[sac-forum] Re: tonight

JTP, what a unique observing report. It is always a treat seeing Dean K. but I, normally, take I-10 to and from his place. No doubt the Florence route will attract many housing developments in the coming years. Guess our kids need a place to live.
So far I haven't had much chance to see much of Jupiter, I'm happily envious of your chance to soak up some photons.
Speaking of your Sky View Pro mount how long did it take Dean to do the refurbishing? Reason I ask is mine has a squeak, at times, and am wondering if there's something wrong with the gears or internals.
Hopefully we will all get our chances to get some serious photon collections done. 

Clear skies,
aj
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jennifer Polakis" <m24@xxxxxxx> 
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Sent: Sunday, July 15, 2007 12:59 AM
Subject: [sac-forum] Re: tonight
Dean Koenig at Starizona did a superb job refurbishing the Sky View Pro Mount
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

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