[Chaos-l] Saturday night observing

[Robert Nielsen]

Hey everyone,

I can't make it this Saturday ... I have a concert I'm going to (not 
where Michael is playing ... although I want to go to one of those this 
Christmas season).

Can anyone else attend from CHAOS?

By the way, Jayme and I went to help out an NC State graduate student 
that happened to stop by and talk to us at MASP this year.   It was a 
lot of fun for folks like Jayme and me that like to show the "wonders of 
the skies" to people who don't have a telescope themselves.   It was 
different this time ... usually Jayme and I go to elementary schools and 
scout campouts and public events ... but these were NC State students 
who were taking college-level astronomy courses, so they knew a little 
about what was going on and asked some decent questions.   Of course, 
the moon and Raleigh light pollution didn't let us show them the Veil 
Nebula or the galaxy clusters we were looking at during MASP, but they 
got to see globulars, nebulae (like M42), open clusters (like the 
Christmas Tree Cluster and the E.T. Cluster, which Letitia liked the 
best) , the crescent moon, and the even saw a planet (Uranus) through my 
scope.

And it wasn't even that cold!

Now ... if we could just pick a warmer couple of days for the Medoc 
Mountain mini star party ...

Robert

Mickey Jo Sorrell wrote:
>
> Clear skies permitting, Saturday night's observing session will 
> include TWO passes of the International Space Station AND a pass of 
> the NASA tool bag.
>
> I kid you not.
> Check out Heavens Above: http://heavens-above.com/
> and enter the local coordinates. You'll find the ISS and the tool bag 
> over Jordan Lake on Saturday evening.
>
> Please join us for the fun. 5:30 - 7:30 at Jordan Lake's Ebenezer 
> Church Recreation Area.
>
> And maybe, just maybe, all my children and grandchildren will be there 
> as well.
>
> Mickey
>