Hi Dana, Loved your reports: the ideal telescope for the conditions and travel needed. I was just thinking that with the really faint fuzzies that you report, those of us in damp, sky-glow climes keep grasping for more and more light which leads to bulkier machines that take longer to set up, harder to store and carry and often end up abandoned in sheds alongside the exercise machines and pottery wheels
I am heading back to simple viewing with a four minute set up and a wife that can be persuaded to turn off house-lights for an hour but is quite used to me returning after ten minutes from a cloud infested back yard.
Thank you for the 'Faint Fuzzy' link to Alvin Huey's detailed maps. You really love these dwarf galaxies and I loved that shot of the Carina Dwarf. With my fading eyesight I am quite happy to reach the Fornax Cluster and even glimpses of Fornax A. It has been many years since I have been found by Rose Fingered Dawn at my telescope and your endurance has to be commended.
Your dipping into astro physics and cosmology is stimulating for all who are forever amazed by the great dark night outside. Loved your thumbnail sketches and I long for that program for illustrating such simple but detailed charts for our club members.
Thanks for putting all that time and effort into recording and sharing such a spectacular seven nights of bliss ... what an understanding wife
Kind wishes, Eugene