Nebula
winter Albireo
close out with Saturn rising...

Time: 7 - 10pm

[Chicago Astronomer - Astro Joe]

Bill,

Sorry I got your phone call too late, as I would have joined you Tuesday evening for some good solid cold weather observing. I might have even brought out the 8" dob I recently won, (more on that later).

What I did do this evening was to do a systematic exposure comparison with the new Powershot S3. I will do a complete post on the effort, but I started exposing Orion from ISO 80/f3.2/1" all the way to ISO 800/3.2/15"...and every exposure setting inbetween. The results are quite remarkable...

Let us know about your venture last evening.