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Any one interested in doing this?

Sent via Gmail from David Young

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Date: Thu, Jan 1, 2015 at 11:02 PM
Subject: Cub Scout Blue & Gold
To: askc_powell_reservations@...


 We are planning our Blue & Gold Banquet for February and I'm interested to
know what you charge to send a guest speaker out to our location. Our theme
is Indoor Camping. But, since our Cub Scout aged boys don't camp with the
pack, we rarely have occasion to talk about the sky and the constellations.
I'd be open to indoor program suggestions on that topic for boys age 8-10
and their families. And, probably no longer than 35 minutes.

Our event is Thursday, 2/19 with a start time about 6:30pm.

Thank you,

      Cubmaster
Pack 3648

I think this Pack is in Kansas by the number, but any idea what part of town? Joe _______________________________________________________________________________

Joseph S. Wright

Cell Phone:  (913) 208-0924

Operations Manager, Warkoczewski Observatory-UMKC

Vice-President, Astronomical Society of Kansas City
Solar System Ambassador, NASA/JPL Volunteer Program
Girl Scouts of NE Kansas-NW Missouri  Aerospace/Astronomy/Weather S.T.E.M. Specialist
      From: "David Young youngmdavid@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com>
 To: "ASKC@yahoogroups.com" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> 
 Sent: Friday, January 2, 2015 1:10 AM
 Subject: [ASKC] Fwd: Cub Scout Blue & Gold
   
    Any one interested in doing this? 
Sent via Gmail from David Young
---------- Forwarded message ----------

Date: Thu, Jan 1, 2015 at 11:02 PM
Subject: Cub Scout Blue & Gold
To: askc_powell_reservations@...


  We are planning our Blue & Gold Banquet for February and I'm interested to know what you charge to send a guest speaker out to our location. Our theme is Indoor Camping. But, since our Cub Scout aged boys don't camp with the pack, we rarely have occasion to talk about the sky and the constellations. I'd be open to indoor program suggestions on that  topic for boys age 8-10 and their families. And, probably no longer than 35 minutes.
 
 Our event is Thursday, 2/19 with a start time about 6:30pm.
 
 Thank you,
 
      Cubmaster
 Pack 3648
  
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Where is this meeting?   And… are they just wanting a program on astronomy in general?

 

Jackie B.

 

From: ASKC@yahoogroups.com [mailto:ASKC@yahoogroups.com] 
Sent: Friday, January 02, 2015 1:10 AM
To: ASKC@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [ASKC] Fwd: Cub Scout Blue & Gold

 

  

Any one interested in doing this? 




Sent via Gmail from David Young

 

---------- Forwarded message ----------

Date: Thu, Jan 1, 2015 at 11:02 PM
Subject: Cub Scout Blue & Gold
To: askc_powell_reservations@...



We are planning our Blue & Gold Banquet for February and I'm interested to know what you charge to send a guest speaker out to our location. Our theme is Indoor Camping. But, since our Cub Scout aged boys don't camp with the pack, we rarely have occasion to talk about the sky and the constellations. I'd be open to indoor program suggestions on that topic for boys age 8-10 and their families. And, probably no longer than 35 minutes.

Our event is Thursday, 2/19 with a start time about 6:30pm.

Thank you,

      Cubmaster
Pack 3648

 

These are probably worth the time to browse through, Some pretty fun and cool pictures. The best 24 Astrophotos of 2014 as chosen by the Photo Editors at Huffington Post. Couple seem familiar to me...
 

 Enjoy!!
 

 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/28/astrophotography-2014_n_6377550.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/28/astrophotography-2014_n_6377550.html

 

 

 

Congrats, David --  One of yours is the first!

 

Jackie B.

 

From: ASKC@yahoogroups.com [mailto:ASKC@yahoogroups.com] 
Sent: Friday, January 02, 2015 10:06 AM
To: ASKC@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [ASKC] 24 Of The Most Awe-Inspiring Astrophotos Of 2014 at Huffington Post

 

  

These are probably worth the time to browse through, Some pretty fun and cool pictures. The best 24 Astrophotos of 2014 as chosen by the Photo Editors at Huffington Post. Couple seem familiar to me...

 

Enjoy!!

 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/28/astrophotography-2014_n_6377550.html

 

 

 

Nice company you're keeping. And, of course, your's stand out in the crowd.
Marcia

On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 10:06 AM, david.lane07@... [ASKC] <
ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

>
>
> These are probably worth the time to browse through, Some pretty fun and
> cool pictures. The best 24 Astrophotos of 2014 as chosen by the Photo
> Editors at Huffington Post. Couple seem familiar to me...
>
>
> Enjoy!!
>
>
>
> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/28/astrophotography-2014_n_6377550.html
>
>
>
>
>  
>

I have emailed her asking where the event will be. I'll post the info when
I get an answer.


Sent via Gmail from David Young

On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 9:34 AM, Joseph Wright jos.wright@... [ASKC] <
ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

>
>
> I think this Pack is in Kansas by the number, but any idea what part of
> town?
>
> Joe
>
> _______________________________________________________________________________
>
>
> Joseph S. Wright
>
> Cell Phone:  (913) 208-0924
>
> Operations Manager, Warkoczewski Observatory-UMKC
>
> Vice-President, Astronomical Society of Kansas City
> Solar System Ambassador, NASA/JPL Volunteer Program
> Girl Scouts of NE Kansas-NW Missouri  Aerospace/Astronomy/Weather S.T.E.M.
> Specialist
>
>   ------------------------------
>  *From:* "David Young youngmdavid@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com>
> *To:* "ASKC@yahoogroups.com" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com>
> *Sent:* Friday, January 2, 2015 1:10 AM
> *Subject:* [ASKC] Fwd: Cub Scout Blue & Gold
>
>
>  Any one interested in doing this?
>
> Sent via Gmail from David Young
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>
> Date: Thu, Jan 1, 2015 at 11:02 PM
> Subject: Cub Scout Blue & Gold
> To: askc_powell_reservations@...
>
>
>  We are planning our Blue & Gold Banquet for February and I'm interested
> to know what you charge to send a guest speaker out to our location. Our
> theme is Indoor Camping. But, since our Cub Scout aged boys don't camp with
> the pack, we rarely have occasion to talk about the sky and the
> constellations. I'd be open to indoor program suggestions on that topic for
> boys age 8-10 and their families. And, probably no longer than 35 minutes.
>
> Our event is Thursday, 2/19 with a start time about 6:30pm.
>
> Thank you,
>
>       Cubmaster
> Pack 3648
>
>
>
>   
>

Location for event added to the bottom of the note.

Sent via Gmail from David Young


Date: Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 1:12 PM
Subject: Re: Cub Scout Blue & Gold
To: David Young <youngmdavid@...>

We are planning our Blue & Gold Banquet for February and I'm interested to
know what you charge to send a guest speaker out to our location. Our theme
is Indoor Camping. But, since our Cub Scout aged boys don't camp with the
pack, we rarely have occasion to talk about the sky and the constellations.
I'd be open to indoor program suggestions on that topic for boys age 8-10
and their families. And, probably no longer than 35 minutes.

Our event is Thursday, 2/19 with a start time about 6:30pm.

 We meet at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints located at
21515 West 101st Street, Lenexa 66220

I need to present my plan to the committee this week. What do you usually
charge non-profits?

On 1/2/15, 1:11 AM, David Young wrote:

 I will ask for a volunteer. Where is your event?


 Sent via Gmail from David Young

On Thu, Jan 1, 2015 at 11:02 PM, Kammi Bean <kammifromkansas@...>
wrote:

>  We are planning our Blue & Gold Banquet for February and I'm interested
> to know what you charge to send a guest speaker out to our location. Our
> theme is Indoor Camping. But, since our Cub Scout aged boys don't camp with
> the pack, we rarely have occasion to talk about the sky and the
> constellations. I'd be open to indoor program suggestions on that topic for
> boys age 8-10 and their families. And, probably no longer than 35 minutes.
>
> Our event is Thursday, 2/19 with a start time about 6:30pm.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Kammi Bean
> Cubmaster
> Pack 3648
>

OK.

"Jackie Beucher m31@everestkc.net [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
>  
>
>My ASKC Friends…  I have just spent most of two days cleaning up my Outlook.   I had over 20,000 emails in my In-Box.
>
> 
>
>Many of you emailed me and never got an answer, and I am so sorry for that.   Many messages got buried in lots of advertising and junk mail.
>
> 
>
>(Since some messages to me were up to two years old, I didn’t think you would want an answer.)
>
> 
>
>My New Year’s resolution is to not let that happen again!
>
> 
>
> 
>
>Have a Happy New Year!
>
> 
>
>Jackie
>
> 
>
>Jackie Beucher
>
>11305 King St.
>
>Overland Park, KS.   66210
>
>M31@everestkc.net
>
>Home:  913-469-0135
>
>Cell:  913-522-8799
>
> 
>
>
>
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---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: msral.info <msral.info@caasastro.org>
Date: Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 9:00 AM
Subject: Mid-States Regional Astronomical League Conference, Little Rock,
AR - Presentations
To: msral.info@..., jamesbrucemcmath@...


Dear Fellow Astronomy Club Leader;

The Central Arkansas Astronomical Society (CAAS) will be hosting the 2015
Mid-States Regional Astronomical Conference, at
the University of Arkansas Little Rock Campus, May 29th – 31st.  I write to
solicit your support in making this conference a
success for the benefit of amateur astronomers in the region and nearby
states.

As currently conceived, the conference will begin Friday evening with
traditional Pisces Fry followed by a remote visit to
CAAS’s robotic observatory facilities.  Saturday will bring amateur and
professional presentations, capped by a banquet.
The conference will conclude following Sunday morning workshops.

While we have already lined up a number of professional presentations, we
are most interested in soliciting amateur
presenters and workshop leaders. Presentations are welcome on any astronomy
related topic.  Regarding the Sunday
workshops the topics considered so far (but we are open to others) are
imaging and image processing, variable star
observation and photometry, and a club leadership round table where club
leaders can share ideas.

