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Fall 2005/Winter 2006 DOWN HOME gumbo astronomy from Chaos Manor South! Uncle Rod Mollise’s Fall 2005 – Winter 2006 Volume 14, Issue 4+ “A Newsletter for the Truly Skywatch Outbound!” Number 79 (New Series) : <[email protected]> Luckily, we here in Mobile, Alabama Grand Post were spared the worst, not experiencing anything like the In this Issue: devastating winds and water visited Katrina upon our brothers and sisters just to the west of us. “Near miss” is more Issue! than bad enough when you’re talking a storm as huge and deadly 1 Letter from the Coast as Katrina, but Mobile was back to A Letter from the Gulf something resembling normalcy in a few weeks. There are there are still 2 Denkmeier Powerswitch Coast plenty of signs of Bitch Katrina’s passing even four months down the line, though, and plenty of people in 3 DAS User’s Guide Part II Dear Friends (“Howdy Y’all”): the coastal areas of the county are still hurting bad. Some of you may have been 4 In Praise of DSCs wondering what happened to The main thing standing in the way Skywatch. I’ll confess that my little of Skywatch? Uncle Rod earns the newsletter has developed a small largest part of his livelihood as an 5 Apogee 25x100s following over the years; with each engineer at Northrop Grumman Ship issue being read by several Systems in Pascagoula, Mississippi thousand amateurs during the time (no, unfortunately, astronomy Tsunami from Space it’s current. And I have gotten some writers don’t get paid like Stephen 6 Kings, so most of us must hustle “whatever happened to Skywatch” emails recently. Bottom line? It’s along doing day jobs). If you saw My Back Pages! been a wild ride for several months, any of the video of the aftermath of 7 the storm, you don’t have to be told starting on the morning when Hurricane Katrina came ashore on that Pascagoula and the shipyard Uncle Rod’s beloved Gulf Coast. were absolutely WRECKED. Much “WATERLOGGED BUT UNBOWED!” Skywatch 1207 Selma Street Mobile, AL 36604 U.S.A. of your old Uncle’s time has been there, too. There are no lights here “Well, what the hell. I grabbed a pair spent helping his colleagues get in the Garden District, and I don’t of Burgess 15x70s and the Orion their homes back in order (where believe that anybody’s got lights StarBlast richfield Newtonian scope possible), and putting things back across most of the Mobile metro and headed for the backyard. Very together at work so we can proceed area (save those folks prescient carefully. As you can see from the with the testing of DDG 100, the enough to buy generators before the picture, out back was mostly mud Navy’s newest AEGIS Class storm). Perhaps you’ll forgive me, and downed tree limbs. Once I Destroyer (she took quite a then, if, in the midst of all this found a relatively clear spot, I pounding). What was it like trouble and suffering, I started looked up. What did I see? The immediately following Katrina’s thinking about the night sky.” Cygnus-Cepheus stretch of Milky passage? The following paragraphs Way just 'bout put my pore ol' were written not long after the winds “Heat is not something that bothers peepers out. I mean blazing, folks, finally died down… me too much. I’ve lived the balance preternaturally bright. TSP bright. of my life down here on the coast Maybe it was just my fevered brain’s “Dorothy and I are still at home and where summer nights are rarely imagination kickin’ into four-wheel- doing well. For the last two days I've cooler than 80F. Yes, we’ve got drive, or maybe the powerful winds been checking my email once a day, plenty of air-conditioning (two of Katrina did bore a hole in our nursing the laptop along to conserve massive heat pumps serve Chaos area’s usually hazy late-summer that power-hungry P4's waning Manor South), but I grew up mostly skies.” battery. Frankly, two days after the without it, and can still tolerate the storm, we've decided we’ve had occasional Mobile summer night ”Whatever. I spent the next several enough; decided to leave Chaos without it. To a certain point. hours traveling up and down the Manor South and the Garden “Toleration” involves an electric fan Milky Way in style. I could have District for at least a while. It's just or at least open windows. wrestled a C8 into the yard, but pain miserable in this heat --90F in Unfortunately, neither of those there was really no need to. Hell, the shade; don’t even ask about the things is currently an option. I’m not the little 4 inch