[AZ-Observing] Re: North Rim Grand Canyon Star Party

Tom;

It sounds like you are having a great time...enjoy.  I want to hear what
Story Musgrave has to say about servicing the HST, I have no doubt those =
are
great tales.

Clear Skies;
Steve Coe


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Subject: [AZ-Observing] North Rim Grand Canyon Star Party

Hi all,

Jenn and I made it to the first two nights of the star party, which were
last Saturday and Sunday.  Steve Dodder appears to have things sailing =
very
smoothly in his first stint as organizer.  The star party is held on the
porch behind the main building, so the 10 or so telescopes set up there =
were
about the upper limit.  The lights are in good control, so the public =
got to
enjoy great views through the scopes.  Seeing right next to the big hole =
in
the ground is remarkably good, with nighttime air temperatures that =
barely
fall from sunset through midnight.  We were able to show off shadow =
transits
of Jupiter's moons on both nights, the second one involving giant =
Ganymede.
With Steve at the helm and Chris Hanrahan helping him out, I'm sure the =
star
party is going well this week.

We have made a trip into southern Utah, currently at Bryce Canyon =
National
Park.  While this park always has a big astronomy presence, this week it =
is
especially so, as the next four days are its Astronomy Festival.  =
Tonight,
we are heading down to the little town of Panguitch to see keynote =
speaker
Story Musgrave, who I'm sure will have some stories about servicing the
Space Telescope.

Tom
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