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Kirk, Is it too late to chime in for Keller? Cloud cover? I will check back here. SB
[/quote]Not at all. CDC looked decent. I will try to be there around 8:00.
Kirk
I just checked the CSC for Eagle Bluff. It's not the greatest I've ever seen, but it wasn't real bad either.
I just called the Eagle Bluff staff and there is nothing going on except for a couple of people decorating for a wedding reception tomorrow.
We can have a dark parking lot for stargazing.
Anyone interested?
After watching the KTTC TV weather, it looks like Eagle Bluff is out of the question. They are calling for partly to mostly cloudy skies thru the night.
If anyone does go, I would recommend LOCAL OBSERVING ONLY.
Maybe we'll have better luck next weekend.
If there's a break in the clouds, I may broadcast on NightSkiesNetwork later tonight. It'll be spotty at best.
Well it's almost 2:30am Monday morning and I've been out with the telescope since 9pm. Skies cleared nicely but not perfect. Dew heaters getting a little bit of a workout. Capturing some images of M27. 57, & 13. Viewed numerous Messier objects and tons of the globular clusters.
Hope to get a few good images out of this, it's been so long since I've had an opportunity to use any of my scopes.
Eagle Bluff? Hah! It looks like we're stifled again, astronomy fans. It's a NO GO tonight, and tomorrow night doesn't look much better.
We'll get our licks in one of these days.
Hello astronomy fans. I did my outreach event for the Hidden Bluffs Campground again last night. I had LOTS of kids and we did the solar system scale model and played "Trigonomic Parallax". They had a blast.
Since the Moon was at 1st Quarter, observing started early, at 7:30. The Moon, Venus, Mars, Saturn, Polaris, Alberio, and M13 was all that we looked at, but people just kept coming by and nobody complained about looking at anything else. Lots of WOW! OMG! Sweet! Cool! and even a Ridicuous! was heard. And one little boy even told me he could see an astronaut walking on the Moon. Watch out Steven O'Meara, you've got some sharp eyed competition on the way. (I knew that Televu Ethos was a good investment.)
The campground turned off the one security light that had always bothered me in the past, which was great, but the valley is still a dew trap, so when I needed to dry out my scope in the van, I just whipped my laser pointer out and did the Starbie constellation thing. They all loved that and quite a few of them were very adept at spotting sattelites going by.
I ended up with at least 40 people through the course of the night, and the last of them didn't head out until 11:30. I told them about the RAC and I think we just might end up with some new faces at the meetings in the future. And lots of Dad's got asked, "Dad, can we get a telescope?" It was a glorious night for astronomy!
Yep. And we are due to go out to Rushmore Shadows Campground for this same company in July. They put us up for free for 3 nights and we're only 20 minutes from Mt. Rushmore.
Hello to all
It's been a while since I posted. It's been a very cloudy June. I have decided to try to find Pluto again. That endevour ended last summer in disapointment. I believe I have a good chance to follow it as it moves into a dark sky area for the next several days. I should find out tomorrow night. I'm also hoping to get my scope up to the lake where I have my camper this summer. No light polution at all. Dew could be an issue though. It is quite fun to have the summer sky back. In a word … Globulars!! ;D
I should be able to help with the Gamehaven outreach in July. I'll keep you informed.Happy Trails
RickHi. Newbie to this board, just got seriously back into astronomy not too long ago after purchasing my first telescope. Will there be folks out observing this Friday at Eagle Bluff, weather permitting? If so, a colleague and I would like to stop by!
Welcome, Ellen! Glad to see that you are following our club on the forum.
I called Eagle Bluff and there is nothing going on in the parking lot that evening. Any club members interested? Eagle Bluff has overnighters there who may be interested in coming up to look through our scopes. Of interest also is a "Night Camp" starting Wed to Sunday next week for 6/7/8 graders whose sole purpose is to learn about the night. Does this sound right up our alley?
If not Eagle Bluff, then Keller?? Rebecca Bomgaars
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