Excellent, fully comprehensive report, my faithful sub-director! L&O is fun stuff, people! On Feb 18, 2012 4:33 PM, "Joe Bauman" <josephmbauman@yahoo.com> wrote:
I might add to El Presidente Chuck's fine report that we had both liver-and-onion eaters and those with less highly refined palates, and got along splendidly. Among topic covered, besides those he mentioned, were World War I, World War II, Browning arms, an iPad-like gizmo that shows you what the sky is doing at any moment and in any direction, the fact that 2nd assistant sub-director Bau can't hold a "mad" for more than two days, the fact that Mrs. 2nd assistant sub-director Bau disputes that, Chicago, airplanes including Patrick's, the meaning of the marge of Lake Labarge, recitations of Robert Service, 1847 sourdough still cultivated, an astronomy club coup, sudden wealth, the reason Clark Planetarium is named that, Mark's new focuser (present and admired by all), the wooden telescope he's building, a wonderful handmade camera filter for eclipse imaging, Ogden Astronomical Society trip to St. George, and other stuff.
-- jb
________________________________ From: Chuck Hards <chuck.hards@gmail.com> To: Utah Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Saturday, February 18, 2012 3:35 PM Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] L&O meeting
What a great L&O meeting today, thanks to all who came! Ray, Joe, Cory, Kay, Norm, new friend Dave (I hope I remember his name correctly!), Mark, and myself. Did I forget anyone?
Mark brought his new Moonlight focuser for his 6" f/10 refractor. What a fine piece of workmanship- I don't own a focuser that fancy or beautiful! I'm going to check out their website soon. It's going to look fantastic on a turned-wood tube.
I brought my maple bino parallelogram and we looked at a few bricks with the 15x70mm bino, lol. Kay brought his home-made mylar solar filter for his telephoto lens. Too much high cirrus to see any sunspots, but it worked very well.
Since we had several regulars called-away at the last minute this time, I'm thinking the next meeting should be a bit sooner- maybe early April?
For those who don't like liver and onions, this meeting marked the first time when L&O orders were in the minority! And BTW Joe, your piece of liver was bigger than mine. I'll have to have a word with the proprieter that el presidente's liver must be larger than the sub-directors. ;-)
Good to see you all again, hope to see you next time, if not sooner. _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy
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