We would like to hear from any of your members who might be interested in
making a presentation on Saturday and/or
who may be interested in helping with or attending a workshop on any
topic.  Those interested can respond to the “from”
email above. The final workshop topics will be determined by the feedback
we get.

Please forward this to your email list or otherwise bring this to the
attention of your membership.  In the later case be sure
and provide the above email address for inquiries and responses.  In
addition please advise on whether you would be
interested in participating in the club leadership roundtable.

Thanks

Bruce McMath Co-Chair MSRAL 2015



-- 
Clear skies,

Gary Pittman

Just returned from the dss. The lock is currently not operating for the gate. I will get down there this week and either replace the lock or see if it is just frozen. Before I get a ton of shoulda dones- yes, I tried tapping on it, rolling the dials, heating it in my hand, pouring hot liquid into/onto it, banging it. I did not have a lighter or torch but I will be returning with both and bolt cutters and a hack saw and a replacement lock for which-ever situation I am looking at. IF I replace the lock the combination will NOT change. So until I can get down there later this week, we are locked out of the dss unless you want to park and walk in a little. 

Darrick
 

​Nice story in the Sedalia Democrat newspaper about Rick Owens and his
Rolling Hills Observatory.​  He also gave the ASKC a plug.

http://www.sedaliademocrat.com/news/home_top-news-photo_gallery/50930257/In-a-galaxy-far-far-away

​Grant Miller
Warrensburg​

Thanks for the lead Grant. It was a nice article.

Sent via Gmail from David Young

On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 3:55 PM, Grant Miller mllrgrnt@... [ASKC] <
ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

>
>
> ​Nice story in the Sedalia Democrat newspaper about Rick Owens and his
> Rolling Hills Observatory.​  He also gave the ASKC a plug.
>
>
> http://www.sedaliademocrat.com/news/home_top-news-photo_gallery/50930257/In-a-galaxy-far-far-away
>
> ​Grant Miller
> Warrensburg​
>
>  
>

Very nice article. Thanks for the heads up Grant.

Gary Pittman

On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 3:55 PM, Grant Miller mllrgrnt@... [ASKC] <
ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

>
>
> ​Nice story in the Sedalia Democrat newspaper about Rick Owens and his
> Rolling Hills Observatory.​  He also gave the ASKC a plug.
>
>
> http://www.sedaliademocrat.com/news/home_top-news-photo_gallery/50930257/In-a-galaxy-far-far-away
>
> ​Grant Miller
> Warrensburg​
>
>  
>



-- 
Clear skies,

Gary Pittman

David--Hope you and Marcia are over the crud.  We went to see Unbroken after the drop-off. It was very good.  

 Gary--I found out about the article because I contacted Rick about your post for astro-photographer talkers at the Mid States. He talked like he might attend as a Vendor (only?).
 

 Grant

Very nice article about Rick. It is now in our ASKC archives. Tom J Martinez
http://tomjmartinez.blogspot.com/ 

     On Sunday, January 4, 2015 3:55 PM, "Grant Miller mllrgrnt@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
   

     ​Nice story in the Sedalia Democrat newspaper about Rick Owens and his Rolling Hills Observatory.​  He also gave the ASKC a plug.
http://www.sedaliademocrat.com/news/home_top-news-photo_gallery/50930257/In-a-galaxy-far-far-away
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FYI: If you don't know, there is a triple shadow transit of Jupiter's moons on the night of January 23rd.  These are pretty neat to watch. Search and download Stellarium for a preview.  This excellent, FREE software package shows the transit. http://www.mnastro.org/event/triple-shadow-transit/ Joe _______________________________________________________________________________

Joseph S. Wright

Cell Phone:  (913) 208-0924

Operations Manager, Warkoczewski Observatory-UMKC

Vice-President, Astronomical Society of Kansas City
Solar System Ambassador, NASA/JPL Volunteer Program
Girl Scouts of NE Kansas-NW Missouri  Aerospace/Astronomy/Weather S.T.E.M. Specialist

hmmmm. Should we schedule a member night at Powell? That is just after new
moon with moonset at 9:38. Great time to view Comet Lovejoy too.

Sent via Gmail from David Young

On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 4:59 PM, Joseph Wright jos.wright@... [ASKC] <
ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

>
>
> FYI:
>
> If you don't know, there is a triple shadow transit of Jupiter's moons on
> the night of January 23rd.  These are pretty neat to watch.
>
> Search and download Stellarium for a preview.  This excellent, FREE
> software package shows the transit.
>
> http://www.mnastro.org/event/triple-shadow-transit/
>
> Joe
>
> _______________________________________________________________________________
>
>
> Joseph S. Wright
>
> Cell Phone:  (913) 208-0924
>
> Operations Manager, Warkoczewski Observatory-UMKC
>
> Vice-President, Astronomical Society of Kansas City
> Solar System Ambassador, NASA/JPL Volunteer Program
> Girl Scouts of NE Kansas-NW Missouri  Aerospace/Astronomy/Weather S.T.E.M.
> Specialist
>
>  
>

Yes, That’d be fun, and a great opportunity for key-holder-wanna-be’s to practice….

 

Jason.

 

From: ASKC@yahoogroups.com [mailto:ASKC@yahoogroups.com] 
Sent: Monday, January 05, 2015 5:02 PM
To: ASKC@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [ASKC] Triple Transit Reminder

 






hmmmm. Should we schedule a member night at Powell? That is just after new moon with moonset at 9:38. Great time to view Comet Lovejoy too.




Sent via Gmail from David Young

 

On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 4:59 PM, Joseph Wright jos.wright@... <mailto:jos.wright@...>  [ASKC] <ASKC@yahoogroups.com <mailto:ASKC@yahoogroups.com> > wrote:

  

FYI:

 

If you don't know, there is a triple shadow transit of Jupiter's moons on the night of January 23rd.  These are pretty neat to watch.

 

Search and download Stellarium for a preview.  This excellent, FREE software package shows the transit.

 

http://www.mnastro.org/event/triple-shadow-transit/

 

Joe

 

_______________________________________________________________________________ 

Joseph S. Wright 

Cell Phone:  (913) 208-0924 <tel:%28913%29%20208-0924>  

Operations Manager, Warkoczewski Observatory-UMKC 

Vice-President, Astronomical Society of Kansas City 
Solar System Ambassador, NASA/JPL Volunteer Program 
Girl Scouts of NE Kansas-NW Missouri  Aerospace/Astronomy/Weather S.T.E.M. Specialist

 

I just tried going to the AL site and it states it is under maintenance.  Oddly though, it asked for a user name and password.   Joe _______________________________________________________________________________

Joseph S. Wright

Cell Phone:  (913) 208-0924

Operations Manager, Warkoczewski Observatory-UMKC

Vice-President, Astronomical Society of Kansas City
Solar System Ambassador, NASA/JPL Volunteer Program
Girl Scouts of NE Kansas-NW Missouri  Aerospace/Astronomy/Weather S.T.E.M. Specialist

Hello to the group from Stuart and Susan Riley. Slowly, S-L-O-W-L-Y we are getting ourselves readied to move back to KC and be a permanent (read that as a helping) part to the club.

I am back on the yahoo groups, so that I can read more of the events and activities, so that when we finally arrive, we can help.  I know some are asking when, if ever?  Well, soon. I will be finding a job first (on-going) and then I will be in KC. Susan and family will join me in late spring, as we let loose the grips of living in Northwest Arkansas.

Hopefully, I can bring some warmer weather.

 Stuart Riley

Happy to hear you'll be back soon.


Roger Gruenke
Astro@...


At 08:57 1/6/2015, you wrote:
>
>
>Hello to the group from Stuart and Susan Riley. Slowly, S-L-O-W-L-Y 
>we are getting ourselves readied to move back to KC and be a 
>permanent (read that as a helping) part to the club.
>
>I am back on the yahoo groups, so that I can read more of the events 
>and activities, so that when we finally arrive, we can help.  I know 
>some are asking when, if ever?  Well, soon. I will be finding a job 
>first (on-going) and then I will be in KC. Susan and family will 
>join me in late spring, as we let loose the grips of living in 
>Northwest Arkansas.
>
>Hopefully, I can bring some warmer weather.
>
>Stuart Riley

don't know about being a wanna---be. don't really want to be anything.  if you need help, I will be there.  
       From: "'Jason' jason@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com>
 To: ASKC@yahoogroups.com 
 Sent: Tuesday, January 6, 2015 7:33 AM
 Subject: RE: [ASKC] Triple Transit Reminder
   
    Yes, That’d be fun, and a great opportunity for key-holder-wanna-be’s to practice….  Jason.  

From: ASKC@yahoogroups.com [mailto:ASKC@yahoogroups.com] 
Sent: Monday, January 05, 2015 5:02 PM
To: ASKC@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [ASKC] Triple Transit Reminder  


hmmmm. Should we schedule a member night at Powell? That is just after new moon with moonset at 9:38. Great time to view Comet Lovejoy too.
Sent via Gmail from David Young  On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 4:59 PM, Joseph Wright jos.wright@... [ASKC] <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
  FYI: If you don't know, there is a triple shadow transit of Jupiter's moons on the night of January 23rd.  These are pretty neat to watch. Search and download Stellarium for a preview.  This excellent, FREE software package shows the transit. http://www.mnastro.org/event/triple-shadow-transit/ Joe _______________________________________________________________________________ 

Joseph S. Wright 

Cell Phone:  (913) 208-0924 

Operations Manager, Warkoczewski Observatory-UMKC 

Vice-President, Astronomical Society of Kansas City 
Solar System Ambassador, NASA/JPL Volunteer Program 
Girl Scouts of NE Kansas-NW Missouri  Aerospace/Astronomy/Weather S.T.E.M. Specialist  



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here's a run down for the night of Jan 23: 
  
21:12  First shadow appears on Jupiter's face 
22:34  Second shadow appears on Jupiter's face 
22:53  Io starts transit across Jupiter 
23:50  the second shadow, moving faster catches up and merges with the first shadow 
00:15  Callisto starts transit across Jupiter 
00:18  Io covers Callisto's shadow 
00:27  Third shadow appears on Jupiter's face 
00:53  First shadow moves off Jupiter 
01:06  Europa starts transit across Jupiter 
01:14  Io ends transit 
02:02  Second shadow moves off Jupiter 
03:23  Third shadow moves off Jupiter 
04:02  Callisto ends transit 
05:07  Europa ends transit 
  
So: 
- there will be 3 shadows on Jupiter for 26 minutes (00:27-00:53) 
- and there will be 3 moons transiting for 8 minutes (01:06-01:14) 

----- Original Message -----

From: "richard schoenberger rrschoenberger@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> 
To: ASKC@yahoogroups.com 
Sent: Tuesday, January 6, 2015 4:24:33 PM 
Subject: Re: [ASKC] Triple Transit Reminder 

  

don't know about being a wanna---be. don't really want to be anything.  if you need help, I will be there.  
  

