RE: [APML]: sky conditions

["Brendan Kehoe" <brendan@iol.ie>]

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I haven't noticed any more glow in the skies here in Ireland. Back a month
or 2 the dust lanes were easily visible as soon as you'd come out from a
bright room. It really looked as good, if not better this year then last
year.

On one night I could see stars well past mag 6 and views were amazing in my
telescope as I saw some dark patches in M31 with my 4.5-inch at X20. Views
of it were spoiled in my 8.75-inch cause of the high (X50) magnification
which is the lowest I can get with a 25mm eyepiece. On that same night I
could easily see a shadow of a moon as X50 too - something I never saw
before. Jupiter appeared VERY clear @ 140X and saw the Cassini Division
easily at this.

Deep Sky objects leaped out through my eyepiece. So, no brightening of skies
here that I know of anyway.

P.S. Has anyone noticed a dark belt in Saturn's southern hemisphere? I can
easily see it a 140X and see it every clear night.

Clear Skies,
Brendan Kehoe,

http://members.xoom.com/astrobren for astronomy information.

E-Mail @ brendan@iol.ie











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> From: owner-astro-photo@nightsky.com
> [mailto:owner-astro-photo@nightsky.com]On Behalf Of Jerry Lodriguss
> Sent: 20 September 1998 08:23
> To: astro-photo@nightsky.com
> Subject: Re: [APML]: sky conditions
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> >It seems to me that the skies this year have had more high scattered
> >light than I remember in previous years, rendering the sky less
> >contrasty.  When there is a new moon it doesn't seem to be real dark
> >out, even in "dark" sites. Is it just me? Am I just being more picky now
> >than before? Has anyone else noticed this?
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> It's VERY probably just local environmental conditions and the weather,
> however the night time sky airglow does get brighter as we approach solar
> maximum.
>
> Jerry
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