RACOBS Sept. 10
A really nice crowd of 32 people showed up at BigWoods for RACOBS (Raleigh Astronomy Club Observing Session). Although the skies only partially cooperated, the humidity was low and the temperatures were very comfortable during the evening hours. Tonight’s crowd was made up of mostly visual observers with a couple of imagers mixed in. Lots of Dob type Newtonians were in use, with a few refractors, and several Schmidt-Cassegrains also. We were treated to some nice views of Jupiter with a shadow in transit. I heard several people mention that like me, they observed Jupiter, Uranus, and Neptune in addition to deep sky objects. I heard of a number of meteors being sighted. The clouds started covering most of the sky by 11:00, so a lot of people started packing up.
