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Not much luck on this dark visit
Hi mates & thanks for your replies. I guess the season is past for a good look at this feature. I could barely distinguish it this round, whereas in autumn when the LMC is rising high, the emission stands out much more brightly. As a sort of cross-check, I positioned myself to put the LMC just out of sight below a building roofline to see if I could still see the emission. It stood out more clearly, albeit still pretty wan. It was markedly fainter than the gegenschein this time, instead of being about the same brightness as it is in October. The gegenschein right now is centred about 5 degrees west of Spica and a fulsome large 10° x 12° ellipsoid.
There were a couple of cloudy nights in the week, so I read all the technical papers I'd brought along. Found some fascinating facts about the Magellanics that I'll write a report about & send you the link when it gets posted. There's a huge swod of stuff out there about the mess the Magellanics have made out of their marriage. It was like reading a astro-techie's idea of a scandalous divorce in one of those supermarket check-out stand newspapers.
More when I get to it.
=Dana
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