{"id":29686,"date":"2023-10-09T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-09T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=29686"},"modified":"2023-10-13T16:53:35","modified_gmt":"2023-10-14T02:53:35","slug":"a-solo-night-at-ka%ca%bbohe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=29686","title":{"rendered":"A Solo Night at Ka\u02bbohe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A dark clear night at Ka\u02bbohe, just the thing I needed. A telescope… A dark sky.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The start of a dark night at Ka’ohe on the side of Mauna Kea<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

There had been plans of a few friends from work, but with a virus rampaging through the crew a social event did not seem like a great idea. Will have to do the invitations another time. This evening would be a solo run.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No big production… Toss the gear in the vehicle… The Nexstar 11″ ‘scope, a few munchies and a thermos of hot tea, a table, a notebook, and go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The night was nearly perfect, no wind, not all that cold, a few wisps of cloud that dissipated after sunset.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I would work the southern horizon this night, as low as I can go from 20\u00b0N latitude. From the Ka\u02bbohe site due south is right over the summit of Mauna Loa. Just above the shadowy outline of the caldera I would catch stars and galaxies as they transited. Constellations unknown and inaccessible to northern observers… Pavo, Grus, and Phoenix. Some of the objects I observed were in the lower -60\u00b0 declinations…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u03c62 Pav<\/a> Pale yellow, no companion noted, \u03c61 Pav<\/a> is visible 33′ west

NGC 7582<\/a> Bright and obvious, extended 5′ x 2′ northwest-southeast, brighter to the center without a notable core, NGC 7590<\/a> and NGC 7599<\/a> visible 10′ northeast, NGC 7552<\/a> visible 28′ southwest, the Grus Quartet makes an entrancing field with four bright galaxies

NGC 45<\/a> Quite faint and diffuse, difficult, about 5′ diameter, a slight brightening to the center, a 10th magnitude star in the southeast quadrant, the 7th magnitude star HD 941 is about 5′ southwest

NGC 7155<\/a> Small, faint, round with a stellar core, at the center of an east-west 15′ arc of 11th to 12th magnitude stars<\/p>\nAndrew Cooper, 7 Oct 2023<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

A good night out with a telescope, packing it in about midnight as to not totally wreck my sleep pattern. Still, I got in five hours of observing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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