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RE: [Utah-astronomy] Utah County Eclipse
by Paul Witte 11 Jun '02

11 Jun '02

I must say I was suprised at how large the crowd was, I wasn't anticipating such a turnout! :) Here are some picts for those interested: http://www.uvaa.org/sunparty/ ---------- From: David Moulton Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2002 8:33 AM To: utah-astronomy(a)mailman.xmission.com Subject: [Utah-astronomy] Utah County Eclipse The Eclipse party at the Utah County Harmon's went well. I would guess around 300 showed up. They had been advertising it at the cash registers most of last week, along with it appearing in the Daily Herald (thanks to Paul). The store manager told me that there were 1300 cookies and 25 gallons of punch consumed. There were lots of 'ooos' and 'aaahs' that make it all worth it. I had my 9 1/4" SCT there, and Paul Witte had his ETX as well. Rich & Deb thankfully came with a naked eye filter or two. Someone, not in the club, was cutting up 5 1/4" floppies to look through. I wasn't too thrilled about that, but couldn't do much about it. Someone else I was not familiar with was projecting it with a small scope onto a small projector screen. Nobody seemed to notice that my scope was stopped down to a couple of inches with the filter, and so Paul's was bigger. I had to constantly tell folks to get in line for the other scope. Many of them didn't believe me that 'size doesn't matter'. I just happened to be looking through the scope when one of the spots emerged from the shadow. I did see a small white ring around it at the last moment. At first it looked as if the moon had a rather large mountain range I was unaware of. Lots of fun. I was still showing sunspots to stragglers for half an hour. dave _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list Utah-Astronomy(a)mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy

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Re: [Utah-astronomy] Utah County Eclipse
by bruce_glad2＠space.com 11 Jun '02

11 Jun '02

-Hi, that is cool, what, and how often did you meet? I thinking about bring my two telescopes some times and doing Power Point preset at ions other times or both at the same time. You thoughts on this thanks. I see how soon i can come up with the money with my job, and saving money and all... -Bruce Glad > Good luck with your club next year. I had a club > going at East High back in '75, great fun. > > You wrote: > > > Hey Chuck, what would be the best for your homemade > > mount? I have a pair of 8x50 binoculars do you think > > they would be good enough to want to use a mount? > > You bet! I use the parallelogram for everything from > my 8x40's up to my 15x70's. Had some 10x50's on there > just the other night. > > Any mount will give a steadier image for any > binocular, than hand-holding. > > If the binocular has a 1/4-20 tripod attachment on the > front of the hinge, you're all set. If not, you may > want to go to Gallenson's and see if they have a > replacement for your binocular. Coupla bucks, > according to Dave Dunn. > > Chuck > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup > http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com > > _______________________________________________ > Utah-Astronomy mailing list > Utah-Astronomy(a)mailman.xmission.com > http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy ___________________________________________________________________ Join the Space Program: Get FREE E-mail at http://www.space.com.

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Re: [Utah-astronomy] today's partial
by bruce_glad2＠space.com 11 Jun '02

11 Jun '02

while viewing the eclipse at Flat Iron Mesa park in sandy, I was amazed to see how many people were walking around oblivious to the partial eclipse. We did offer the welding glasses for people to look through at the partial eclipse, some people didn't even bother to look. I was astonished. -Bruce Glad ___________________________________________________________________ Join the Space Program: Get FREE E-mail at http://www.space.com.

