[Chaos-l] Saturday night observing cancelled

[Richard McColman]

With predicted conditions looking pretty dreadful on through the evening, we are canceling tonight's 5:30 - 7:30 public Morehead/CHAOS observing session.  Hopefully next month's session will turn out better.  

Stay warm and dry tonight, everyone!

Take care & clear skies,

Richard McColman
Morehead Planetarium & Science Center




-----Original Message-----
>From: BOBI GALLAGHER <vega13705 at verizon.net>
>Sent: Dec 4, 2008 8:38 PM
>To: robertnielsen at nc.rr.com, Mickey Jo Sorrell <sorrell at email.unc.edu>, Chapel Hill Astronomical Observation Society <chaos-l at rtpnet.org>
>Subject: Re: [Chaos-l] Saturday night observing
>
>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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