[AZ-Observing] Cherry Road DOTM Star Party Report

  • From: "Jimmy Ray" <jimmy_ray@xxxxxxx>
  • To: <az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2007 11:21:48 -0700

> The Cherry Road DOTM Star Party was an outstanding success. Plenty of 
> laughs, party snacks, what  a great time. Observers worked on thier very 
> bright, named star observing lists, etc. At some points deep space objects 
> such as the summer triangle could be made out using averted vision. 
> General discussions outside of great bands of the 60's, included Jupiter's 
> massive nebulosity, The discovery that Anteries is in fact a very short 
> period, highly variable star and how to tell the difference between the 
> milkyway and a cloud using the reflected lightning bolt principal. By 10 
> PM such massive volumes of this new data had been collected that we packed 
> it up and hauled it all home.....
>
> See you at the All-Arizona....
>
> Jimmy Ray
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Dan Gruber" <dgruber@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <sac-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, September 15, 2007 20:42
> Subject: [sac-forum] Re: [Fwd: Re: Antennna vs. Cherry Road...]
>
>
>> At 7 pm Jimmy Ray, Andrew Goodwin, Jack Jones and I had not set up any
>> of our scopes due to cloud cover. At that point I offered to be the
>> sacrificial lamb and leave. I'm home now and I trust that the others are
>> enjoying a pleasant night of observing. Sigh. I'm going to console
>> myself with a beer.
>>
>> Dan

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