From: "'Jason' jason@tsrof.com [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> 
To: ASKC@yahoogroups.com 
Sent: Tuesday, January 6, 2015 7:33 AM 
Subject: RE: [ASKC] Triple Transit Reminder 

  

Yes, That’d be fun, and a great opportunity for key-holder-wanna-be’s to practice…. 
  
Jason. 
  


From: ASKC@yahoogroups.com [mailto:ASKC@yahoogroups.com] 
Sent: Monday, January 05, 2015 5:02 PM 
To: ASKC@yahoogroups.com 
Subject: Re: [ASKC] Triple Transit Reminder 
  



hmmmm. Should we schedule a member night at Powell? That is just after new moon with moonset at 9:38. Great time to view Comet Lovejoy too. 

Sent via Gmail from David Young 
  
On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 4:59 PM, Joseph Wright jos.wright@... [ASKC] < ASKC@yahoogroups.com > wrote: 



  
FYI: 
  
If you don't know, there is a triple shadow transit of Jupiter's moons on the night of January 23rd.  These are pretty neat to watch. 
  
Search and download Stellarium for a preview.  This excellent, FREE software package shows the transit. 
  
http://www.mnastro.org/event/triple-shadow-transit/ 
  
Joe 
  
_______________________________________________________________________________ 

Joseph S. Wright 

Cell Phone:   (913) 208-0924 

Operations Manager, Warkoczewski Observatory-UMKC 

Vice-President, Astronomical Society of Kansas City 
Solar System Ambassador, NASA/JPL Volunteer Program 
Girl Scouts of NE Kansas-NW Missouri  Aerospace/Astronomy/Weather S.T.E.M. Specialist 
  











 

I had the same experience, in trying to read about ALCON in July.    I did a search for it, got a link to a spot within the League web site, and it worked!   Unfortunately, nothing much is really solidified for it yet, with no registration.    I am going this year, for the first time in many years…

 

Jackie B

 

From: ASKC@yahoogroups.com [mailto:ASKC@yahoogroups.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2015 7:57 AM
To: ASKC On Yahoogroups
Subject: [ASKC] Astronomical League Web Site

 

  

I just tried going to the AL site and it states it is under maintenance.  Oddly though, it asked for a user name and password.  

 

Joe

 

_______________________________________________________________________________ 

Joseph S. Wright 

Cell Phone:  (913) 208-0924 

Operations Manager, Warkoczewski Observatory-UMKC 

Vice-President, Astronomical Society of Kansas City 
Solar System Ambassador, NASA/JPL Volunteer Program 
Girl Scouts of NE Kansas-NW Missouri  Aerospace/Astronomy/Weather S.T.E.M. Specialist

More complete information should, be, posted on the ALCON 2015 website
around the end of the month The December Reflector had a good overall
summary.

Today's, website page was due  to some website housekeeping being done.

Carroll Iorg
Media Officer & Convention Coordinator
Astronomical League, Inc.
9201 Ward Parkway, #100
Kansas City. MO. 64114
www.astroleague.org
816 333 7759
carroll.iorg@...
On Jan 6, 2015 6:53 PM, "Jackie Beucher m31@everestkc.net [ASKC]" <
ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

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>
> I had the same experience, in trying to read about ALCON in July.    I did
> a search for it, got a link to a spot within the League web site, and it
> worked!   Unfortunately, nothing much is really solidified for it yet, with
> no registration.    I am going this year, for the first time in many years…
>
>
>
> Jackie B
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>
>
> *From:* ASKC@yahoogroups.com [mailto:ASKC@yahoogroups.com]
> *Sent:* Tuesday, January 06, 2015 7:57 AM
> *To:* ASKC On Yahoogroups
> *Subject:* [ASKC] Astronomical League Web Site
>
>
>
>
>
> I just tried going to the AL site and it states it is under maintenance.
> Oddly though, it asked for a user name and password.
>
>
>
> Joe
>
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>
> _______________________________________________________________________________
>
>
> Joseph S. Wright
>
> Cell Phone:  (913) 208-0924
>
> Operations Manager, Warkoczewski Observatory-UMKC
>
> Vice-President, Astronomical Society of Kansas City
> Solar System Ambassador, NASA/JPL Volunteer Program
> Girl Scouts of NE Kansas-NW Missouri  Aerospace/Astronomy/Weather S.T.E.M.
> Specialist
>
>  
>

For those who may be interested, I had an interview on Comet Lovejoy with a
reporter from WIBM 580 AM from Topeka today and also was allowed to give a
pretty good plug for Powell and the ASKC.

 

If you can't pick it up on the radio for whatever reason and you actually
WANT to hear me pontificate publicly, go to:

 

http://www.wibwnewsnow.com/am580/

 

and click on the WIBW NEWS icon at the upper right side of the webpage for
internet radio.  The interview should be played just after the news which
occurs at the top of the hour, probably just in the morning programs, from
7:00 AM until 11:00 AM or possibly noon.

 

Rick Henderson

The first school science night of the year is coming up.

We've been doing this school event for years. Its between Nall and Roe on
95th street.  This will not be a late night. I have a couple of small
telescopes you can borrow or you can bring your own to set up outside or
inside in the event of nasty weather. I will have meteorites. You can help
inside or outside, with or without equipment or displays.

If you would like to help out, please drop me a note.

Trailwood School Science Night
5101 W 95th St
Overland Park, KS 66207
5:30-7:30


Sent via Gmail from David Young

What's the date?  Evan and I are interested in helping.  Evan even started his own meteorite collection to bring to these events.
 -Robynn and Evan Andracsek

Yes, please let's have a member's night! Astronomy plus staying up until Midnight? Evan will be so into that!
 -Robynn and Evan Andracsek

I don't know if the reporter got the information wrong, but I've listened to WIBW 580 AM radio most of this morning and haven't heard the Comet Lovejoy spot.

To quote Popeye, ,"I've had all I can stands, I can't stands no more."

Back to KANU.

Rick Henderson

Sent on the new Sprint Network from my Samsung Galaxy S®4.

<div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: "randracsek@burnsmcd.com [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> </div><div>Date:01/07/2015  7:38 AM  (GMT-06:00) </div><div>To: ASKC@yahoogroups.com </div><div>Subject: [ASKC] Re: Science night </div><div>
</div>What's the date?  Evan and I are interested in helping.  Evan even started his own meteorite collection to bring to these events.

-Robynn and Evan Andracsek

Good info Scott. Thanks. You're the man!! 
Jim 

----- Original Message -----

From: "s.kranz1@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> 
To: "ASKC" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> 
Sent: Tuesday, January 6, 2015 6:19:10 PM 
Subject: Re: [ASKC] Triple Transit Reminder 



here's a run down for the night of Jan 23: 
  
21:12  First shadow appears on Jupiter's face 
22:34  Second shadow appears on Jupiter's face 
22:53  Io starts transit across Jupiter 
23:50  the second shadow, moving faster catches up and merges with the first shadow 
00:15  Callisto starts transit across Jupiter 
00:18  Io covers Callisto's shadow 
00:27  Third shadow appears on Jupiter's face 
00:53  First shadow moves off Jupiter 
01:06  Europa starts transit across Jupiter 
01:14  Io ends transit 
02:02  Second shadow moves off Jupiter 
03:23  Third shadow moves off Jupiter 
04:02  Callisto ends transit 
05:07  Europa ends transit 
  
So: 
- there will be 3 shadows on Jupiter for 26 minutes (00:27-00:53) 
- and there will be 3 moons transiting for 8 minutes (01:06-01:14) 

----- Original Message -----

From: "richard schoenberger rrschoenberger@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> 
To: ASKC@...m 
Sent: Tuesday, January 6, 2015 4:24:33 PM 
Subject: Re: [ASKC] Triple Transit Reminder 

  

don't know about being a wanna---be. don't really want to be anything.  if you need help, I will be there.  
  

From: "'Jason' jason@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> 
To: ASKC@yahoogroups.com 
Sent: Tuesday, January 6, 2015 7:33 AM 
Subject: RE: [ASKC] Triple Transit Reminder 

  

Yes, That’d be fun, and a great opportunity for key-holder-wanna-be’s to practice…. 
  
Jason. 
  


From: ASKC@yahoogroups.com [mailto:ASKC@yahoogroups.com] 
Sent: Monday, January 05, 2015 5:02 PM 
To: ASKC@yahoogroups.com 
Subject: Re: [ASKC] Triple Transit Reminder 
  



hmmmm. Should we schedule a member night at Powell? That is just after new moon with moonset at 9:38. Great time to view Comet Lovejoy too. 

Sent via Gmail from David Young 
  
On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 4:59 PM, Joseph Wright jos.wright@yahoo.com [ASKC] < ASKC@yahoogroups.com > wrote: 



  
FYI: 
  
If you don't know, there is a triple shadow transit of Jupiter's moons on the night of January 23rd.  These are pretty neat to watch. 
  
