Evening Chuck et al, Date, of course, is partly dependent on when your new mount arrives. My first thought was to hold it on the afternoon of a regularly scheduled public star party but then I worried that could make for an awfully long day for folks that want to attend both the Sun party and the star party. So now I'm thinking of an early afternoon start where we could marvel at your mount and use the Bogdan and the DayStar filter to look at the Sun. Might also encourage others to bring their solar observing gear. As for the date, my "old retired person" schedule is pretty open so we'll need to schedule around those who have lives. :) Thoughts? On 04 May 2010, at 21:21, Chuck Hards wrote:
Hi Patrick, did you mean 3 individual spots, or 3 groups? I noted two groups in the PST, one had 3 or 4 discernable spots, the smaller group had two distinct spots.
I'd love to get to SPOC a bit early for a sun party- you are talking about tagging it onto a star party later that same night, yes?
Do you have a specific date in mind?
On 5/4/10, Patrick Wiggins <paw@wirelessbeehive.com> wrote:
Hi Chuck,
As you noted there is a good bit of solar activity today (I counted 3 spots and lots of prominences) so maybe it's a good time to start thinking about holding the first of those SPOC Sun parties that has been discussed here.
And, it could also be an occasion for you to introduce everyone to your new mount.
Any interest?
patrick