Texas Star Party 2012

November 5, 2013 at 8:02 pm | Posted in Observing Report | Leave a comment

The 2012 Texas Star Party was one for the history books.  Every night was observable and, for the most part, exceptionally so.  Every night was clear and dry with good transparency.  I thought the seeing was always good and occasionally excellent.  However, I find that I may not be the best at evaluating either transparency or seeing.  I didn’t hear complaints, though.  The Observing List challenges were, well challenging and, fun.  The fellowship was a wonderful as always.  Some personal observing highlights were: M38 that looks, to me, more like a Starfleet badge than a starfish;  jewel toned stars in M47; Markarians chain;  NGC6946, the fireworks galaxy; and NGC6543, with blue-green color.

Here are the observing notes and some of the sketches

 

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