With the moon phase nearly third quarter and clear skies, I finally got a chance to do some observing this year.
Since it’s been almost five months since I’ve been out, and because I didn’t have an assistant, last night I headed to the more nearby Broemmelsiek Astronomy Park to set up. Turns out, so were nearly 200 Cub Scouts. So I was barely able to do any actual observing due to frequently stopping to answer questions.
However the real challenge for the observations was the wind. Gusts were
As a result of these two things, I only took
This result isn’t catastrophic. It just means I was looking down the wrong side of the quadrant arm to aim at objects and all the altitude reading I took needed to be subtracted from
Observations were two bright stars in Orion and then a few stars in Gemini which is well under-sampled in my data so far. Only a few of the stars in that constellation have I observed more than once or twice now and there’s still several notable stars I’m missing all together!
In processing the data, things looked reasonably good. However, I quickly noticed that all of the azimuth readings were high by
As always, the data can be found in the Google Sheet.