Saturn rolled over poor pedestrian star!

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"Hey buddy! Did you get the license number of that planet ? " ^_^

Say, come to think about it, I think it was a Saturn SL that
did it in, David ;-)! Unfortunately, I was unable to get a
the license plate as the numbers and letters were all inverted
in my Dob :-(.

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"Hey buddy! Did you get the license number of that planet ? " ^_^

Hehe !

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Say, come to think about it, I think it was a Saturn SL that
did it in, David ;-)! Unfortunately, I was unable to get a
the license plate as the numbers and letters were all inverted
in my Dob :-(.

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"Hey buddy! Did you get the license number of that planet ? " ^_^

Thanks for the nice report, Ron. It sounds like your seeing improved
considerably after the clouds parted. And I think that's the first time
I've ever seen the word "regurgitate" used in an observing report (not
that there haven't been a lot of observing session where it *could* have
been included). Seriously, I love seeing a bit of emotional response
included in reports like this instead of "just the facts" as Sgt. Friday
used to say. It's what makes it all interesting.

For reference -- and a sneak preview just for s.a.a. -- I've posted a
drawing of Saturn at
http://www.mtwilson.edu/DavisSaturn.jpg
The drawing is by space artist Don Davis and was made using the 60-inch
telescope at Mt. Wilson Observatory. You can identify the features of
the A ring, including the appearance you mention -- "seems to be made
made up of "wires" packed together" -- which I've also noticed. I hope
you find it useful. The Encke Gap and Minima are visible, too, but not
well since conditions weren't that great. Seeing was fair to good (as
can be seen from the not-so-good digital photo below) but Don included
all the detail we were seeing at any time into one aggregate image (a
good example of the benefit of spending more time at the eyepiece before
rushing off to the next object). The sporadic moments of very good
seeing showed a lot of detail but they were short. Of course, it
wouldn't look like this if the seeing was perfect; it would be much
better. :-)

This drawing is posted with no commentary (except above) and will only
be in this temporary spot for a few days. I'm working on a page of
several drawings from Don (beginning with Mars near opposition) that
will go public in another week or two. I'll announce it here as soon as
the page is online.

Mike Simmons

Hello there Mike,

Thank you very much for your very kind words; I had to put some of
those astronomically obscene vocabulary to use ;-).

Good heavens, Mike! It's so incredible what a real artist could do.
I had to look at the drawing many times and if you hadn't told me it was
a drawing, I would have thought it was a photograph! Never in my
life have I seen such true-to-life astronomically drawing. Thank you
very much for a quick peek.

Ron B[ee]
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Thanks for the nice report, Ron. It sounds like your seeing improved
considerably after the clouds parted. And I think that's the first time
I've ever seen the word "regurgitate" used in an observing report (not
that there haven't been a lot of observing session where it *could* have
been included). Seriously, I love seeing a bit of emotional response
included in reports like this instead of "just the facts" as Sgt. Friday
used to say. It's what makes it all interesting.

For reference -- and a sneak preview just for s.a.a. -- I've posted a
drawing of Saturn at
http://www.mtwilson.edu/DavisSaturn.jpg
The drawing is by space artist Don Davis and was made using the 60-inch
telescope at Mt. Wilson Observatory. You can identify the features of
the A ring, including the appearance you mention -- "seems to be made
made up of "wires" packed together" -- which I've also noticed. I hope
you find it useful. The Encke Gap and Minima are visible, too, but not
well since conditions weren't that great. Seeing was fair to good (as
can be seen from the not-so-good digital photo below) but Don included
all the detail we were seeing at any time into one aggregate image (a
good example of the benefit of spending more time at the eyepiece before
rushing off to the next object). The sporadic moments of very good
seeing showed a lot of detail but they were short. Of course, it
wouldn't look like this if the seeing was perfect; it would be much
better. :-)

This drawing is posted with no commentary (except above) and will only
be in this temporary spot for a few days. I'm working on a page of
several drawings from Don (beginning with Mars near opposition) that
will go public in another week or two. I'll announce it here as soon as
the page is online.

Mike Simmons

"Ron B[ee]" wrote:

Good heavens, Mike! It's so incredible what a real artist could do.
I had to look at the drawing many times and if you hadn't told me it was
a drawing, I would have thought it was a photograph! Never in my
life have I seen such true-to-life astronomically drawing. Thank you
very much for a quick peek.

I should have included Don Davis' web site. There is some really great
stuff there. I think the new page of his 60-inch drawings will be very
well received.

http://www.donaldedavis.com

Mike Simmons

Fantastic report and drawing!

I was hit by a triple whammy right during the predicted 1st contact from
So. Florida: the older brother of the clouds I'd been dodging all night
showed up in the eastern sky; the wind freshened; and a train rolled
through!

Nevertheless, I did think that first contact happened before its
predicted time, although since I'm 45 miles north of Miami (the city of
predicted time), that might have been responsible. Or I could just be
bad at estimating this, through clouds and shaking optics!

Again, fantastic drawing. Thanks for the report!

Ben Kolstad

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Thanks...we were (and still are) totally clouded over in Chicagoland. Anyone
got a photo?

--Eric Martin