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The Needle Galaxy
by Joe Bauman 04 Apr '11

04 Apr '11

Hi Friends, Here's my blog about last Friday night-Saturday morning. Best wishes, Joe http://www.deseretnews.com/blog/47/10011724/Nightly-news-astronomy-The-Gala…

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Coronado PST solar scope
by Debbie 04 Apr '11

04 Apr '11

I borrowed my friend's little 40mm PST last week and fell in love with it. It was easy to set up and get the sun centered with the finder. I put my new new 9mm Nagler T6 in and the view was awesome once I got it focused. I loved seeing the prominences coming off the limb of the sun. The views seemed better in the morning than in the afternoon as it gets kind of windy down in Southern Utah. I put the 7mm Nagler in one morning and the sun almost had a 3D effect. The sun is so dynamic. I think I miss the little scope now. Some people driving by wanted to know what I was looking at and I showed them. Now I think I want one. Be careful. Solar observing can be addicting. Debbie

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Re: [Utah-astronomy] Astronomy Club Inquiry
by Richard Tenney 04 Apr '11

04 Apr '11

Katja, I'm CC'ing the local astronomy community, and will let them respond to you directly. Debbie is in St. George, and may be interested (Debbie?), as are others. Anyone on the list, feel free to respond here. /R --- On Fri, 4/1/11, Katja Jahn <kjahn(a)ymtvacations.com> wrote: From: Katja Jahn <kjahn(a)ymtvacations.com> Subject: Astronomy Club Inquiry To: retenney(a)yahoo.com Date: Friday, April 1, 2011, 10:51 AM Dear Rich, I have found your email through the UVAA website and hope you can help with a commercial inquiry for the St. George area. A few years back I have been privy to a wonderful “stargazing night” with lecture at the Red Rock Mountain Spa in St. George. A docent had come to the resort, talked about some general points of stargazing then a group of us was transported to an outside residential area where a large telescope was set up and where we could admire the moon’s rising and the awesome night sky around us. A memory that I am still treasuring! Now it just so happens that I am Travel professional and am developing programs for a large tour operator traveling through the St. George area regularly. Based on my experience, I am currently looking to establish such a program for our groups as an “optional tour” (which guest could purchase as a package on top of their basic trip). I am wondering if you have members in your club that would be interested to guide our travelers on such a night. We would sell this commercially for a profit so this could be compensated either as a donation to your club or as a regular payment to the docent. Our groups are mature travelers from the US and Canada and I am sure a package that includes dinner at a local restaurant, a little presentation on general stargazing and then the great experience itself would generate a lot of interest. We are staying at the BW Abbey in for the 2011 season and have coach transportation available to us. Any assistance you can provide, even if only a name to refer to, will be much appreciated. Best regards, Katja Katja M. JahnProduct Manager YMT Vacations I TUI Travel PLC100 N. Sepulveda Blvd, Ste. 1700El Segundo, CA 90245Phn: 310-649-7110cell: 310-648-4200fax: 310-649-1075 CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This email, including attachments, is for the sole use of the individual(s) to whom it is addressed, and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, distribution, or reproduction is prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please notify the sender by reply email and destroy this message and its attachments in its entirety.

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Delete me
by Wayne Reese 04 Apr '11

04 Apr '11

Please remove me from whatever list I'm on to receive these. Thans Wayne

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This past weekend
by Craig Smith 03 Apr '11

03 Apr '11

So how was the observing Thursday and Friday? Craig

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astronomy picture of the day
by Gary Vardon 03 Apr '11

03 Apr '11

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correction -- Chuck's question
by Joe Bauman 03 Apr '11

03 Apr '11

When I was at the Wedge the other night, I realized I gave Chuck bad info about my guide camera. It's no longer the Star Shooter; I use the Meade Deep Sky Imager. Sorry -- Joe

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Milky way
by Mark Shelton 03 Apr '11

03 Apr '11

Cool Link http://www.wimp.com/comprehenduniverse/

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Free camera (and one not free)
by Patrick Wiggins 03 Apr '11

03 Apr '11

Hopefully the subject line got your attention. Long ago someone left an Apple Quick Take 100 camera at SPOC. http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=14659 I kept it safe waiting for someone to claim it and then totally forgot about it. I just found it while doing some cleaning. Anyone want it? No charge. As for the not free camera, I've still got my very first imager, an ST-237. http://www.sbig.com/pdffiles/p237man.pdf I have not used it since getting my ST-10 and, much as I keep thinking I'm going to use it again someday, that day never comes. Come with a filter wheel with a bunch of filters, all the cables and cords and the original printed manual. Any interest in that? Not free to a good home but cheap to a good home. patrick

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Meade's "once bitter rival Celestron"?
by Patrick Wiggins 02 Apr '11

02 Apr '11

Hi all, I heard off list from another SLAS member about Meade's stock being really cheap. That got me poking around the web where I came across this page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meade_Instruments Note how in the "Origins and history" section it refers to Celestron as being Meade's "once bitter rival". Huh? I remember that at one point they attempted to merge but I don't think that ever happened. Aren't the two companies still rivals? ??? patrick

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