[Chaos-l] Great observing at Jordan Lake

[BOBI GALLAGHER]

I had a lot of fun at the Morehead observing in late July. Thanks a lot for 
having it.

Since you ask for suggestions ...

We had a great speaker at a recent CHAOS meeting (whose name I forget just 
now). She encouraged us to do more drawing of what we see.

I think that, if we can get folks who are new to observing to draw some of 
what they see in the sky, they would begin to "own" the sky. We could make 
up a template sheet with an area for drawing, a place at the bottom for 
date, time, place, which direction (SW, S, SE,  etc), altitude, seeing 
conditions, and scale. The rough scale could use the outstretched is about 
10 degrees approach.

As I write this, some problems occur to me ... too dark to draw? ... 
pencils? ...hard flat surface to write on?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mickey Jo Sorrell" <sorrell at email.unc.edu>
To: "Chapel Hill Astronomical Observation Society" <chaos-l at rtpnet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2007 3:01 PM
Subject: [Chaos-l] Great observing at Jordan Lake


>
> Saturday night was a lot of fun - especially thanks to all of you who
> turned out to help.
> Estimates of our attendance numbers range as high as 200. I asked a
> number of folks how they heard about the observing session and I got a
> different answer every time: WRAL, Independent, various websites,
> campground, friends, neighbors.
>
> I enjoyed myself, the weather was beautiful, the crowd most enthusiastic.
>
> If anyone has any suggestions for changes or improvement please don't
> hesitate to let me know.
>
> Thank you each and all.
>
> Mickey
>
> -- 
>
> Mickey Jo Sorrell
> Planetarium Educator
> Morehead Planetarium & Science Center
> CB #3480
> University of North Carolina
> Chapel Hill, NC  27599
> 919-962-3300
>
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