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Re: [Utah-astronomy] Great Basin Astronomy Festival
by Jay Eads 05 Jul '10

05 Jul '10

Chuck, I contacted Kelly and he said he has joined Utah-Astronomy and will be posting information here per an email conversation I've had with him. This is the first festival but they have had many programs in the past. Here is a list of the items they still have for this year: Snake Valley Festival 7/24 - 7/25 Great Basin Astronomy Festival 8/6-8/8 Labor Day Weekend 9/4-9/5 What I provided is where many of the activities in the past have been. Debbie, If you want Kelly's information, phone etc., I have it and I'm sure he wouldn't mind me giving it to you in email. If you respond and tell me you want it, I'll send it to you. He's pretty good about either going out with visitors there to observe or in at least letting you know where to set up. Since no one has spoken up on Wolf Creek this coming weekend, I may just end up driving out to GBNP this Sunday afternoon, getting a campsite and the setting up for some very outstanding observing through new moon on Tuesday. Depends on weather though. On 2010-07-05 04:53, Chuck Hards wrote: > Debbie, use the "contact us" link to ask them directly. Never having > attended (this is the first year of the festival, officially), I can't > answer your questions. > > http://www.nps.gov/grba/contacts.htm > > Just looking at a map, this has the potential for the darkest, best > skies (weather permitting) of any national park festival, bar none. > > > On 7/4/10, Debbie <astrodeb@???> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Is the camping free or do we have to pay the $12 fee like everybody else? > > Who do we > > contact if we are thinking of going? What is the elevation up there? I would > > think > > it would be a nice place to observe with less crowds and drunks. I bet the > > skies > > are really dark too. > >

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Re: [Utah-astronomy] Back to the Pit
by Jay Eads 05 Jul '10

05 Jul '10

Except for some equipment malfunctions, it was a great night. There were four of us, seeing was very good and the Milky Way looked wonderful with its lanes and structure evident. On 2010-07-05 04:54, Chuck Hards wrote: > Jay, had I not had a run-in with a fine bottle of Jameson's earlier in > the day, I would probably be joining you tonight. > > Ad astra! > > > On 7/4/10, Jay Eads <jayleads@???> wrote: > > Low humidity (55% from 4:00a.m. til 6:00a.m.) and a very good Clear > > Sky Clock are taking me and a couple of others to the Pit n Pole > > tonight. If anyone would like to come, please feel free! It looks good > > for the next couple of days. > > > > Clear Skies, > > > > Jay > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Utah-Astronomy mailing list > > Utah-Astronomy@??? > > http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy > > Visit the Photo Gallery: http://www.slas.us/gallery2/main.php > > Visit the Wiki: http://www.utahastronomy.com > > > >

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Back to the Pit
by Jay Eads 04 Jul '10

04 Jul '10

Low humidity (55% from 4:00a.m. til 6:00a.m.) and a very good Clear Sky Clock are taking me and a couple of others to the Pit n Pole tonight. If anyone would like to come, please feel free! It looks good for the next couple of days. Clear Skies, Jay

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Re: [Utah-astronomy] Great Basin Astronomy Festival
by Debbie 04 Jul '10

04 Jul '10

Hi, Is the camping free or do we have to pay the $12 fee like everybody else? Who do we contact if we are thinking of going? What is the elevation up there? I would think it would be a nice place to observe with less crowds and drunks. I bet the skies are really dark too. Debbie On Thu Jul 1 17:40 , Chuck Hards <chuck.hards(a)gmail.com> sent: >This is over a month away, folks, forecasts are kind of useless this far ahead. > >It is firmly entrenched in the monsoon season, but I remember a lot of >cloudless, sunny skies in August in my half-century in the Great >Basin. > >On 7/1/10, Joe Bauman josephmbauman(a)yahoo.com> wrote: >> We are planning to, but I'm worried about rain now. Need to check the >> forecast. Thanks, Joe >> >> --- On Thu, 7/1/10, Chuck Hards chuck.hards(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> >> From: Chuck Hards chuck.hards(a)gmail.com> >> Subject: [Utah-astronomy] Great Basin Astronomy Festival >> To: "Utah Astronomy" utah-astronomy(a)mailman.xmission.com> >> Date: Thursday, July 1, 2010, 2:56 PM >> >> Anybody planning on attending the Great Basin Astronomy Festival next month? >> >> http://www.nps.gov/grba/planyourvisit/2010-astronomy-festival.htm >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Utah-Astronomy mailing list >> Utah-Astronomy(a)mailman.xmission.com >> http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy >> Visit the Photo Gallery: http://www.slas.us/gallery2/main.php >> Visit the Wiki: http://www.utahastronomy.com >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Utah-Astronomy mailing list >> Utah-Astronomy(a)mailman.xmission.com >> http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy >> Visit the Photo Gallery: http://www.slas.us/gallery2/main.php >> Visit the Wiki: http://www.utahastronomy.com >> > >_______________________________________________ >Utah-Astronomy mailing list >Utah-Astronomy(a)mailman.xmission.com >http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy >Visit the Photo Gallery: http://www.slas.us/gallery2/main.php >Visit the Wiki: http://www.utahastronomy.com

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Re: [Utah-astronomy] Great Basin Astronomy Festival
by Jay Eads 04 Jul '10

