Wednesday, July 02, 2008

Light polluted astronomy

I did it again - I fell asleep in bed reading a book and then awoke around midnight to discover the sky was clear and full of stars. What a great night with the astronomy binocular! To all my friends out west who pity me for lack of a good sky, just want you to know that I am still able to some binocular astronomy, here in the light polluted city. Just a matter of selecting objects that are available, even under conditions of heavy light pollution. Open star clusters and double stars have been my mainstay deep-sky objects for binoculars, here in the Chicago suburbs. Had fun last night with both. Hope you all got out and did some astronomy, too.
 
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