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Eclipse
by David Dunn 11 Jun '02

11 Jun '02

Some of the OAS members came out to a barbeque at Doug Say's home in Farr West. Bob Tillotson had his refractor set up with a projection screen. This produced a real nice 5 or 6" image. The Sun Spots were real nice. I had my Bear 15 X 70s with Baader filters. I also followed Chuck's advice and mounted a large piece of cardboard on them to shield our faces. The binoculars work much better now that both objectives are looking the same direction. We also had eclipse glasses, a couple of cameras and the Big Ogden Bucket with Baader filters on them. We had a few of Doug's neighbors and couple of other people show up as well. We had a nice time discussing what was happening and viewing the eclipse. One of the misconceptions that I had to explain was turbulence at the edge of the image of the Sun. I had to explain that it wasn't heat from the Sun but was instead the effect of looking through our atmosphere. I tried to see the mini eclipse images in a tree and couldn't see them. Doug was wearing a hat with little holes in it and we did see the images on Doug's face. I thought this was a much better ecplise than the Christmas one a year and a half ago. For one thing it wasn't cloudy last night. Thanks. David Dunn 801-961-3253

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Re: [Utah-astronomy] Utah County Eclipse
by bruce_glad2＠space.com 11 Jun '02

11 Jun '02

Hey Chuck, what would be the best for your homemade mount? I have a pair of 8x50 binoculars do you think they would be good enough to want to use a mount? Thanks, -Bruce Glad ___________________________________________________________________ Join the Space Program: Get FREE E-mail at http://www.space.com.

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Re: [Utah-astronomy] today's partial
by bruce_glad2＠space.com 11 Jun '02

11 Jun '02

Yes Joe, i live in Sandy, I will be a senior at Hillcrest High School next year and I'm setting up an Astronomy Club there. Don't get me wrong people did look at the event, but a lot of people did not. Some people just walked around the park without a clue. -Bruce D. Glad ___________________________________________________________________ Join the Space Program: Get FREE E-mail at http://www.space.com.

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RE: [Utah-astronomy] Eclipse
by David Dunn 11 Jun '02

11 Jun '02

Yep. -----Original Message----- From: Joe Bauman [mailto:bau@desnews.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2002 7:29 AM To: utah-astronomy(a)mailman.xmission.com Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Eclipse Just to dot all the i's -- OAS is Ogden Astronomical Society, right? Thanks, Joe _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list Utah-Astronomy(a)mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy

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Comments on welder's glass as solar filter, safety
by Chuck Hards 11 Jun '02

11 Jun '02

The price on the welder's glass is certainly attractive, but know that the image may be less than satisfactory. The sun will be a dark-green color, and the filter does nothing to suppress scattering. That is, you may notice a lot of bright glare surrounding the disk of the sun itself. Detail such as sunspots will be difficult to see, plague will almost certainly be totally invisible. Low-contrast details will be lost. The best view of the sun in white light will be provided by a Baader Mylar filter. Any other brand of Mylar or metal-on-glass filter is second-best. Only Baader will show the sun as white, and preserve low-contrast details. Any other filter will tint the image blue, yellow, orange, or green. And all filters must be used ahead of any optical system used; eyes, telescope, or binocular. It is also a good idea to tape-on solar filters, even those that are a snug fit. I have seen idiot bystanders attempt to remove a filter while someone else was looking through the telescope...disaster in the making. Please take all precautions if showing the sun to the general public, and don't leave your equipment unmanned for even a few seconds. Remove your Telrads and any other lens-type reflex sight; if sunlight gets into the optical train, it will melt your reticle. This happens with Telrads when they are pointed 90-degrees from the sun, with the sun above the unit. Same with Quickfinders. Chuck __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com

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Re:Welding Glass...
by bruce_glad2＠space.com 10 Jun '02

10 Jun '02

Hey i couldn't find any #14 welding glass at the store but if i take two pieces of #10 and put them on top of each other it seems to be fine. Your thoughts on this? -Bruce Glad ___________________________________________________________________ Join the Space Program: Get FREE E-mail at http://www.space.com.

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Back
by Patrick Wiggins 10 Jun '02

10 Jun '02

Just got back from a week out of town and found a bunch of messages, many from folks on this list. There's too much going on to reply to all 80 or so right now so suffice it to say, I've not been ignoring anyone, just out of town. I'll try to get to all of them in the next day or two. Remember the eclipse tonight. Also, look to the NE about 10:29 tonight and straight overhead at 10:08 Wednesday night to see Endeavour and ISS. Patrick :-)

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