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

matted matted27 at gmail.com
Sat Dec 15 16:20:15 EST 2012


Sorry, I'm going to bail.  At my house it is already 50% cloudy (with more
to the west)... Plus, I just got back from the airport and not even packed
up to head out.  As guilty as that will make me feel, I hope the clouds
hold off for a few hours!

-Matt



On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 2:56 PM, Robert Nielsen <robertnielsen at nc.rr.com>wrote:

> Yeah ... it looks great now, but that's what the CSC predicted.
> Unfortunately, the CSC also predicts increasing cloudiness over at Medoc.
> The question is "when will it arrive?"   The public program is over pretty
> early, so we might get to show them some stuff.
>
> Robert
>
>
> On Dec 15, 2012, at 1:22 PM, Mark Montazer <mark at montazer.org> wrote:
>
> I'm still debating on making the trip out. If the forecast doesn't improve
> i'll probably end up staying home.
>
> Mark
>  On Dec 14, 2012 11:23 PM, "Allen Davis" <starstorm151 at embarqmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> It is still amazing at what folks try to get away  with involving
>> astronomy etc.  still one of those areas about which so many are very
>> ignorant.  allen
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: rfitzgerald1 at nc.rr.com [mailto:rfitzgerald1 at nc.rr.com]
>> Sent: Friday, December 14, 2012 8:32 PM
>> To: Chapel Hill Astronomical Observation Society; North Carolina
>> Observers That Chase Photons In Medoc Mountain State Park; E. Allen Davis
>> Subject: Re: [Medoc-mountain-men] PROGRAM MEDOC TOMORROW
>>
>> 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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