[Chaos-l] Observing Tonight - Probably Not, But We'll See

[Robert Nielsen]

There is a Morehead Planetarium observing session tonight (the session for 
April) that actually occurs during the day!   They are gathering near the 
sundial at the planetarium to observe the partial solar eclipse that will 
occur this evening starting at around 5:30 PM and lasting until 
sunset.   Given the current cloud cover and predictions on the Clear Sky 
Clock, I'm expecting it won't be much of an observing session ... but if it 
happens to clear up at the right time and you can bring your telescope and 
solar filter to the planetarium, they would love to have us.

We (CHAOS) were planning on leaving from the planetarium's observing 
session and driving to the dark sky site tonight for our observing session 
... but given the cloud predictions, I don't think that is going to happen 
either.   I'll check around 4 PM and post something to the listserve either 
way.  But remember, if our observing session is rained (or clouded) out 
tonight, we will switch to Saturday night ... and at the moment, Saturday 
night looks pretty good.   I've spoken to the people who own the property, 
and they are happy to have us come up either tonight or Saturday night.  So 
expect something on the listserve today, and plan (tentatively) on joining 
us at ECHHS at 7 PM (later because of DST) for the drive up to our site 
Saturday night.

Robert Nielsen