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		<title>OR: GSSP 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[GSSP 2010 turned out to be a terrific star party, and I would like to start this report by personally thanking our hosts, the Albaugh family, as well as all the volunteers who made this event such a great success!
The conditions were good all 4 nights. The NELM hovered in the 6.8/7.0 range. Given the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.julienlecomte.net/blog/2010/07/526/</link>
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		<title>OR: D.A.R.C. Observatory, 6/12/2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few of us went to the D.A.R.C. observatory last night, including Robert Jardine (aka &#8220;Joe Bob&#8221;), Al Smith and his wife Annie, Al Howard, Eric Zbinden, Daniel Stefanescu, and of course Dr Lee Hoglan and Dr Bob Caton.
Before it turned dark, Bob Caton organized a short lecture on Kuiper belt objects, some of which [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.julienlecomte.net/blog/2010/06/519/</link>
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		<title>OR: Lake San Antonio, 5/11/2010, and Herschel 400</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I went to Lake San Antonio on Tuesday, May 11, in order to wrap up the Herschel 400 list, which I have been working on for almost a year and a half. I was missing 15 targets, all of them in Virgo. To make the night worth the trip, I added a few interesting targets [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.julienlecomte.net/blog/2010/05/515/</link>
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		<title>OR: April 6 and 8, 2010: Dinosaur Point and Lake San Antonio</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Tuesday, April 6, I joined Marko, Rogelio, Hans Schulze and Paul Duncan at Dinosaur Point for a night of observing. Conditions were decent with fairly calm winds, average transparency and seeing, temps in the mid to low 40s and low humidity. Dew was not a problem at all, and my paper charts remained mostly [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.julienlecomte.net/blog/2010/04/437/</link>
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		<title>OR: Deep Sky Ranch (Willow Springs), 3/13/10</title>
		<description><![CDATA[General
Mark Wagner, Richard Navarrete, Steve Gottlieb, Peter Natscher, Rogelio Bernal Andreo and I met with our host, Kevin Ritschel, at his ranch in Willow Springs on Saturday, March 13, 2010.
Conditions
By sunset, the wind had subsided. The transparency was about average. Seeing was a bit soft early on, but it improved to just about average later [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.julienlecomte.net/blog/2010/03/429/</link>
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		<title>OR: Dinosaur Point, 3/10/10</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Greg LaFlamme, George Feliz, Scott Baker, Rogelio Bernal Andreo, Al Howard and myself met up at Dinosaur Point last night. The transparency was just about average as predicted by the Clear Sky Clock. The seeing was quite soft early on, but it improved a bit to just about average as the night went on. The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.julienlecomte.net/blog/2010/03/423/</link>
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		<title>South Lake Tahoe</title>
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		<link>http://www.julienlecomte.net/blog/2010/02/418/</link>
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		<title>O’Reilly Book &#8220;High Performance JavaScript&#8221; Now Available For Preorder</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Last year, I was honored to be asked by Yahoo! engineer Nicholas Zakas whether I would be interested in contributing a chapter to an upcoming book about JavaScript performance. Well, after many months of hard labor by an impressive line up of talented engineers, this book, appropriately titled &#8220;High Performance JavaScript&#8221;, is now available for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.julienlecomte.net/blog/2010/02/404/</link>
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		<title>OR: Henry Coe State Park, 1/13/2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I decided to take advantage of a break in the weather and headed to Henry Coe state park. There, I found Jeff Weiss and Paul Duncan. Rogelio joined us a short while later, followed by Mark Johnston and his family. Even though it had rained the day before, the overflow parking lot was not as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.julienlecomte.net/blog/2010/01/400/</link>
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		<title>OR: D.A.R.C. Observatory, 11/21/2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After much consideration, I decided to head to the DARC observatory on Saturday night. It was a little bit of a gamble since the clear sky clock had forecast below average to average transparency, which usually means that wispy clouds would pass overhead, possibly ruining my chances of detecting the most subtle details on the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.julienlecomte.net/blog/2009/11/395/</link>
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