The Stargazing for Everyone crew is going to be at the Challenger Space Center in Peoria with an array of scopes with filters. Bob Parks -----Original Message----- From: sac-forum-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:sac-forum-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Peter Argenziano Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2006 12:17 PM To: sac-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [sac-forum] Re: Mercury Transit While it's not a SAC event, there is a Mercury Transit event scheduled for the new observatory in Gilbert. In addition to the facility's telescope, various people (SAC and EVAC members) will have equipment on site. Since this is a public event, everyone is welcome. I believe there will be an announcement in the local newspapers - they have been invited to attend. General observatory information is available here: http://rotaryobs.org Peter ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeff Hopkins" <phxjeff@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: <sac-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2006 11:15 AM Subject: [sac-forum] Mercury Transit > Is the club planning anything for the Mercury Transit on Wednesday, 8 > November 2006? > > The next one is not until 2016. We are lucky in Arizona as nowhere in > Europe or Asia can you see this and most of the rest of the east portion > of the USA only gets to see part of it. > > Jeff > -- > Jeff Hopkins > HPO SOFT > Counting Photons > http://www.hposoft.com/Astro/astro.html > Hopkins Phoenix Observatory > 7812 West Clayton Drive > Phoenix, Arizona 85033-2439 U.S.A. > www.hposoft.com > >