February 27th & 28th
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| Comet Lulin Weekend February 27th & 28th |
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| The skies were to be clear-ish, the moon was very new, and the roads passable on Friday. This lead to a spontaneous trip to the lake to catch comet Lulin in the dark sky away from the city lights and random gunfire that is Milwaukee. This is a 1 minute exposure (55mm lens, F1.4, 400 ASA 35mm film) from a camera piggybacked on a 125 mm telescope taken from the shore of north western corner of the lake looking to the southeast (air temperature -10o F, Burrrr). The comet is just below the center of the picture next to a bright star (Regulus). See it? No? Wait this will help... | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| It's the greener one to the right in the circle. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Mostly sunny skies on Saturday morning revealed that the bottle rocket war forts have crossed the line from "damaged" to "ruins". | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| The only task left was to check the ice thickness. Mrs Nemo had the "honor" of punching the hole. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Success! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 21.5 inches of very solid water under about a foot of new snow. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| We'll be back in a week to survive one last trip this season to ski Brule, check the ice thickness and snow depth, wave good-bye to comet Lulin for another 1000 years, and curse the still broken water line to the bar. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||