[Chaos-l] Saturday night observing

[BOBI GALLAGHER]

I plan to go Saturday with my 'lil 120 mm short tube refractor. (unless the 
weather gets too snotty.)

One gets a fine view of the moon and pretty good view of some brighter Ms.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Nielsen" <robertnielsen at nc.rr.com>
To: "Mickey Jo Sorrell" <sorrell at email.unc.edu>; "Chapel Hill Astronomical 
Observation Society" <chaos-l at rtpnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2008 1:28 PM
Subject: Re: [Chaos-l] Saturday night observing


> 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
>>
>
>
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