It's been a good evening. The sky stayed mostly clear... perhaps clearer than the first night. I got some good data in blue and red of Bernard's Merope Nebula in the Pleiades. I also got to take a shower which was phenom! Later in the evening, I had an opportunity to take more images of the reflection nebula, however; the Pleiades were too far north for the telescope to reach. If I had been able to get telescope time just a half hour earlier, I would have been able to take more data. Phooey. Oh well, DA says that he has something fun for me to take a look at (yes, yes, ending sentence w/ a preposition, my bad).
The somethings fun were two galaxies. M87, the large elliptical in Virgo with the jet, and the Needle galaxy in color. I ran the last two images of the night. It was sad to close her up for the ninth time, knowing that I may never see or use that telescope again. My trips to the Kuiper have all be memorable and exciting. I hope everyone else has been able to appreciate this experience as much as I have.
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
End of the Night : (
Unfortunately, we are coming to the end of our last observational night. It's flying by! I'm so happy we get to image our objects for another time. Now I have three sets of images in all three filters. The final stacked image will look amazing (hopefully!). It's been fun stargazing on the catwalk with everyone and it's kinda sad it's coming to an end.
Cuddle Bunny
Tonight is our last night using the telescope, which makes it a sad night. However, the night was very clear and we were able to see all of our objects really good. We also spent a lot of time (Isa, Erin, Adam and I) out on the catwalk looking at the stars. We noticed that every time we sit on the catwalk for a while we get WAFFLE BUTT because of the spacing in the floor up there. When WAFFLE BUTT gets too bad you have to get up and do a few laps. So this time we brought up a sleeping bag to sit on and WAFFLE BUTT stood no change against that :). We have also separated into cuddle buddies while we are looking at the stars Erin and Adam are the more lame of the cuddle buddies and like usual Isa and I are the best, which is why we are called the cuddle bunnies hahaha. Also when we were looking at stars professor Arion walked down below us and when we asked if it was a bear he replied, " RAWR!!!!". That was the closest we got to seeing a bear on the trip. We also made up a game where we could find our own constellations. We found some pretty cool stuff such as Erin's boat called the "S.S. Martin", Isa's "Deer", and the one that I found which was called "ADAM"!!!!!! The night is going by fast so now im going to image my object which is ngc2068 in a third color so i can get a better stacked image of it. It has been a very successful and exciting trip!!!
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