[sac-forum] Re: tonight

We're just back from Tucson.
Dean Koenig at Starizona did a superb job refurbishing the Sky View Pro Mount while Tom and I visited with Valerie Goff--window of the great Kitt Peak Optician Bob Goff and also quite the amateur astronomer. Then we took in a pristine sky at Flandrau Planetarium--even saw a couple of huge meteors go blazing across their sky. Their science center is fun--I made a short animated film of a scorpion fixing Einstein's hair and also of a giant frog swallowing Gumby. Included in their rock and mineral displays are 4 kinds of Moon rocks/sediments including breccia indicating fractures from a meteorite impact and also a pretty good Arizona meteorite collection. Interesting to note is they have found meteorites from both the core and crust of asteroids but nothing from the mantle.
Starizona had a scope pointing at a murky cloud shrouded Jupiter--could surprisingly coax some belt detail out of it but nada in the way of Galilean Moons.
Coming back we saw glorious Lightening Works--we took Hwy 77 up to Florence then Hunt Hwy to Queen Creek--witnessed the some true connections of Tucson to Phoenix making that one big megatropolis that was predicted 30 years ago. There's even another Anthem going up S. E. of Queen Creek now.
Soooo, while it's not the true astronomy I'm craving, it was a nice astronomical kind of day anyway & I feel we got quite a lot of astronomy in per gallon of gas. 

JTP
----- Original Message ----- From: "gene lucas" <geneluca@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
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Sent: Saturday, July 14, 2007 10:14 PM
Subject: [sac-forum] Re: tonight
This is what Gerry Rattley refers to as "Sucker Hole" weather....'Nother name for da AZ Monsoon...Sometimes you get lucky and the clouds blow over. May be steady seeing tomorrow after the front passes..... 
Gene
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Stan Gorodenski wrote:
I think you should have stayed awhile longer after having driven so long to get there. I just got back from Phoenix. It is 9:20pm and I am 20 mi. W. of the Cherry site. After reading your message I went outside and saw stars from horizon to horizon. There are a few clouds but not bad at all. It is a nice evening with a nice breeze. Very beautiful with all the stars out. At this moment it would be good observing.You never know how it will turn out and who knows what it will be like an hour from now. If anybody remained at Cherry, maybe they can fill us in what it was like later in the evening. 
Stan
Steve Rodgers wrote:
Big rain clouds building to the north. We are leaving. No one should come to cherry tonight. But we did find 3 caches today so the drive was not a complete waste.

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