Back in the day this was one of my favorite threads on the Astronomy Magazine forums .
A lot of members posted their nightly observation sessions either that night or the following morning .
It was a pretty busy thread as many members posted regularly and many posted every night of the week .
What did you view ?
How were the seeing conditions and the transparency from your location ?
Did you set up only to find lousy seeing condition and tear everything down and put it all away ?
What magnifications and or filters did you use to get the best view ?
What was the temperature , wind and weather conditions like from your location or any other details of your viewing session that might be of interest ?
Did your dog run into your tripod and knock your alignment out ? Etc . Etc .
Post your nightly viewing experiences .
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Here is how my evenings are spent observing. I get outside every clear night.
Grab three pairs of binoculars to observe variable stars from 0.1 to 8.0 magnitude; 2x54, 8x42 & 25x100 Binoculars.
Pull out my observation logs and start recording my observations… Alf Ori (Betelgeuse), W Ori, BL Ori, T Mon, Zet Gem, Eps Aur, and others. This is an example of my BL Ori observing log:
This is the log from the Astronomical League observing program on Variable Stars. I’ve been using the same log sheets for 5 years now.
Then on Sundays, sit down at the computer and upload all the observations into the AAVSO Variable Star database.
See this post for more info:
Andrew
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