Messier Marathon Friday & Saturday
SLAS is having its annual Messier Marathon at SPOC this coming Friday and Saturday nights. We'll be using the Ealing for the marathon. The refractor is not the best for deep sky (it's a 200 mm f/16.8) so we'll probably use it for the planets If you have never seen Jupiter and Saturn (especially Saturn) through a largish refractor this is your chance. This is not a public event but members of other clubs are welcome to attend. Lots of room on the grounds around the observatory for portable scopes. Patrick
I haven't been out to SPOC yet, but I was thinking about Friday night. Since I have some plans for Saturday, I'll probably wuss out halfway through the night. Is the layout at SPOC such that I can leave without my headlights ticking everyone off? Michael On Mar 16, 2004, at 7:15 PM, Patrick Wiggins wrote:
SLAS is having its annual Messier Marathon at SPOC this coming Friday and Saturday nights.
We'll be using the Ealing for the marathon. The refractor is not the best for deep sky (it's a 200 mm f/16.8) so we'll probably use it for the planets If you have never seen Jupiter and Saturn (especially Saturn) through a largish refractor this is your chance.
This is not a public event but members of other clubs are welcome to attend.
Lots of room on the grounds around the observatory for portable scopes.
Patrick
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Michael Carnes wrote:
I haven't been out to SPOC yet, but I was thinking about Friday night. Since I have some plans for Saturday, I'll probably wuss out halfway through the night.
No worries, that's what most people do. Personally, while I'll probably look at a few M objects I'm mostly interested in Saturn and Jupiter through the refractor with the bino viewer installed. When we did that with Mars last year there was a great 3D illusion. Is the layout at SPOC such that I can leave without
my headlights ticking everyone off? One option would be to park and set up in the parking lot.
The other would be to park in the parking lot and lug your scope down by the observatory. Or if you get there before it gets dark you can park such that you can leave with minimal impact on others. Patrick
Michael, SPOC is not a dark-sky site. There is commercial development, residential neighborhoods and highways within a few hundred meters. It is primarily a public outreach, hands-on learning/research facility & social center. That said, the skies are a definite improvement over the Salt Lake valley. If I can swing it I may try for a few hours Friday night as well. C. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - More reliable, more storage, less spam http://mail.yahoo.com
Definitely not the skies you'll see at Bryce Canyon or the Wedge but from within the observatory M-31 and M-13 are both naked eye objects and the Milky Way jumps right out at you. Last year a couple of keen eyed observers were able to find stars fainter than +6 naked eye from SPOC. Patrick Chuck Hards wrote:
Michael, SPOC is not a dark-sky site. There is commercial development, residential neighborhoods and highways within a few hundred meters. It is primarily a public outreach, hands-on learning/research facility & social center. That said, the skies are a definite improvement over the Salt Lake valley. If I can swing it I may try for a few hours Friday night as well.
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Patrick Wiggins