[Chaos-l] More Observing Chances

[Michael Hrivnak]

I almost can't believe it myself, but my next free weekend isn't until August.  
At that point, the next new moon will be the weekend of the Almost Heaven Star 
Party, which I am planning to attend.

I would be happy to plan something for Saturday, August 15.  The moon will 
rise at 12:41am, and I'd be interested in staying another night or two as the 
moon rises about an hour later each night.

Michael

On Friday 10 April 2009 21:05:51 Robert Nielsen wrote:
> I know there has been a lot of discussion about various events that
> CHAOS may be involved in, such as "International Astronomy Day" and the
> upcoming outreach at the Boy Scout Camp in Moore County ...
>
> But the ranger from Pettigrew State Park e-mailed me, and asked we would
> be interested in rescheduling a public observing session there in May.
> I guess Michael and I didn't make enough of an impact!   Actually, the
> ranger (Doug LeQuire) knew that there were supposed to be a number of
> other amateur astronomers scheduled to attend, and the rain messed up
> our plans.   So he would like for us to try again.
>
> We don't have to do it in May, but Doug suggested the weekend of 5/22
> through 5/24 (Friday through Sunday) ... which is about the time of the
> new moon in May (on the 24th).  He also suggested the following weekend
> as the makeup date.   Unfortunately, I will not be in town *either* of
> those weekends!   Does anyone else want to head this up and attend
> either of those weekends?   I could go on the weekend of 5/15 through
> 5/17 (again, Friday through Sunday) and I tend to like the weekends
> before the new moon (where the moon rises after midnight) rather than
> the ones after the new moon (where you need to wait until the moon sets
> around midnight.   But if we schedule for then, there is no rain makeup
> the next weekend ... unless someone else steps up.
>
> Or we could delay a trip to Pettigrew until later in the year.   I was
> trying to schedule Pettigrew in the Spring, and MASP in the fall ... but
> there's nothing that says that is the only possibility.
>
> What does everyone think?  Anyone who was going before want to try again
> in May?
>
> Robert
>
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