Bob Moler's Ephemeris Blog

Holey Cow! it was clear last night for the meteor watching event mentioned in my last post.  We were hosted by Grass River Natural Area naturalist Anne Drake and her assistant.   (Sorry I didn’t get his name.)  On the GTAS side were Richard Kuschell who helped arranged the event, Gary and Eileen Carlisle, Ron and Jan Uthe, and little ole me.

Ron, with the most portable telescope, a Meade 5″ Maksutov went out where the whole sky was visible on the dock on Grass River a quarter of a mile from the small meadow where most of the rest of us were.  The trail over there was mostly a boardwalk.  Anne lead groups out there.  His main problem out there was dewing of the corrector on the scope.

We also has Gary’s 8″ Celestron, my 11″ Dobsonian and the society’s 25″ big Dob all at the meadow.  We were able to view objects rather high in the sky due to the trees surrounding the meadow.

About 27 or so folks came out.  They saw the quite a few Perseid meteors and a number of the other wonders in the dark heavens.  The last of them left just after 11 p.m.  so we packed up and headed back.  By the time I got home at about quarter to one a.m. some fleecy clouds could be seen overhead.