[AZ-Observing] Re: Thunderbird Park Star Party
- From: "Tejera, Rick" <rtejera@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "'az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'" <az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2003 12:43:16 -0400
I got there a bit late and set up on the far end of the field. Still I had
lots of traffic and each time I changed objects, I ended up with a line of
eager viewers. I showed folks Mars at 240x, most everyone was pretty
impressed with being able to see the SPC. Told 'em they should've seen it a
few months ago :). I also showed M31 (M110 was also visible in the field),
M13, M57, NGC 457 and even got M8, although all you could see was the
cluster.
Quite a few people commented on my EQ platform. Seems folks are more
observant than we give 'em credit for. They all seemed to notice that there
was something different about Gert from the other Dobs out there. I'll say
this, It was nice to be able to set the scope on an object and not have to
re-center it for each guest! Once you track you don't go back.
My daughter Lindsay, help out by giving away the Sky & Tel getting started
in astronomy brochures and some stickers and coloring pages I got from NASA.
She loves to help with this stuff.
I also got a few leads on folks interested in learning more about the hobby.
a few folks had just bought telescope or were thinking about it. Naturally I
invited them to Friday's meeting. Let's see if the come.
Clear Skies
Rick Tejera
Editor SACnews
Saguaro Astronomy Club
Phoenix, Arizona
-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Hopkins [mailto:phxjeff@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Sunday, October 05, 2003 8:33 AM
To: az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [AZ-Observing] Thunderbird Park Star Party
The weather was perfect and there was a great turnout last night at
the Thunderbird Park Star Party in NW Phoenix. I estimate several
hundred people came. There was a couple dozen telescopes set up. I
brought my 13.1" Yellow DOB and looked at the moon most of the time
with 58X and a moon filter.
While the seeing was rather poor and the sky glow bright, people
still were pleased with what they saw. In addition to the sights of
the moon and Mars, the double double Epsilon Lyrae brought ohhh's of
amazement as well as several deep sky objects.
At sunset Arcturus in the western sky seemed to be exceptionally
bright and had many wondering what it was. Well after dark rising
Cappella in the north east display a brilliant explosion of flashing
colors as its star light filtered thought a very large air mass
producing a spectrum of blazing colors. Some were convinced it was an
airplane until they looked at it with a telescope.
I think everyone had a great time.
Jeff
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