Search and download Stellarium for a preview.  This excellent, FREE software package shows the transit. 
  
http://www.mnastro.org/event/triple-shadow-transit/ 
  
Joe 
  
_______________________________________________________________________________ 

Joseph S. Wright 

Cell Phone:   (913) 208-0924 

Operations Manager, Warkoczewski Observatory-UMKC 

Vice-President, Astronomical Society of Kansas City 
Solar System Ambassador, NASA/JPL Volunteer Program 
Girl Scouts of NE Kansas-NW Missouri  Aerospace/Astronomy/Weather S.T.E.M. Specialist 
  















 

Gonna have to stay up past midnight for sure!


Sent from inside the TARDIS

<div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: "randracsek@burnsmcd.com [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> </div><div>Date:01/07/2015  07:42  (GMT-06:00) </div><div>To: ASKC@yahoogroups.com </div><div>Subject: Re: [ASKC] Triple Transit Reminder </div><div>
</div>Yes, please let's have a member's night! Astronomy plus staying up until Midnight? Evan will be so into that!

-Robynn and Evan Andracsek

I'm scheduled to be at ALCon 2015 in Las Cruces, N.M.  during the start of
my duty week of July 11-17, 2015.

 

I need to switch duty weeks with another keyholder.

 

Thanks!

 

Carroll Iorg

I looked up the word wanna-be,  it means a person who wants to learn how to do stuff, but lacks the smarts to do what he or she is trying to learn.  I know I am not as smart as some, but I did have a 35 year and 4 month trying to be a over the road o/o. and in that time I saw a lot of wanna-be wheel holders, who thought they were truck drivers.  so if the thought is,  if there are people who want to be key holders,  but lack the smarts to be a key holder,,,  alas, a wanna- be.  then maybe I don't wanna-be one.    peace be with you..  r. schoenberger

don't sell yourself short stargazer...you are plenty smart....
 

Could we please do a better job of using the Subject (RE:) line in the heading of message. Just saying Science Night without include the institutional name sucks and is confusing. Joe _______________________________________________________________________________

Joseph S. Wright

Cell Phone:  (913) 208-0924

Operations Manager, Warkoczewski Observatory-UMKC

Vice-President, Astronomical Society of Kansas City
Solar System Ambassador, NASA/JPL Volunteer Program
Girl Scouts of NE Kansas-NW Missouri  Aerospace/Astronomy/Weather S.T.E.M. Specialist

The Trailwood school calendar has "Family Fun Science Night on Jan. 22nd. Don't get this school confused with Trailwoods in KCMO.  Just and FYI.  Joe _______________________________________________________________________________

Joseph S. Wright

Cell Phone:  (913) 208-0924

Operations Manager, Warkoczewski Observatory-UMKC

Vice-President, Astronomical Society of Kansas City
Solar System Ambassador, NASA/JPL Volunteer Program
Girl Scouts of NE Kansas-NW Missouri  Aerospace/Astronomy/Weather S.T.E.M. Specialist

Sorry, its on the calendar for January 22. I know people don't actually
look at the calendar and I should have put the date in the message. I can't
help it, I'm old:-)

Sent via Gmail from David Young

On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 7:38 AM, randracsek@... [ASKC] <
ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

>
>
> What's the date?  Evan and I are interested in helping.  Evan even started
> his own meteorite collection to bring to these events.
>
> -Robynn and Evan Andracsek
>
>  
>

Cool. Roger is just about to finish up the movable stage gizmo. Now I have
to make up a little tray with adjustable mounts so that the meteorites and
tektites are all the same level so they are all in focus. Must ponder and
sort through a bunch of ideas to figure out the best way to mount them so
little fingers can't fiddle:-)

Sent via Gmail from David Young

On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 7:38 AM, randracsek@... [ASKC] <
ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

>
>
> What's the date?  Evan and I are interested in helping.  Evan even started
> his own meteorite collection to bring to these events.
>
> -Robynn and Evan Andracsek
>
>  
>

Well, I was looking for the dates and times of the various events when they got mixed up on my calendar.  This is happens in some of the other groups I also belong.   At least it was on the same subject.  It really gets bad when people change topics and don't change the subject line. If these cold temps keep up, I am renting a portable hot tub for the transit. Joe _______________________________________________________________________________

Joseph S. Wright

Cell Phone:  (913) 208-0924

Operations Manager, Warkoczewski Observatory-UMKC

Vice-President, Astronomical Society of Kansas City
Solar System Ambassador, NASA/JPL Volunteer Program
Girl Scouts of NE Kansas-NW Missouri  Aerospace/Astronomy/Weather S.T.E.M. Specialist
      From: "David Young youngmdavid@gmail.com [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com>
 To: "ASKC@yahoogroups.com" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> 
 Sent: Wednesday, January 7, 2015 3:07 PM
 Subject: Re: [ASKC] Re: Science night
   
    Sorry, its on the calendar for January 22. I know people don't actually look at the calendar and I should have put the date in the message. I can't help it, I'm old:-)
Sent via Gmail from David Young


On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 7:38 AM, randracsek@... [ASKC] <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

     What's the date?  Evan and I are interested in helping.  Evan even started his own meteorite collection to bring to these events.-Robynn and Evan Andracsek
   

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Yup, that's our night. I included the address to avoid confusion but forgot
to put the date in for those that don't use the calendar. my bad

Sent via Gmail from David Young

On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 1:55 PM, Joseph Wright jos.wright@... [ASKC] <
ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

>
>
> The Trailwood school calendar has "Family Fun Science Night on Jan. 22nd.
>
> Don't get this school confused with Trailwoods in KCMO.
>
>
> Just and FYI.
>
>
> Joe
>
> _______________________________________________________________________________
>
>
> Joseph S. Wright
>
> Cell Phone:  (913) 208-0924
>
> Operations Manager, Warkoczewski Observatory-UMKC
>
> Vice-President, Astronomical Society of Kansas City
> Solar System Ambassador, NASA/JPL Volunteer Program
> Girl Scouts of NE Kansas-NW Missouri  Aerospace/Astronomy/Weather S.T.E.M.
> Specialist
>
>  
>

Well it should have read something more along the lines of "want to become"
then because I'm sure it was not intended to be demeaning. We need staff
members to be on teams even if they don't want to be full keyholders and
have duty pair nights. People can be a great help just staffing the gate or
helping with the 16" or bringing their own telescopes.  What we really need
is a couple of people each night at the gate to help the keyholder staff.
If we had two more non-keyholders each night they could rotate between the
telescope and the gate. Once the 30" is on a target it tends to stay there
for a while. The keyholder at the telescope  could use a break instead of
being stuck on the ladder or in the LCT for hours. All a person needs to do
it show people the eyepiece and give a brief description of what the scope
is aimed at. Easy peasy

All you need to be a keyholder is the ability to read the instruction
manual and actually practice or attend a training refresher at least once a
year. It's NOT rocket science. If you can pass a cdl test you can figure
out how to punch keys. Occasionally the thing gets messed up. If all else
fails and the computer program isn't working right, just do without it.
Leave the drive switch on at the base of the pier so it tracks, grab the
telescope and aim it at something you know how to find. We want to use the
hand controller to move the scope when ever possible but in an emergency
just grab the thing and move it. Most of us can find 3 or 4 things without
a star chart or computer. One a public night you will only get around to
two or three objects anyway. I aimed it by sighting down the rivets on one
of the edges for years before we put Telrads on the side. If a well driller
that can tear up a crowbar in a sand pile can figure out how to work it I
can't see how someone who ran their own business would have any trouble.

Sent via Gmail from David Young

On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 1:09 PM, rrschoenberger@... [ASKC] <
ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

>
>
> I looked up the word wanna-be,  it means a person who wants to learn how
> to do stuff, but lacks the smarts to do what he or she is trying to learn.
> I know I am not as smart as some, but I did have a 35 year and 4 month
> trying to be a over the road o/o. and in that time I saw a lot of wanna-be
> wheel holders, who thought they were truck drivers.  so if the thought is,
> if there are people who want to be key holders,  but lack the smarts to be
> a key holder,,,  alas, a wanna- be.  then maybe I don't wanna-be one.
> peace be with you..  r. schoenberger
>
>  
>

Yeh, names can be tricky.  My cousin asked what route was I taking to his mom's funeral in Dover.  Since she had always lived in Kansas I looked up Dover, KS, naturally  and said I-70 West towards Topeka. I got a goofy look and he asked, "why, you should be going through Buckner and Lexington."  Dover, MO.  I was very glad he asked.  It would have been a short funeral with just mom, Rita and I.   Joe   _______________________________________________________________________________

Joseph S. Wright

Cell Phone:  (913) 208-0924

Operations Manager, Warkoczewski Observatory-UMKC

Vice-President, Astronomical Society of Kansas City
Solar System Ambassador, NASA/JPL Volunteer Program
Girl Scouts of NE Kansas-NW Missouri  Aerospace/Astronomy/Weather S.T.E.M. Specialist
  
   

Evan and I definately want to get more involved in public nights.  Granted we come as a team and he is only 12, but hopefully we count as at least one full volunteer.  We just got assigned to Duty Team 4 (go team 4!) and can't wait to get started.
  
