----- Original Message -----
From: Rob Hawley
To: The Astronomy Connection
Sent: Sunday, April 06, 2003 3:37 PM
Subject: RE: [TAC] Pacheco star party
The Clear Sky clock pretty much had it nailed; Clear skies, not great transparency, lousy seeing. Maybe 10 scopes showed up.
We had some visitors that went around from scope to scope.
The main problem last night was the wind. The wind made it seem a lot colder than it actually was (it got down to only 39). The good news was the humidity was low so the evening did not end with dewy optics.
The moon set earlier this time then before so we were actually able to enjoy the dark sky aspect of the site. Some folks measured the visual magnitude as the high 5's or even 6. The light dome at the site is fairly low (maybe the first 10 degrees of sky) and affects from NW to east. Not as dark as LSA, but darker than Coe or Coyote. I can see why folks like Dino.
I would be eager to visit Dino during the next dark sky cycle.
Rob Hawley
-----Original Message-----
From: sf-bay-tac-bounces@No-Spam [mailto:sf-bay-tac-bounces@No-Spam]On Behalf Of RichardN22@No-Spam
Sent: Sunday, April 06, 2003 2:08 PM
To: sf-bay-tac@No-Spam
Subject: [TAC] Pacheco star party
How'd it go last night?
Richard