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novbabies
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Reged: 06/05/05
Posts: 15678
Loc: Northern Georgia!
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...tonight might be spectacular. I'll have to go out and see  !!!
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Good Seeing!
Mark
Orion 12" XTi f/4.9
VERY old Edmund 6" f/8 reflector
Assorted binoculars
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gmacln
professor emeritus
Reged: 04/10/06
Posts: 689
Loc: Ontario, Canada
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Lucky! We're currently being hit with a snow storm - seems to be the norm around here. I haven't had the scope out in about a month and a half. 
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Gord
Webster D18 (soon...)
TeleVue140 #1033
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Jeff Young
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Reged: 08/04/05
Posts: 4115
Loc: Ireland
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Mark --
I just got back from a week of skiing in Colorado. Half the nights were clear, and the other half delivered fresh powder!
Sadly, it was -5 to -10°F on the clear nights (with the wind chill bringing it to -40 to -50!), so I didn't even get the scope out. About all I can say is Mars still looks red (naked-eye, through the codo window).
Back in Ireland for two nights now and it's nice and warm... and cloudy.
-- Jeff.
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Nikon 18x70s / UA Millennium Colorado:
Solarscope SF70 / TV Pronto / AP400QMD Coronado SolarMax40 DS / Bogen 055+3130
APM MC1610 / Tak FC-100 / AP1200GTO Tak Mewlon 250 / AP600EGTO
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MachMike
member
Reged: 12/08/07
Posts: 79
Loc: Colorado
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Jeff,
You are correct. Except us natives go out in that cold anyway. I froze my butt off last week but got the scope out and had a few good nights. Colorado doesn't have the most stable skies though.
I am glad to hear you had a good skiing trip. We had some "epic" powder while you were here.
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Nexstar CPC 800 XLT
OPT 2" 99% dielectric diagonal
Tele Vue 24mm Pan, 13mmN6, 9mmN6, 13mm ETHOS
Celestron 2x Ultima Barlow
1000 Oaks LP-2, and O-III Filters
Feather-Touch Focuser
20/10 eyesight
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Jeff Young
Post Laureate
Reged: 08/04/05
Posts: 4115
Loc: Ireland
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Mike --
Skiing is one thing (where I'm active), but I can't imagine sitting out in that weather.
All I can say is "brrrrrrrrr"....
Cheers,
-- Jeff
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Nikon 18x70s / UA Millennium Colorado:
Solarscope SF70 / TV Pronto / AP400QMD Coronado SolarMax40 DS / Bogen 055+3130
APM MC1610 / Tak FC-100 / AP1200GTO Tak Mewlon 250 / AP600EGTO
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loo27
professor emeritus
Reged: 09/30/04
Posts: 501
Loc: GA
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I went out on the 31st, mars literally looked white. I checked the CSC and the seeing was white - I've never seen seeing that bad on the CSC. However, it was clear as a bell, I could almost see the milky way.
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Cliff
C10-N/CG-5GT
Tomlin Industries 6" f/6 Newtonian
C4-R
50mm binos
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Tony Flanders
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Reged: 05/18/06
Posts: 3464
Loc: Cambridge, MA, USA
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Quote:
Skiing is one thing (where I'm active), but I can't imagine sitting out in that weather.
It's largely a matter of owning the right clothes. Traditional ski clothes don't even come close -- they're designed to look spiffy, not to keep you warm. And if they were warm enough for astronomy, they'd be too hot for skiing.
Look at pictures of Inuit (Eskimos) in traditional clothing. That's the look you should emulate -- a shapeless blob.
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Tony Flanders
First and foremost observing love: naked eye.
Second, binoculars.
Last but not least, telescopes.
And I sometimes dabble with cameras.
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