 -Evan and Robynn Andracsek

We would love more young volunteers.  Just think of the message this send to youth about astronomy.  Wouldn't it be great to have a whole sub-group of ASKCer's under 18! Joe _______________________________________________________________________________

Joseph S. Wright

Cell Phone:  (913) 208-0924

Operations Manager, Warkoczewski Observatory-UMKC

Vice-President, Astronomical Society of Kansas City
Solar System Ambassador, NASA/JPL Volunteer Program
Girl Scouts of NE Kansas-NW Missouri  Aerospace/Astronomy/Weather S.T.E.M. Specialist
      From: "randracsek@burnsmcd.com [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com>
 To: ASKC@yahoogroups.com 
 Sent: Wednesday, January 7, 2015 3:54 PM
 Subject: Re: [ASKC] wanna-be
   
    
Evan and I definately want to get more involved.  Yes, we come as a pair and he is only 12, but hopefully we count as at least one full volunteer.  We just got assigned to Duty Team 4 (go Team 4!)  and can't wait to get started working the public nights at both Powell and Warko. -Robynn Andracsek  #yiv9104308142 #yiv9104308142 -- #yiv9104308142ygrp-mkp {border:1px solid #d8d8d8;font-family:Arial;margin:10px 0;padding:0 10px;}#yiv9104308142 #yiv9104308142ygrp-mkp hr {border:1px solid #d8d8d8;}#yiv9104308142 #yiv9104308142ygrp-mkp #yiv9104308142hd {color:#628c2a;font-size:85%;font-weight:700;line-height:122%;margin:10px 0;}#yiv9104308142 #yiv9104308142ygrp-mkp #yiv9104308142ads {margin-bottom:10px;}#yiv9104308142 #yiv9104308142ygrp-mkp .yiv9104308142ad {padding:0 0;}#yiv9104308142 #yiv9104308142ygrp-mkp .yiv9104308142ad p {margin:0;}#yiv9104308142 #yiv9104308142ygrp-mkp .yiv9104308142ad a {color:#0000ff;text-decoration:none;}#yiv9104308142 #yiv9104308142ygrp-sponsor #yiv9104308142ygrp-lc 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what time  ?
       From: "David Young youngmdavid@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com>
 To: "ASKC@yahoogroups.com" <ASKC@...m> 
 Sent: Wednesday, January 7, 2015 3:13 PM
 Subject: Re: [ASKC] Science Night - Trailwood
   
    Yup, that's our night. I included the address to avoid confusion but forgot to put the date in for those that don't use the calendar. my bad
Sent via Gmail from David Young
On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 1:55 PM, Joseph Wright jos.wright@... [ASKC] <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

     The Trailwood school calendar has "Family Fun Science Night on Jan. 22nd. Don't get this school confused with Trailwoods in KCMO.  Just and FYI.  Joe _______________________________________________________________________________

Joseph S. Wright

Cell Phone:  (913) 208-0924

Operations Manager, Warkoczewski Observatory-UMKC

Vice-President, Astronomical Society of Kansas City
Solar System Ambassador, NASA/JPL Volunteer Program
Girl Scouts of NE Kansas-NW Missouri  Aerospace/Astronomy/Weather S.T.E.M. Specialist   

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Do they have the dates for the convention?  They could at least post the date if known.  It would be a great help for planning. Joe _______________________________________________________________________________

Joseph S. Wright

Cell Phone:  (913) 208-0924

Operations Manager, Warkoczewski Observatory-UMKC

Vice-President, Astronomical Society of Kansas City
Solar System Ambassador, NASA/JPL Volunteer Program
Girl Scouts of NE Kansas-NW Missouri  Aerospace/Astronomy/Weather S.T.E.M. Specialist
      From: "Carroll Iorg carroll.iorg@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com>
 To: ASKC@yahoogroups.com 
 Sent: Tuesday, January 6, 2015 8:28 PM
 Subject: RE: [ASKC] Astronomical League Web Site
   
    More complete information should, be, posted on the ALCON 2015 website around the end of the month The December Reflector had a good overall summary.Today's, website page was due  to some website housekeeping being done.Carroll Iorg
Media Officer & Convention Coordinator
Astronomical League, Inc.
9201 Ward Parkway, #100
Kansas City. MO. 64114
www.astroleague.org
816 333 7759
carroll.iorg@...

On Jan 6, 2015 6:53 PM, "Jackie Beucher m31@everestkc.net [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

     I had the same experience, in trying to read about ALCON in July.    I did a search for it, got a link to a spot within the League web site, and it worked!   Unfortunately, nothing much is really solidified for it yet, with no registration.    I am going this year, for the first time in many years… Jackie B From: ASKC@yahoogroups.com [mailto:ASKC@yahoogroups.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2015 7:57 AM
To: ASKC On Yahoogroups
Subject: [ASKC] Astronomical League Web Site   I just tried going to the AL site and it states it is under maintenance.  Oddly though, it asked for a user name and password.   Joe _______________________________________________________________________________ 

Joseph S. Wright 

Cell Phone:  (913) 208-0924 

Operations Manager, Warkoczewski Observatory-UMKC 

Vice-President, Astronomical Society of Kansas City 
Solar System Ambassador, NASA/JPL Volunteer Program 
Girl Scouts of NE Kansas-NW Missouri  Aerospace/Astronomy/Weather S.T.E.M. Specialist   
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Dates for Alcon 2015 are 7-6 thru 7-11, 2015.  The first two days  are
designated for side trips so convention attendees don't have to miss
presentations in order to go on the side trips, which will include the
Large Array, White Sands, etc.

Basic convention information was included in the December  Reflector, and
more extensive information will be available on the ALCON 2015 website in a
couple of weeks.

Carroll Iorg
Media Officer & Convention Coordinator
Astronomical League, Inc.
9201 Ward Parkway, #100
Kansas City. MO. 64114
www.astroleague.org
816 333 7759
carroll.iorg@...
On Jan 7, 2015 4:23 PM, "Joseph Wright jos.wright@... [ASKC]" <
ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

>
>
> Do they have the dates for the convention?  They could at least post the
> date if known.  It would be a great help for planning.
>
> Joe
>
> _______________________________________________________________________________
>
>
> Joseph S. Wright
>
> Cell Phone:  (913) 208-0924
>
> Operations Manager, Warkoczewski Observatory-UMKC
>
> Vice-President, Astronomical Society of Kansas City
> Solar System Ambassador, NASA/JPL Volunteer Program
> Girl Scouts of NE Kansas-NW Missouri  Aerospace/Astronomy/Weather S.T.E.M.
> Specialist
>
>   ------------------------------
>  *From:* "Carroll Iorg carroll.iorg@... [ASKC]" <
> ASKC@yahoogroups.com>
> *To:* ASKC@yahoogroups.com
> *Sent:* Tuesday, January 6, 2015 8:28 PM
> *Subject:* RE: [ASKC] Astronomical League Web Site
>
>
>  More complete information should, be, posted on the ALCON 2015 website
> around the end of the month The December Reflector had a good overall
> summary.
> Today's, website page was due  to some website housekeeping being done.
> Carroll Iorg
> Media Officer & Convention Coordinator
> Astronomical League, Inc.
> 9201 Ward Parkway, #100
> Kansas City. MO. 64114
> www.astroleague.org
> 816 333 7759
> carroll.iorg@...
>
>
> On Jan 6, 2015 6:53 PM, "Jackie Beucher m31@... [ASKC]" <
> ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
>
>
>  I had the same experience, in trying to read about ALCON in July.    I
> did a search for it, got a link to a spot within the League web site, and
> it worked!   Unfortunately, nothing much is really solidified for it yet,
> with no registration.    I am going this year, for the first time in many
> years…
>
> Jackie B
>
> *From:* ASKC@yahoogroups.com [mailto:ASKC@yahoogroups.com]
> *Sent:* Tuesday, January 06, 2015 7:57 AM
> *To:* ASKC On Yahoogroups
> *Subject:* [ASKC] Astronomical League Web Site
>
>
> I just tried going to the AL site and it states it is under maintenance.
> Oddly though, it asked for a user name and password.
>
> Joe
>
> _______________________________________________________________________________
>
>
> Joseph S. Wright
>
> Cell Phone:  (913) 208-0924
>
> Operations Manager, Warkoczewski Observatory-UMKC
>
> Vice-President, Astronomical Society of Kansas City
> Solar System Ambassador, NASA/JPL Volunteer Program
> Girl Scouts of NE Kansas-NW Missouri  Aerospace/Astronomy/Weather S.T.E.M.
> Specialist
>
>
>
>   
>

Thanks Carroll.  I'm jumbling dates and didn't have the Reflector at work.  Doesn't look like it fit into our schedule.  Crap!  Planning trip to NY.

Joe

Happy Connecting.  Sent from my Sprint Phone.


------ Original message------
From: Carroll Iorg carroll.iorg@gmail.com [ASKC]
Date: Wed, Jan 7, 2015 16:39
To: ASKC@yahoogroups.com;
Subject:Re: [ASKC] Astronomical League Web Site



Dates for Alcon 2015 are 7-6 thru 7-11, 2015.  The first two days  are designated for side trips so convention attendees don't have to miss presentations in order to go on the side trips, which will include the Large Array, White Sands, etc.
Basic convention information was included in the December  Reflector, and more extensive information will be available on the ALCON 2015 website in a couple of weeks.
Carroll Iorg
Media Officer & Convention Coordinator
Astronomical League, Inc.
9201 Ward Parkway, #100
Kansas City. MO. 64114
www.astroleague.org
816 333 7759
carroll.iorg@gmail.com
On Jan 7, 2015 4:23 PM, "Joseph Wright jos.wright@yahoo.com [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

Do they have the dates for the convention?  They could at least post the date if known.  It would be a great help for planning.

Joe


_______________________________________________________________________________

Joseph S. Wright

Cell Phone:  (913) 208-0924

Operations Manager, Warkoczewski Observatory-UMKC

Vice-President, Astronomical Society of Kansas City
Solar System Ambassador, NASA/JPL Volunteer Program
Girl Scouts of NE Kansas-NW Missouri  Aerospace/Astronomy/Weather S.T.E.M. Specialist

 
From: "Carroll Iorg carroll.iorg@gmail.com [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com>
To: ASKC@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, January 6, 2015 8:28 PM
Subject: RE: [ASKC] Astronomical League Web Site



More complete information should, be, posted on the ALCON 2015 website around the end of the month The December Reflector had a good overall summary.
Today's, website page was due  to some website housekeeping being done.
Carroll Iorg
Media Officer & Convention Coordinator
Astronomical League, Inc.
9201 Ward Parkway, #100
Kansas City. MO. 64114
www.astroleague.org
816 333 7759
carroll.iorg@gmail.com


On Jan 6, 2015 6:53 PM, "Jackie Beucher m31@everestkc.net [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:


I had the same experience, in trying to read about ALCON in July.    I did a search for it, got a link to a spot within the League web site, and it worked!   Unfortunately, nothing much is really solidified for it yet, with no registration.    I am going this year, for the first time in many years…

Jackie B

From: ASKC@yahoogroups.com [mailto:ASKC@yahoogroups.com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2015 7:57 AM
To: ASKC On Yahoogroups
Subject: [ASKC] Astronomical League Web Site


I just tried going to the AL site and it states it is under maintenance.  Oddly though, it asked for a user name and password. 

