[Chaos-l] Observing With The Morehead Planetarium Saturday Night

[Joshua Haislip]

You most certainly did accomplish both Robert.  I sincerely thank you, and 
everyone else from CHAOS who goes out of their way to assist me at the 
skywatching sessions and to help spread astronomy to those who would 
otherwise never experience it.

Thank you all so very much!


Joshua Haislip

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Nielsen" <robertnielsen at nc.rr.com>
To: "Chapel Hill Astronomical Observation Society" <chaos-l at rtpnet.org>
Sent: Sunday, April 30, 2006 2:47 PM
Subject: [Chaos-l] Observing With The Morehead Planetarium Saturday Night


> Everyone,
>
> You might have looked out the window about 8 PM on Saturday, and
> thought the observing would be bad (with the large cloud bank
> approaching from the south), but it actually turned out pretty
> well!   I was there with my 10" LX200, the UNC folks (including Josh
> Haislip) brought their normal contingent of scopes, and there were
> three other scopes from people not associated with either CHAOS or MPSC.
>
> The night started out with everyone looking at Jupiter (which because
> it was so low in the eastern sky, was under the cloud bank).  By
> about 9:30. the sky overhead cleared up and scopes started showing
> Saturn (which looked better than Jupiter because it was overhead) and
> I started showing people more esoteric things, like M3 and M13
> (globulars) and M81 and M82 (galaxies).   Josh was explaining the
> constellations in the sky (mainly the Big Dipper and Leo) and there
> was a steady stream of complete neophytes who were fascinated that
> you could see the rings of Saturn and the moons of Jupiter!
>
> I helped some cub scouts get an astronomy (I think) belt loop by
> explaining how telescopes worked in general, and mine worked in
> particular.  I also talked to some of the other folks who brought
> scopes, and I think I convinced a couple of them to come to CHAOS
> meetings in the future.    With the cloud bank, and the light dome
> towards Durham, it wasn't the best observing night ... but that
> really wasn't the point.   This was meant to promote CHAOS and help
> the planetarium ... and I think we accomplished both!
>
> Next month, come out with me and help people get interested in astronomy!
>
> Robert Nielsen
>
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