04 Jul '10

If your interested in any of the Astronomical things at Great Basin contact Kelly Carroll, one of the park rangers there. If you want the email send me an email and I will send it back to you. My email is available on the message board list serve. The public outreach is usually held up by the visitor site though afterwards there are some great spots up in the mountains, but not for a ton of people. Kelly does have some very good spots though. Wonderful place, especially if you want to go with just a small group of two to four or by yourself. Elevation can go from the valley floor up to around 10,000 feet. I do have a few extra copies of the GBNP Park Maps that Kelly sent me last March for their Messier Marathon that I handed out. I put Great Basin down on the schedule for August and will be going. If anyone wants to ride together and we can fit my stuff and your stuff in my Pathfinder your welcome to share the trip. On another note, next weekend approaches new moon and since I am not making the trip to Bryce I am probably going to go spend two nights up at Wolf Creek. Anyone else interested in heading up there? Jay On 2010-07-04 16:37, erikhansen wrote: > >Well it is not a SLAS sanctioned event, you probably should contact the > park. The web page has a contact us by e-mail link, but no e-mail address > is given, you have to click on link to send them e-mail. Tom Sevick was > the original person that tried to get SLAS officially involved in this. > > > > Hi, > > > > Is the camping free or do we have to pay the $12 fee like everybody else? > > Who do we > > contact if we are thinking of going? What is the elevation up there? I > > would think > > it would be a nice place to observe with less crowds and drunks. I bet the > > skies > > are really dark too. > > > > Debbie > > > > On Thu Jul 1 17:40 , Chuck Hards <chuck.hards@???> sent: > > > >>This is over a month away, folks, forecasts are kind of useless this far > >> ahead. > >> > >>It is firmly entrenched in the monsoon season, but I remember a lot of > >>cloudless, sunny skies in August in my half-century in the Great > >>Basin. > >> > >>On 7/1/10, Joe Bauman josephmbauman@???> wrote: > >>> We are planning to, but I'm worried about rain now. Need to check the > >>> forecast. Thanks, Joe > >>> > >>> --- On Thu, 7/1/10, Chuck Hards chuck.hards@???> wrote: > >>> > >>> From: Chuck Hards chuck.hards@???> > >>> Subject: [Utah-astronomy] Great Basin Astronomy Festival > >>> To: "Utah Astronomy" utah-astronomy@???> > >>> Date: Thursday, July 1, 2010, 2:56 PM > >>> > >>> Anybody planning on attending the Great Basin Astronomy Festival next > >>> month? > >>> > >>> http://www.nps.gov/grba/planyourvisit/2010-astronomy-festival.htm > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> Utah-Astronomy mailing list > >>> Utah-Astronomy@??? > >>> http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy > >>> Visit the Photo Gallery: http://www.slas.us/gallery2/main.php > >>> Visit the Wiki: http://www.utahastronomy.com > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> Utah-Astronomy mailing list > >>> Utah-Astronomy@??? > >>> http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy > >>> Visit the Photo Gallery: http://www.slas.us/gallery2/main.php > >>> Visit the Wiki: http://www.utahastronomy.com > >>> > >> > >>_______________________________________________ > >>Utah-Astronomy mailing list > >>Utah-Astronomy@??? > >>http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy > >>Visit the Photo Gallery: http://www.slas.us/gallery2/main.php > >>Visit the Wiki: http://www.utahastronomy.com > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Utah-Astronomy mailing list > > Utah-Astronomy@??? > > http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy > > Visit the Photo Gallery: http://www.slas.us/gallery2/main.php > > Visit the Wiki: http://www.utahastronomy.com > > > > > >

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Nice sunspot
by Patrick Wiggins 02 Jul '10

02 Jul '10

For those who may not have had a look at our local star recently, there's a nice sunspot just now. First one in a while that I've been able to see easily with just 7x50s. patrick

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Great Basin Astronomy Festival
by Chuck Hards 02 Jul '10

02 Jul '10

Anybody planning on attending the Great Basin Astronomy Festival next month? http://www.nps.gov/grba/planyourvisit/2010-astronomy-festival.htm

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Re: [Utah-astronomy] Great Basin Astronomy Festival
by Jay Eads 01 Jul '10

01 Jul '10

Chuck, Yep, planning on going to this and looking forward to it. Jay On 2010-07-01 23:40, Chuck Hards wrote: > This is over a month away, folks, forecasts are kind of useless this far ahead. > > It is firmly entrenched in the monsoon season, but I remember a lot of > cloudless, sunny skies in August in my half-century in the Great > Basin. > > On 7/1/10, Joe Bauman <josephmbauman@???> wrote: > > We are planning to, but I'm worried about rain now. Need to check the > > forecast. Thanks, Joe > > > > --- On Thu, 7/1/10, Chuck Hards <chuck.hards@???> wrote: > > > > From: Chuck Hards <chuck.hards@???> > > Subject: [Utah-astronomy] Great Basin Astronomy Festival > > To: "Utah Astronomy" <utah-astronomy@???> > > Date: Thursday, July 1, 2010, 2:56 PM > > > > Anybody planning on attending the Great Basin Astronomy Festival next month? > > > > http://www.nps.gov/grba/planyourvisit/2010-astronomy-festival.htm > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Utah-Astronomy mailing list > > Utah-Astronomy@??? > > http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy > > Visit the Photo Gallery: http://www.slas.us/gallery2/main.php > > Visit the Wiki: http://www.utahastronomy.com > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Utah-Astronomy mailing list > > Utah-Astronomy@??? > > http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy > > Visit the Photo Gallery: http://www.slas.us/gallery2/main.php > > Visit the Wiki: http://www.utahastronomy.com > > > >

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Saturday Star Party
by Jay Eads 01 Jul '10

01 Jul '10

I know there is a Star Party this Saturday at SPOC and now that I have put the XX14i together, I want to bring it out for first light there. I have never owned an intelliscope from Orion so I'm a little leary on that. If I bring it out early, with my level etc., anyone willing to check to make sure I installed the intelliscope feature correctly? Also, any chance to set it up next to the club's XX12i which I assume will be there so I can take some photo's of differences between them? Thanks, Jay.

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