[AZ-Observing] Arrowhead School Star Party
- From: phxjeffx@xxxxxxx
- To: az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 9 May 2013 11:06:23 -0400 (EDT)
Last night was the Arrrowhead School Star Party. It was combined with a
science fair. While there were many hundreds of people the timing and weather
were less than favorable.
I brought my 8" LX90 and there were at least 3 others from SAC. I set up at the
entrance next to my Xterra while others had their gear transported out to a
field.
The star party was set to begin at 6:00 and last to 8:00 PM. I was set up at
6:00 PM, but of course it was still very bright out. I put a solar filter on
the front of my LX90 and we looked at some Sun spots. There were a lot of
clouds and most of the time we looked at clouds. Around 7 PM a lot of people
came buy and want to look through the telescope. The Sun was too low and it was
still bright out and lots of clouds. Many kids still wanted to look through the
telescope so I let them. They just looked at coulds. I did hand out some
handheld spectroscopes. The solar spectrum was easy to see as was some of the
light's in the area spectra. Most were amazed at what they saw. So maybe there
was some inspiration.
About 7:30 PM I was able to see one bright star to the SW. I think it may have
been Sirius. I put the Star Analyser spectrograph on an eyepiece and several
people got to see the star's spectrum. As we approached 8 PM the clouds to the
west cleared and Jupiter was available. Several peopl got good views of
Jupiter, but since things were over at 8 PM most people had left.
All in all it was fun, but certainly could have been better. As Jack Jones
said, the timing was poor for a star party that ended just about when it should
have gotten started and that time and date there was little to see from a
bright city location.
Jeff
Hopkins Phoenix Observatory
(187283)
Counting Photons
Phoenix, Arizona
www.hposoft.com/Astro/astro.html
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