StarBlast returned humidity. There’s no power. No going to waste the waning batteries views that reminded me of what a gasoline to be had save what’s in that power the PC and the radio for 12 inch can do from Prude Ranch the tanks of our vehicles. Grub? The a few hours of an inverter-run fan. on a good evenin’. For example, food is whatever’s still good as the Open windows? We’ve installed The North America Nebula was as refrigerator assumes room storm windows to keep the power prominent as I've ever seen it in a temperature, and those cans of bills down, and, apparently, four inch scope. Were those wisps Vienna sausage (pronounced vye- something has swollen in the the Pelican? Folks, this was without enna) and Chef Boyardee Rod laid- incredible humidity. I found there an OIII filter.” in as Katrina approached.” was ONE upstairs window that could be opened without doing “The scope view was nice, and the “Our minor discomfort is really major damage.” 15x70s delivered a 3D panorama of nothing, of course. It PALES in the celestial Swan, but almost more comparison to what our neighbors in “The night after Katrina I tried to impressive was the view with my Pascagoula, Ocean Springs, Biloxi, sleep. Tossed and turned, turned unaided eyes. What was that to the and, of course, New Orleans are and tossed. Just too gull-derned- northeast? The Double Cluster, suffering. We do have the consarned hot to doze off, even with looking as good without any optical opportunity to setup temporary the aid of a shot or three of Rebel aid as it does from any dark site, housekeeping at Dorothy’s office at Yell Whiskey. Decided I might as and—no lie—seeming to easily the University of South Alabama, well get up. What to do? Listen to compete with the 10x50 binoc views however, so, guilty as we might feel the same reports on the radio I’d I usually have from the suburbs. I doing so, it’s hard to resist the lure listed to all day (the media didn’t stayed with the magic sky until dawn of the air-conditioning, hot food, and know much more than we did began, and, with the rising Sun, it Internet connectivity that, we’re told anyway…for the most part we and began to resemble what I usually awaits us there.” they were cut off from what the see on an average night from my wider world was seeing of the backyard. With day, the friendly “What have the nights been like? devastation)? And I really couldn’t stars fled and depressing reality Long. Quiet. Very quiet indeed. bear to hear another word about returned.” Except for the passing of an how bad things were. Well, let’s occasional police or National Guard see. What happens after a major “The best description I've heard of vehicle, the streets are silent and hurricane? The power goes out. And the condition of our Gulf Coast deserted; a curfew is in effect from the cloudy skies usually clear came from a nurse who was trying dusk until dawn. Very dark out dramatically…” to treat patients with few resources 2 . Skywatch of ANY kind at her disposal: "We are Chiefland Star degree angle so you can view in now a third world country." comfort. There are plenty of Party with Only questions and controversies ”Experiencing post storm conditions, surrounding these seemingly simple even in relatively lightly damaged Two Eyepieces accessories: How important is Mobile (as such things go), leads Multiply Your Observing optical quality in diagonals? Do you me to reflect upon the INSANE need those new-fangled enhanced hubris of the people, who, in the Pleasure with Denkmeier coatings? Why would anybody in 50s, 60s, 70s, and even the 80s, Power X Switch her right mind pay 400 bucks for a proposed that the U.S. could survive diagonal to stick in the back of a (or win) a thermonuclear war. 1500 dollar Meade or Celestron Tonight, with only a relatively small Rod Mollise Cat? part of the nation devastated, men, women, and children are dying and Before I attempt to answer the the survivors, most of them, still And I could probably have done it above questions in my typical feeble haven’t received any aid of any kind. with one. No, you can’t have the rest and wrongheaded fashion, I should There are bodies floating in the of my collection of Naglers and say that this article is aimed mainly water, and, in the case of some Panoptics, but I’ll admit that, thanks at SCT owners. While diagonals are areas, we have no idea what the to the Denk “Power x Switch” an issue for refractor and MCT conditions are.
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