{"id":27455,"date":"2020-01-26T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-26T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=27455"},"modified":"2023-10-08T21:24:31","modified_gmt":"2023-10-09T07:24:31","slug":"a-starry-night-at-ka%ca%bbohe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=27455","title":{"rendered":"A Starry Night at Ka\u02bbohe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It was a busy night at Ka\u02bbohe, with well in excess of the ten people we are allowed without a permit. I am quite glad I did stop in our local DOFAW <\/a>office and get the needed permit.<\/p>\n\n\n

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A one day old crescent Moon set over Hual\u0101lai<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

After several weeks of storms the last week has been beautiful weather. A Saturday came I worried the spell of weather would not hold… It did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As we see so often there was an overcast sky on the side of the mauna when we arrived, a layer of clouds that dissipated shortly after sunset leaving a perfect sky for the remainder of the night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As we waited for the clouds to clear we set up gear, chatted, introduced folks that had not met, and watched a one day old crescent Moon set over Hual\u0101lai.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We had a bunch of Keck folks there, Josh and Harriet, John and Stephanie, Sky, Cliff, Andrew, Philip, and the whole crew Dave Kriege<\/a> brought along<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I brought out my 18″ Deep Violet for the night, best to enjoy a very dark sky and to hunt faint fuzzies in Monocerus and Orion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My observing list for the night was a collection of objects between 6 and 7 hours right ascension and +10 to -10 declination. I printed out a list of objects I had never observed in the area using my ObsList tool<\/a>. The area is in the winter Milky Way so this list is mostly open clusters and nebulae.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And observe we did… A great night. Clear and calm, a night for wandering amongst the galaxies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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NGC 2149<\/a> A small reflection nebula centered on a 12.7 magnitude star, about 2′ across, faint, fading evenly away from the star

Sh2-282<\/a> An extraordinary field, very rich galactic starfield with a couple obvious faint and very rich clusters (NGC2262<\/a> and Collinder 110<\/a>) the area is rich in faint nebulae seen as dark and bright areas in the field<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NGC 2143<\/a> Large 10′, coarse, fully resolved, a clump of brighter 9-11 magnitude stars in a right starfield, centered on a half dozen brighter members<\/p>\nAndrew Cooper, 26 Jan 2023<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Just one of the idyllic nights Ka\u02bbohe can supply for an amateur astronomer. I really need to get up here more often.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It was a busy night at Ka\u02bbohe, with well in excess of the ten people we are allowed without a permit. I am quite glad I did stop in our local DOFAW office and get the needed permit. After several weeks of storms the last week has been beautiful weather. A Saturday came I worried … Continue reading “A Starry Night at Ka\u02bbohe”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27455"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27455"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29690,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27455\/revisions\/29690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}