No cover but an old Army blanket, I'm afraid! Thanks, Joe ________________________________ From: Jay Eads <jayleads@gmail.com> To: Utah Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Tuesday, June 7, 2011 3:59 PM Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Tuesay June 7; iPad app Joe, Dew seems out to get you! Do you have a cover for your scope? At least that way the dew would get on the cover if it was all buttoned up. Michael, No trip for me. I'm staying at home until next new moon/ or waning crescent moon. I will do some lunar and double star observing though if the weather clears up a bit. My cough is starting to come back and I'm pretty tired by the end of the day. I have a truing on Thursday over by Steve Fischer's house and if Steve is home I have a debt to pay . . . Jay Sent from my iPad On Jun 7, 2011, at 3:31 PM, Joe Bauman <josephmbauman@yahoo.com> wrote:
Hi Michael, I think I'll head to SPOC or Lakeside tonight. If I do go to Lakeside, I'll be at the berm, where SLASers have set up in the past. There is a site officially named Lakeside on the map, which is where I think you went in the past. It's beyond the site I use, off toward the Great Salt Lake, if I remember correctly. The site that some of us use is reached by driving about five miles from the freeway, then turning left at the sign pointing out Big Canyon. After about 0.3 of a mile on this dirt road, there's a turnoff toward the berm, only a short way away.
What scares me about Lakeside is the last time I went, a few days ago, the dew was so heavy that my gear was as soaked as if I had set up in the rain.
Best wishes, Joe
________________________________ From: Michael Vanopstall <opstall@math.utah.edu> To: utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com Sent: Tuesday, June 7, 2011 3:17 PM Subject: [Utah-astronomy] Tuesay June 7; iPad app
Hello all --
Anyone going out to Lakeside tonight? Forecast at present looks good. I'm just asking because I'm not likely to head out until after midnight when the moon's down, and I don't want to interrupt. Still not a sure thing, but I sort of feel like a few hours out tonight...
Anyone else annoyed that S&T's online interactive sky chart is offline indefinitely (evidently used old software on old servers -- Fortran back end on a VMS system is my guess)? Anyway, I found an iOS app with very similar functionality (not yet reviewed by Jay on his blog!) It's called "Planisphere" and costs 99 cents. It is what it says -- a software planisphere where you can change location and time and see what's up.
For me this is perfect for planning. When in the field, I know the constellations, so I don't use things like Google Sky Map, but for 99c, this is a good tool for preparing outings.
---- Rev. Michael A. van Opstall Department of Mathematics, University of Utah Office: JWB 313 opstall@math.utah.edu
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