Joe

_______________________________________________________________________________

Joseph S. Wright

Cell Phone:  (913) 208-0924

Operations Manager, Warkoczewski Observatory-UMKC

Vice-President, Astronomical Society of Kansas City
Solar System Ambassador, NASA/JPL Volunteer Program
Girl Scouts of NE Kansas-NW Missouri  Aerospace/Astronomy/Weather S.T.E.M. Specialist









 
Posted by: Carroll Iorg <carroll.iorg@gmail.com>
 

Reply

I will be at Trailwood with a telescope or scopes.

John Fitzgerald



On Wednesday, January 7, 2015 3:13 PM, "Joseph Wright jos.wright@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
 


  
Well, I was looking for the dates and times of the various events when they got mixed up on my calendar.  This is happens in some of the other groups I also belong.  
 
At least it was on the same subject.  It really gets bad when people change topics and don't change the subject line.
 
If these cold temps keep up, I am renting a portable hot tub for the transit.
 
Joe
 
_______________________________________________________________________________ 

Joseph S. Wright 

Cell Phone:  (913) 208-0924 

Operations Manager, Warkoczewski Observatory-UMKC 

Vice-President, Astronomical Society of Kansas City 
Solar System Ambassador, NASA/JPL Volunteer Program 
Girl Scouts of NE Kansas-NW Missouri  Aerospace/Astronomy/Weather S.T.E.M. Specialist


________________________________
 From: "David Young youngmdavid@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com>
To: "ASKC@yahoogroups.com" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> 
Sent: Wednesday, January 7, 2015 3:07 PM
Subject: Re: [ASKC] Re: Science night
 


  
Sorry, its on the calendar for January 22. I know people don't actually look at the calendar and I should have put the date in the message. I can't help it, I'm old:-)


Sent via Gmail from David Young



On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 7:38 AM, randracsek@... [ASKC] <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

 
>  
>What's the date?  Evan and I are interested in helping.  Evan even started his own meteorite collection to bring to these events.
>-Robynn and Evan Andracsek
>

Per the original note about the January 22 science night

Trailwood School Science Night
5101 W 95th St
Overland Park, KS 66207
5:30-7:30

Sent via Gmail from David Young

On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 4:17 PM, richard schoenberger
rrschoenberger@... [ASKC] <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

>
>
> what time  ?
>
>  ------------------------------
>  *From:* "David Young youngmdavid@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com>
> *To:* "ASKC@yahoogroups.com" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com>
> *Sent:* Wednesday, January 7, 2015 3:13 PM
> *Subject:* Re: [ASKC] Science Night - Trailwood
>
>
>  Yup, that's our night. I included the address to avoid confusion but
> forgot to put the date in for those that don't use the calendar. my bad
>
> Sent via Gmail from David Young
>
> On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 1:55 PM, Joseph Wright jos.wright@... [ASKC]
> <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
>
>
>  The Trailwood school calendar has "Family Fun Science Night on Jan. 22nd.
>
> Don't get this school confused with Trailwoods in KCMO.
>
>
> Just and FYI.
>
>
> Joe
>
> _______________________________________________________________________________
>
>
> Joseph S. Wright
>
> Cell Phone:  (913) 208-0924
>
> Operations Manager, Warkoczewski Observatory-UMKC
>
> Vice-President, Astronomical Society of Kansas City
> Solar System Ambassador, NASA/JPL Volunteer Program
> Girl Scouts of NE Kansas-NW Missouri  Aerospace/Astronomy/Weather S.T.E.M.
> Specialist
>
>
>
>
>   
>

I’m just back from observing Comet Lovejoy from an open field right near my home in suburban  Overland Park. Not naked eye from this location-  but instantly spotted in binoculars near Orion. Large (20 arc min.?) and brighter it seems than the mag 5 being reported in the last few days. I also observed the comet in my new 6” f/5 Orion dob at 30X....and it was a very nice sight indeed - definitely greenish, no  distinct nucleus, but big. I suspected, but not certain, of a 1.5 degree tail off to the north.  Bitter cold (3 F) drove me back indoors after 30 minutes though! But well worth the pain, heh-heh!

I can’t think of a better comet (that I have seen a least) in the last 4 or 5 years. 

Other reports???

Dave Hudgins

Just came in from observing the comet.  Naked eye if the Moon wasn't 
bright.  It was easy to find.  Wish it wasn't 0°F!

Joe

-- 
Joseph S. Wright
Cell Phone:  (913) 208-0924
Operations Manager, Warkoczewski Observatory-UMKC
Vice-President, Astronomical Society of Kansas City
Solar System Ambassador, NASA/JPL Volunteer Program
Girl Scouts of NE Kansas-NW Missouri  Aerospace/Astronomy/Weather S.T.E.M. Specialist

I've been wondering if anyone has ventured out into the cold to observe this comet. 
  
Tonight was my 3rd time I've observed it over the last week. Clear nights are rare. 
  
I've been watching it in 10x50 and 16x80 binos. Very easy in 10x50's in urban Raymore backyard. I would suspect that from the DSS it would be naked eye. I'm seeing a slight greenish color and a stubby tail off to the ENE. Large diffuse coma. 
  
Haven't gotten the scope out yet to look at it though. The cold isn't bad, but that wind is bitter. 
  
  
ALSO, has anyone been seeing Venus low in the SW now after sunset? It's that big bright "star" that is the first to pop out after sunset. If you get a chance, look closely and about 1 degree to its lower right to see Mercury. By next Monday Mercury will be nearly straight to Venus's right by just under 1 degree. 
  
Stay warm!!!!! 
  
-Scott 

----- Original Message -----

From: "'David Hudgins' dhudgins@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> 
To: "ASKC club Yahoo" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> 
Sent: Wednesday, January 7, 2015 9:37:22 PM 
Subject: [ASKC] Comet Lovejoy Very Nice from Overland Park 

  
I’m just back from observing Comet Lovejoy from an open field right near my home in suburban  Overland Park. Not naked eye from this location-  but instantly spotted in binoculars near Orion. Large (20 arc min.?) and brighter it seems than the mag 5 being reported in the last few days. I also observed the comet in my new 6” f/5 Orion dob at 30X....and it was a very nice sight indeed - definitely greenish, no  distinct nucleus, but big. I suspected, but not certain, of a 1.5 degree tail off to the north.  Bitter cold (3 F) drove me back indoors after 30 minutes though! But well worth the pain, heh-heh! 
  
I can’t think of a better comet (that I have seen a least) in the last 4 or 5 years. 
  
Other reports??? 
  
Dave Hudgins 
 

What goes on at the conferences? Specifically, would it be of interest to a 12 year old? Can you just go to the preconference tours?
-Robynn Andracsek 

My daughter (Alex), Leif, and I observed the comet a few nights ago with 15x70 binoculars in 7 degrees. Well worth it. 

Thanks,
Cindy Bahl

On Jan 7, 2015, at 9:50 PM, s.kranz1@... [ASKC] <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

I've been wondering if anyone has ventured out into the cold to observe this comet.
 
Tonight was my 3rd time I've observed it over the last week. Clear nights are rare.
 
I've been watching it in 10x50 and 16x80 binos. Very easy in 10x50's in urban Raymore backyard. I would suspect that from the DSS it would be naked eye. I'm seeing a slight greenish color and a stubby tail off to the ENE. Large diffuse coma.
 
Haven't gotten the scope out yet to look at it though. The cold isn't bad, but that wind is bitter.
 
 
ALSO, has anyone been seeing Venus low in the SW now after sunset? It's that big bright "star" that is the first to pop out after sunset. If you get a chance, look closely and about 1 degree to its lower right to see Mercury. By next Monday Mercury will be nearly straight to Venus's right by just under 1 degree.
 
Stay warm!!!!!
 
-Scott

From: "'David Hudgins' dhudgins@kc.rr.com [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com>
To: "ASKC club Yahoo" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 7, 2015 9:37:22 PM
Subject: [ASKC] Comet Lovejoy Very Nice from Overland Park

 
I’m just back from observing Comet Lovejoy from an open field right near my home in suburban  Overland Park. Not naked eye from this location-  but instantly spotted in binoculars near Orion. Large (20 arc min.?) and brighter it seems than the mag 5 being reported in the last few days. I also observed the comet in my new 6” f/5 Orion dob at 30X....and it was a very nice sight indeed - definitely greenish, no  distinct nucleus, but big. I suspected, but not certain, of a 1.5 degree tail off to the north.  Bitter cold (3 F) drove me back indoors after 30 minutes though! But well worth the pain, heh-heh!
 
I can’t think of a better comet (that I have seen a least) in the last 4 or 5 years.
 
Other reports???
 
Dave Hudgins

Robynn, more specifics regarding the schedule will be available in the next
few weeks.

In recent years we have  tried  to schedule some youth activities in
addition to recognition of our youth award winners at the banquet.

Carroll Iorg
Media Officer & Convention Coordinator
Astronomical League, Inc.
9201 Ward Parkway, #100
Kansas City. MO. 64114
www.astroleague.org
816 333 7759
carroll.iorg@...
On Jan 7, 2015 10:02 PM, "randracsek@burnsmcd.com [ASKC]" <
ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

>
>
> What goes on at the conferences? Specifically, would it be of interest to
> a 12 year old? Can you just go to the preconference tours?
> -Robynn Andracsek
>  
>

I observed Comet Lovejoy from my very light polluted sky in Mission through 10X50 binoculars. Quite easy to locate and has moved quite a bit from where I observed it about a week ago. My Canon DSLR was not happy with the cold temperature and refused to operate, so no imaging.

Sincerely,

Richard Fredrick

So a question from someone who has never seen a comet before -- am I looking for something that will look slightly blurry?  Or because it is so bright, will it look a bit more like a planet in binoculars at the moment?
 

