I am well and truly sick of winter and any spring-like event to look forward to sounds great. We have no sports cars, years ago my folks had a Ford Galaxy 500 and now we have a Subaru, so we have stayed in an astronomical theme, at least. How about a "starcar barbeque" in conjunction with a solar party? We could look for sun spots and cars that deserve their spot in the sun. -----Original Message----- From: utah-astronomy-bounces@mailman.xmission.com [mailto:utah-astronomy-bounces@mailman.xmission.com] On Behalf Of Chuck Hards Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2008 12:37 PM To: Utah Astronomy Subject: [Utah-astronomy] Wednesday ramblings This morning I managed to spot Antares low in the east. The sun is moving eastward through the summer zodiac. Meteorologically, winter is half over- even though astronomically it's still got a tad over 2 months to go. It's effectively over when I take the Mazda out on the road for the first time around March 1st - a much more exciting event that the equinox! Anybody in SLAS still interested in doing the car show this year? I still like the idea of doing it as SPOC in conjunction with a sun-party, or late in the day leading into a star-party. If not as a fundraiser, maybe as a "meet and greet" for new members, as part of the Inreach effort. Possible BBQ? SPOC training event? Help me out here and toss-out some ideas. Can you tell that I've got spring and summer on my mind, and am officially sick of winter? ;o) BTW, if anybody was watching FOX 13 this morning, my daughter was on TV. She is the lead singer in her high-school band "The Willie Hendrix Experience". They got to do a brief stint playing Black Sabbath's classic hit "Iron Man" on FOX's "school of the week" morning segment. Rock On! _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Visit the Photo Gallery: http://gallery.utahastronomy.com Visit the Wiki: http://www.utahastronomy.com