Astronomy trip: CANCELLED :(

tiger roach

Urban Bovine Knievel
Well I was pretty psyched to take the dob out to West Texas again later this month, but my astronomy partner ended up not being able to get out of work.

Plus the long-range forecast for those days is looking pretty iffy...

So Mrs. Roach and I are going to Vegas instead. :grin: (Got great rates, too!)

It is a bummer though, I was pretty stoked to finally track down the Horsehead... and I had a long list of other new objects all saved up... hopefully in the next couple of months I will get to make the shorter trip out to our club's dark-sky site while the winter stars are still up.
 
The six years I spent living in Idaho Falls provided me with a lifetime worth of incredible seeing (4700 feet elevation, low humidity, little outdoor lighting). I've been paying for it during the 27 years we've lived in the Bay Area -- home to perhaps the worst conditions for observing!
 
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