 I am assuming something a bit like a nebula, since Messier's catalog was of objects that could be mistaken for comets. See -- book learnin'.
 

 My eyes seem to be finally recovered from the surgeries of the past two years, so thought I might try my luck out here.  Otherwise hope for clear skies on January 23 and peek through someone's scope who has it lined up for me!
 

 Cheers,
 
Dave

It will be like a nebula. Possibly with a tail, depending on your magnification. Haven't seen it myself, as yet, but the reports are making my mouth water. 
  
Jim 

----- Original Message -----

From: "davekirsch@yahoo.com [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> 
To: "ASKC" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> 
Sent: Thursday, January 8, 2015 10:27:16 AM 
Subject: [ASKC] Seeing Comet Lovejoy 





So a question from someone who has never seen a comet before -- am I looking for something that will look slightly blurry?  Or because it is so bright, will it look a bit more like a planet in binoculars at the moment? 




I am assuming something a bit like a nebula, since Messier's catalog was of objects that could be mistaken for comets. See -- book learnin'. 




My eyes seem to be finally recovered from the surgeries of the past two years, so thought I might try my luck out here.  Otherwise hope for clear skies on January 23 and peek through someone's scope who has it lined up for me! 




Cheers, 


Dave 

 

Hey, I just downloaded the latest version of Stellarium (135megs) and you can got to the Minor Planet Center (MPC) and download comets.  It shows Lovejoy where it should be! One you download, install and open it, you can make the changes.  You go to the "Wrench" tool on the left side and select Plug-ins to add Solar System Editor.  Check Load at Startup. Restart and go back to same menu.   You return to the Plugins menu to Solar System Editor and configure.  This will send you through menus to go out to the MPC and download observable comets. Joe _______________________________________________________________________________

Joseph S. Wright

Cell Phone:  (913) 208-0924

Operations Manager, Warkoczewski Observatory-UMKC

Vice-President, Astronomical Society of Kansas City
Solar System Ambassador, NASA/JPL Volunteer Program
Girl Scouts of NE Kansas-NW Missouri  Aerospace/Astronomy/Weather S.T.E.M. Specialist

According to the comet's elements, the brightness should peak on the evenings of January 9, 10, & 11 at magnitude 4.9. By the 23rd, it will be down to 5.3; still plenty bright. 
  
But then remember, this is a comet, and like a cat, they do whatever they want to. It could brighten more or less than predicted. Let's not forget the Comet of the Century in 2013 (ISON). 
  
  

----- Original Message -----

From: "s kranz1" <s.kranz1@comcast.net> 
To: "!_askc" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> 
Sent: Wednesday, January 7, 2015 9:50:42 PM 
Subject: Re: [ASKC] Comet Lovejoy Very Nice from Overland Park 

I've been wondering if anyone has ventured out into the cold to observe this comet. 
  
Tonight was my 3rd time I've observed it over the last week. Clear nights are rare. 
  
I've been watching it in 10x50 and 16x80 binos. Very easy in 10x50's in urban Raymore backyard. I would suspect that from the DSS it would be naked eye. I'm seeing a slight greenish color and a stubby tail off to the ENE. Large diffuse coma. 
  
Haven't gotten the scope out yet to look at it though. The cold isn't bad, but that wind is bitter. 
  
  
ALSO, has anyone been seeing Venus low in the SW now after sunset? It's that big bright "star" that is the first to pop out after sunset. If you get a chance, look closely and about 1 degree to its lower right to see Mercury. By next Monday Mercury will be nearly straight to Venus's right by just under 1 degree. 
  
Stay warm!!!!! 
  
-Scott 

----- Original Message -----

From: "'David Hudgins' dhudgins@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> 
To: "ASKC club Yahoo" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> 
Sent: Wednesday, January 7, 2015 9:37:22 PM 
Subject: [ASKC] Comet Lovejoy Very Nice from Overland Park 

  
I’m just back from observing Comet Lovejoy from an open field right near my home in suburban  Overland Park. Not naked eye from this location-  but instantly spotted in binoculars near Orion. Large (20 arc min.?) and brighter it seems than the mag 5 being reported in the last few days. I also observed the comet in my new 6” f/5 Orion dob at 30X....and it was a very nice sight indeed - definitely greenish, no  distinct nucleus, but big. I suspected, but not certain, of a 1.5 degree tail off to the north.  Bitter cold (3 F) drove me back indoors after 30 minutes though! But well worth the pain, heh-heh! 
  
I can’t think of a better comet (that I have seen a least) in the last 4 or 5 years. 
  
Other reports??? 
  
Dave Hudgins 
 

I uploaded the newsletter Rita and I receive from our program in Tucson for the JSWT. NIRCam News is the from the GSA program under the James Webb Space Telescope. Joe _______________________________________________________________________________

Joseph S. Wright

Cell Phone:  (913) 208-0924

Operations Manager, Warkoczewski Observatory-UMKC

Vice-President, Astronomical Society of Kansas City
Solar System Ambassador, NASA/JPL Volunteer Program
Girl Scouts of NE Kansas-NW Missouri  Aerospace/Astronomy/Weather S.T.E.M. Specialist

As promised, we will be at the dss this Saturday to install security measures and clean up around the pond some more. Chain saws and pole saws are welcome. Starting around 10:30 to let the chill work of a little. All and any help is appreciated.
Darrick

I have a request for a school event at EPic Elementary in Liberty, MO for
April 17 or 18. That's a new moon on Saturday April 18.

Anyone interested?

Sent via Gmail from David Young

The good news is the replacement igniter for my spud gun hasn't come in yet
so we won't be shooting potato slugs at the tree line:-(

Sent via Gmail from David Young

On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 5:37 PM, earthdude123@... [ASKC] <
ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

>
>
> As promised, we will be at the dss this Saturday to install security
> measures and clean up around the pond some more. Chain saws and pole saws
> are welcome. Starting around 10:30 to let the chill work of a little. All
> and any help is appreciated.
> Darrick
>  
>

My wife and I would be.   It's close to us. 



David Stewart scidav87@aol.com

On Thursday, January 8, 2015 David Young youngmdavid <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

  

I have a request for a school event at EPic Elementary in Liberty, MO for April 17 or 18. That's a new moon on Saturday April 18. 


Anyone interested? 

  

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My wife and I would be.   It's close to us. 



David Stewart scidav87@aol.com

On Thursday, January 8, 2015 David Young youngmdavid <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

  

I have a request for a school event at EPic Elementary in Liberty, MO for April 17 or 18. That's a new moon on Saturday April 18. 


Anyone interested? 

  

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Great. I've asked them if their dates are flexible since most kids like to
see the moon. If they can do Monday or Tuesday will you be available for
that date as well.

Sent via Gmail from David Young

On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 6:16 PM, David Stewart scidav87@... [ASKC] <
ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

>
>
> My wife and I would be.   It's close to us.
>
>
>
> David Stewart scidav87@...
> ------------------------------
> On Thursday, January 8, 2015 David Young youngmdavid <ASKC@yahoogroups.com>
> wrote:
>
>
>  I have a request for a school event at EPic Elementary in Liberty, MO
> for April 17 or 18. That's a new moon on Saturday April 18.
>
>  Anyone interested?
>
>   Sent via Gmail from David Young
>
>    
>

Haven't seen Lovejoy yet, but I have seen Venus from the 7th floor of Garmin right after sunset.  Even though I'm overlooking Olathe, it was a pretty sight.  Didn't notice Mercury, but I wasn't really looking for it either.

 

Rick Henderson

 

From: ASKC@yahoogroups.com [mailto:ASKC@yahoogroups.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2015 9:51 PM
To: !_askc
Subject: Re: [ASKC] Comet Lovejoy Very Nice from Overland Park

 

  

I've been wondering if anyone has ventured out into the cold to observe this comet.

 

Tonight was my 3rd time I've observed it over the last week. Clear nights are rare.

 

I've been watching it in 10x50 and 16x80 binos. Very easy in 10x50's in urban Raymore backyard. I would suspect that from the DSS it would be naked eye. I'm seeing a slight greenish color and a stubby tail off to the ENE. Large diffuse coma.

 

Haven't gotten the scope out yet to look at it though. The cold isn't bad, but that wind is bitter.

 

 

ALSO, has anyone been seeing Venus low in the SW now after sunset? It's that big bright "star" that is the first to pop out after sunset. If you get a chance, look closely and about 1 degree to its lower right to see Mercury. By next Monday Mercury will be nearly straight to Venus's right by just under 1 degree.

 

Stay warm!!!!!

 

-Scott

 

  _____  

From: "'David Hudgins' dhudgins@kc.rr.com [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com>
To: "ASKC club Yahoo" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 7, 2015 9:37:22 PM
Subject: [ASKC] Comet Lovejoy Very Nice from Overland Park

 

  

I’m just back from observing Comet Lovejoy from an open field right near my home in suburban  Overland Park. Not naked eye from this location-  but instantly spotted in binoculars near Orion. Large (20 arc min.?) and brighter it seems than the mag 5 being reported in the last few days. I also observed the comet in my new 6” f/5 Orion dob at 30X....and it was a very nice sight indeed - definitely greenish, no  distinct nucleus, but big. I suspected, but not certain, of a 1.5 degree tail off to the north.  Bitter cold (3 F) drove me back indoors after 30 minutes though! But well worth the pain, heh-heh!

 

I can’t think of a better comet (that I have seen a least) in the last 4 or 5 years.

 

Other reports???

 

Dave Hudgins

 

Hi, Robynn….

 

I’ve been to many an ALCON….   The side trips are just the start of it.    Then they bring in really great guest speakers, vendors, and have workshops and all sorts of good things.   Friday night there usually has been a Star-B-Que.  Saturday night is the finale, with a great dinner, and the keynote speaker for the whole convention.   That is also when awards are given away.    I used to go every year, but have missed it the past few years.   I’m excited to be going again.    Do keep watch at the website for all the announcements, etc.    

 

You can drive, or fly into El Paso and rent a car.    Also nearby is Sedona and Carlsbad Caverns…      I will definitely hit Sedona.    Good shopping there, I heard.

