The Logbook

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The Logbook

• What you need to do

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A Logbook must

• Contain enough information for another person to
  repeat your observation
• Date
• Time
• Location
• Seeing
• Transparency
• Compass direction you were facing

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Seeing

• Astronomical turbulence causes blurring,
  twinkling, scintillation of star points
• Fair to OK in the city
• Good to WOW in the Pine Barrens

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Transparency

• Clearness of the sky
• Clear
• Fairly clear
• Partly cloudy
• Hazy
• overcast

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One observation per page

• The Orion Constellation

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Dollar-Store Composition Book

• You will use about 30 or 40 pages of the
  composition book

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