Sounds like free pie wednesday is the biggest problem.
Thanks Mike! Check out my videos again soon as I have several more episodes of the SPOC build in the works. I have been trying some new things and proving that creativity does not come naturally to me. And I have been busy with other projects but I will have at least two new episodes coming soon. I'd like to end up with it all on a set of disc's for the club. The museum was Excellent and reasonably priced, unlike some other things to do in the Salt Lake Valley. While opening day was free, the regular admission for an adult under 65 is only $9.00. Even the food was reasonably priced compared to most venues like it. I checked out the meeting room that SLAS has been talking about again and it still looks promising. I have been there twice and the wind was blowing both times. That may prove to be problematic. Oh well plenty of time. Steve
Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2011 06:49:52 -0800 From: astro_outwest@yahoo.com To: utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Natural History Museum
Thanks for the video.
I also looked at some of your other Youtube contributions. You did a great job showing the construction of the SPOC observatories back in the spring of 2001. A wonderful 12 minutes worth of video.
________________________________ From: Steve Fisher <iotacass1@hotmail.com> To: utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com; Bill Cowles <bjcowles@xmission.com> Sent: Friday, November 18, 2011 8:01 PM Subject: [Utah-astronomy] Natural History Museum
I was fortunate enough to be one of the very first (from the public) to spend the day at the new Natural History Museum of Utah today. I took my 14 year old granddaughter and her friend. They were great! I simply could go on forever about what a great museum this is and is going to be. Everything was open, all the labs and storage areas that will not be open most days. Everything worked as it should on the first day except the Heliostat and solar telescope that was formerly at the Hansen Planetarium. The total overcast prevented it from doing it's thing. This brought about the funniest part of the day. So many things in the museum are "interactive" and at the Heliostat people were waving their hands over the table and pushing buttons and trying to get a display. I informed them that it needed sunlight to work. (can you imagine that) After a few laughs we moved on to talking about the Venus Transit in 2012 and I found a fairly large audience that was very receptive to hearing about the plans that SLAS is working on. I think we will have a crowd from the msueum that will be very interested in Astronomy either solar or night time. Here is a teaser, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXrug5MjuEw A small astronomy area but it is there! Check out the new museum, I think you will be glad you did.Steve
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