We had more fun at the Buehler Observatory. Students came to the observatory from different classes: AST 1002, AST 1004 and AST 1022L. On Tuesday (1/31/2012) night we had a limited night as rain invaded the observatory pad. We did observe the Moon and two planets: Jupiter and Venus. People seemed to enjoy their views of these objects. And it seemed on Wednesday (2/1/201) for a time that we would have a repeat of rain; but the clouds parted and we were able to observe for a longer time. Here is a collection of images from both myself and the students. The images were exposed using a FujiFilm Finepix J20 unless otherwise indicated.
These images were all obtained on 2/1/2012. Both the Moon and Venus were in the gibbous phase. And both Mars and Venus were close to the horizon thus the problem with seeing. We had fun and if you attended any of the sessions and have observations, please post them in the comments of either post. Thank you in advance for your posts.
Professor Howard Astronomy Musings 