Trip up to Kuiper

Today is the last day we have up here at the Kuiper Observatory. The trip up and past two days here have been incredible. I would never have guessed that a northwoods atmosphere would exist in Arizona. Yesterday we visited the small town of Summerhaven. Go there if you want some really good fudge. The planetary nebulae we have been observing are extremely cool. Unfortunately last night had large amounts of haze at around 11 pm and that persisted throughout the night, forcing us to stop observing early. Hopefully tonight will be better and we will be able to get more images. The clear skys we had yesterday were devoted to looking at objects we wanted to see. I choose the Trapezium, a small cluster of stars that form a trapezoid shape deep in the Orion Nebula. Tonight we will be getting some time to take more images of our chosen objects and I hope to get images in the other two filters. If so I will be able to put together a full image for display. The weather reports call for clearer skies so hoping for the best.