[Chaos-l] [Medoc-mountain-men] PROGRAM MEDOC TOMORROW

[matted]

I'll be a last minute decision as well to see what the weather holds.
Honestly, it looks pretty poor, but I have the evening reserved for this if
there is a reasonable chance of observing.  Allen needs to schedule more
clear nights for these events :)  If things improve I could be out there by
about 6 - flights changed and my mother-in-law is coming in 4 hours later
than originally scheduled.  I probably will just bring my dob.  One item of
interest could be Toutatis - it's  moving pretty fast (S&T Dec 12 p 53) but
something interesting that may stick with the kids and adults alike.

I really like the astrophotography commercial as advertising for our hobby,
but my knee jerk reaction was "only if it were that easy" especially with
as many shooting stars and the clarity of the images he captured in the
video.  I did manage a few nice geminids yesterday.
http://www.astronomypowers.com/index.php/2012/12/14/viewing-the-geminids/.
My camera captured about 10 frames with shooting stars and I have a star
trail with a couple streaks in it.  I visually observed at least 20 or 30.
Although freezing cold, it was a wonderful evening.

-Matt









On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 9:10 PM, Robert Nielsen <robertnielsen at nc.rr.com>wrote:

> I will make the trip tomorrow, with my scopes and hot apple cider.  If
> people show up and we can show them something, great!   If not, I will
> enjoy myself at the fire!
>
> Other Robert
>
> On Dec 14, 2012, at 8:31 PM, <rfitzgerald1 at nc.rr.com> wrote:
>
> > Yeah it will now be a last-minute decision for me Allen given the
> forecast for Raleigh is 70% cloud cover and Enfield a solid 46%.  I think
> if I make the 3-hr RT I'll just bring my DSLR to demonstrate simple
> wide-field astrophotography and prove that stupid commercial on TV is
> Hollywood staged!  (you know, the boy/girl story where she enjoys the
> starry sky and moves away so the boy camps out and images with a DSLR to
> make a time-lapse all-sky video then he emails to her - ridiculous!
>  Reminds me of astroporn on the side of telescope boxes at BJ's warehouse
> tonight!  Cool commercial though!
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