I agree the naked eye sight of the 5 planets isn't spectacular, but the idea
of being able to show all 5 planets through telescopes all at once is a
little unusual and could be entertaining. Some college classes can start as
early as 7 am, so if we get enough people at PAS interested in providing scopes,
we may be able to set up at PVCC Blk Mtn. I don't want to contact Loretta until
I see if there is enough PAS interest. Right now it looks like Don and I are 2
scopes
for Jan 29th, but it would be best if we had 5 scopes, one on each planet.
Also, we could do another day, but the 29th is convenient for those of us doing
the
solar event that morning at PVCC Blk Mtn. Sam
-----Original Message-----
From: Don Boyd <azphotog@xxxxxxxxx>
To: pasmembers <pasmembers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Fri, Jan 22, 2016 4:47 pm
Subject: [pasmembers] Re: 5 planets at dawn
Check and see if PVCC will allow us on campus that early. If I am getting up
early anyway...
On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 3:45 PM, Redacted sender insanas for DMARC
<dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Is anyone interested in having a short star party before dawn in the next week
so 5 planets can be seen through telescopes?
Since some of us are going to be at PVCC Blk Mountain Friday Jan 29th at 8:30
am, why not go nuts and meet there a few hours earlier
to show the 5 planets. If PVCC Blk Mtn won't let us on campus that early, maybe
we can meet at Mike's place, only a few miles away.
We could open this up to the public and do a press release, or, forget the
whole thing and sleep in. Any thoughts. Sam
