Archive for October 9th, 2009

I was briefly smitten…………

Friday, October 9th, 2009

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with this little guy- found him near where the telescope was set up early in the afternoon.

He was about the size of a quarter, and just about the cutest little critter I’ve seen in the desert.  When I was a kid I used to see them more often, but now not so much.

LCROSS impact

Friday, October 9th, 2009

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Visually I did not see anything, but I was recording video so possibly captured something on tape.

I will post more when I find that out.  In the meantime, this was my set up at the Albuquerque Astronomy Society’s site.  That glaring light coming off the tailgate of my truck is the Moon on a monitor.  It was very bright and moonlight illuminated the parking lot quite nicely.