Walter's LogBook
	Mon/Tue, August 13/14, 2001

Last night (Sun/Mon) was clear, but quite hazy (thin cirrus was seen over most of the sky just before sunset) so I didn't do any imaging. Tonight the sky cleared around sunset, but I kept seeing flashes. In the southeast there was the best display of lightning in a cloud bank that I have ever seen! Fortunately it didn't seem to get any closer!

The temperature stayed at 20C tonight and it was breezy. I set up as big a windbreak as I could, but only one-third of the images I took were usable. I took more frames on NGC 7048 tonight. At 12:45 cloud moved in from the east (!) and covered NGC 7048 at 01:00.

Below is an example of a windblown frame and also the latest version of NGC 7048.

NGC 7048	½ minute (1 x 30s)
A windblown NGC 7048 frame!

NGC 7048	76 minutes (152 x 30s)
Scope: 10" f/6.3 LX200 | Camera: "B" chip MX5C. Sum of 46 frames from July 26/27, 50 frames from July 27/28, and 56 frames from tonight. Combined with RegiStar.