 

Jackie Beucher

 

From: ASKC@yahoogroups.com [mailto:ASKC@yahoogroups.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2015 10:02 PM
To: ASKC@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [ASKC] Astronomical League Web Site

 

  

What goes on at the conferences? Specifically, would it be of interest to a 12 year old? Can you just go to the preconference tours?
-Robynn Andracsek 

I'lll let you know if its a go and what date they decide on.

Sent via Gmail from David Young

On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 6:35 PM, Dave Stewart scidav87@aol.com [ASKC] <
ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

>
>
> I don't see why not.
>
> *Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE DROID*
> On Jan 8, 2015 6:19 PM, "David Young youngmdavid@... [ASKC]" <
> ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> Great. I've asked them if their dates are flexible since most kids like to
> see the moon. If they can do Monday or Tuesday will you be available for
> that date as well.
>
> Sent via Gmail from David Young
>
> On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 6:16 PM, David Stewart scidav87@... [ASKC] <
> ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> My wife and I would be.   It's close to us.
>>
>>
>>
>> David Stewart scidav87@...
>> ------------------------------
>> On Thursday, January 8, 2015 David Young youngmdavid <
>> ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>  I have a request for a school event at EPic Elementary in Liberty, MO
>> for April 17 or 18. That's a new moon on Saturday April 18.
>>
>>  Anyone interested?
>>
>>   Sent via Gmail from David Young
>>
>>
>   
>

When did they move Sedona? I thought that was north of Phoenix on the way
to Flagstaff.

Sent via Gmail from David Young

On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 7:12 PM, Jackie Beucher m31@... [ASKC] <
ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

>
>
> Hi, Robynn….
>
>
>
> I’ve been to many an ALCON….   The side trips are just the start of it.
> Then they bring in really great guest speakers, vendors, and have workshops
> and all sorts of good things.   Friday night there usually has been a
> Star-B-Que.  Saturday night is the finale, with a great dinner, and the
> keynote speaker for the whole convention.   That is also when awards are
> given away.    I used to go every year, but have missed it the past few
> years.   I’m excited to be going again.    Do keep watch at the website for
> all the announcements, etc.
>
>
>
> You can drive, or fly into El Paso and rent a car.    Also nearby is
> Sedona and Carlsbad Caverns…      I will definitely hit Sedona.    Good
> shopping there, I heard.
>
>
>
> Jackie Beucher
>
>
>
> *From:* ASKC@yahoogroups.com [mailto:ASKC@yahoogroups.com]
> *Sent:* Wednesday, January 07, 2015 10:02 PM
> *To:* ASKC@yahoogroups.com
> *Subject:* Re: [ASKC] Astronomical League Web Site
>
>
>
>
>
> What goes on at the conferences? Specifically, would it be of interest to
> a 12 year old? Can you just go to the preconference tours?
> -Robynn Andracsek
>
>  
>

Sedona is still in Arizona. Maybe Soccoro? That is a ways west of Las Cruces but near the Very Large Array.
Martha A

Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android

It's all relative, depending on how you define nearby.  From Las Cruces, 
Sedona is nearby when compared to KC.

Like I said before, El Senor serves some pretty good Mexican food and 
the Space Mural Museum is interesting.  Both in Las Cruces or 
nearby...really.  Wendee Levy use to be a teacher there, if memory 
serves me correctly.

If  you are adventurous, get the "Road Side Geology" books for NM and 
AZ.  Rita, Lario and I use them when we are out that way. They are laid 
out by road and give places to go rock hounding.

Since I am rather new on the job, I am building vacation time from the 
start.  Just can't get enough time off for more than one trip this 
year.  However, my heart will be with all of you going.  If you plan to 
head farther west and want some ideas for Tucson and vicinity, let me 
know.  I've been told to think about another vacation spot other than 
Tucson!!!  After 5 trips, I guess it is time to move on...not 
really..what is this woman thinking.

Joe


Martha Auchard mauchard@... [ASKC] wrote:
>
> Sedona is still in Arizona. Maybe Soccoro? That is a ways west of Las 
> Cruces but near the Very Large Array.
> Martha _A_
>
> Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android 
> <https://overview.mail.yahoo.com/mobile/?.src=Android>
>
> From:"David Young youngmdavid@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com>
> Date:Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 7:35 PM
> Subject:Re: [ASKC] Astronomical League Web Site
>
> When did they move Sedona? I thought that was north of Phoenix on the 
> way to Flagstaff.
>
> Sent via Gmail from David Young
>
> On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 7:12 PM, Jackie Beucher m31@... 
> [ASKC] <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
>
>     Hi, Robynn….
>
>     I’ve been to many an ALCON….   The side trips are just the start
>     of it.    Then they bring in really great guest speakers, vendors,
>     and have workshops and all sorts of good things. Friday night
>     there usually has been a Star-B-Que. Saturday night is the finale,
>     with a great dinner, and the keynote speaker for the whole
>     convention. That is also when awards are given away.    I used to
>     go every year, but have missed it the past few years.   I’m
>     excited to be going again.    Do keep watch at the website for all
>     the announcements, etc.
>
>     You can drive, or fly into El Paso and rent a car.  Also nearby is
>     Sedona and Carlsbad Caverns…    I will definitely hit Sedona. Good
>     shopping there, I heard.
>
>     Jackie Beucher
>
>     *From:*ASKC@yahoogroups.com [mailto:ASKC@yahoogroups.com]
>     *Sent:* Wednesday, January 07, 2015 10:02 PM
>     *To:* ASKC@yahoogroups.com
>     *Subject:* Re: [ASKC] Astronomical League Web Site
>
>     What goes on at the conferences? Specifically, would it be of
>     interest to a 12 year old? Can you just go to the preconference tours?
>     -Robynn Andracsek
>
>
> 

-- 
Joseph S. Wright
Cell Phone:  (913) 208-0924
Operations Manager, Warkoczewski Observatory-UMKC
Vice-President, Astronomical Society of Kansas City
Solar System Ambassador, NASA/JPL Volunteer Program
Girl Scouts of NE Kansas-NW Missouri  Aerospace/Astronomy/Weather S.T.E.M. Specialist

I'll have to admit Sedona is a very interesting place to spend some time.
In addition to the eclectic shopping and all the artist's wares the red
rock formations around the place are fantastic. I never felt any of the
energy vortexes the mystics swear by but the place is worth a trip north if
you happen to be in Phoenix someday. It's on the way to Flagstaff and
Lowell Observatory if you are headed north to Sunset crater or jogging east
to Meteor Crater.

Sent via Gmail from David Young

On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 9:47 PM, Joseph Wright jos.wright@... [ASKC] <
ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

>
>
> It's all relative, depending on how you define nearby. From Las Cruces,
> Sedona is nearby when compared to KC.
>
> Like I said before, El Senor serves some pretty good Mexican food and
> the Space Mural Museum is interesting. Both in Las Cruces or
> nearby...really. Wendee Levy use to be a teacher there, if memory
> serves me correctly.
>
> If you are adventurous, get the "Road Side Geology" books for NM and
> AZ. Rita, Lario and I use them when we are out that way. They are laid
> out by road and give places to go rock hounding.
>
> Since I am rather new on the job, I am building vacation time from the
> start. Just can't get enough time off for more than one trip this
> year. However, my heart will be with all of you going. If you plan to
> head farther west and want some ideas for Tucson and vicinity, let me
> know. I've been told to think about another vacation spot other than
> Tucson!!! After 5 trips, I guess it is time to move on...not
> really..what is this woman thinking.
>
> Joe
>
> Martha Auchard mauchard@... [ASKC] wrote:
> >
> > Sedona is still in Arizona. Maybe Soccoro? That is a ways west of Las
> > Cruces but near the Very Large Array.
> > Martha _A_
> >
> > Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android
> > <https://overview.mail.yahoo.com/mobile/?.src=Android>
> >
> > From:"David Young youngmdavid@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com>
> > Date:Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 7:35 PM
> > Subject:Re: [ASKC] Astronomical League Web Site
> >
> > When did they move Sedona? I thought that was north of Phoenix on the
> > way to Flagstaff.
> >
> > Sent via Gmail from David Young
> >
> > On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 7:12 PM, Jackie Beucher m31@...
> > [ASKC] <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi, Robynn….
> >
> > I’ve been to many an ALCON…. The side trips are just the start
> > of it. Then they bring in really great guest speakers, vendors,
> > and have workshops and all sorts of good things. Friday night
> > there usually has been a Star-B-Que. Saturday night is the finale,
> > with a great dinner, and the keynote speaker for the whole
> > convention. That is also when awards are given away. I used to
> > go every year, but have missed it the past few years. I’m
> > excited to be going again. Do keep watch at the website for all
> > the announcements, etc.
> >
> > You can drive, or fly into El Paso and rent a car. Also nearby is
> > Sedona and Carlsbad Caverns… I will definitely hit Sedona. Good
> > shopping there, I heard.
> >
> > Jackie Beucher
> >
> > *From:*ASKC@yahoogroups.com [mailto:ASKC@yahoogroups.com]
> > *Sent:* Wednesday, January 07, 2015 10:02 PM
> > *To:* ASKC@yahoogroups.com
> > *Subject:* Re: [ASKC] Astronomical League Web Site
> >
> > What goes on at the conferences? Specifically, would it be of
> > interest to a 12 year old? Can you just go to the preconference tours?
> > -Robynn Andracsek
> >
> >
> >
>
> --
> Joseph S. Wright
> Cell Phone: (913) 208-0924
> Operations Manager, Warkoczewski Observatory-UMKC
> Vice-President, Astronomical Society of Kansas City
> Solar System Ambassador, NASA/JPL Volunteer Program
> Girl Scouts of NE Kansas-NW Missouri Aerospace/Astronomy/Weather S.T.E.M.
> Specialist
>
>  
>

Put me in coach.  This school sounds interesting.  I took a look at their web site. Joe _______________________________________________________________________________

Joseph S. Wright

Cell Phone:  (913) 208-0924

Operations Manager, Warkoczewski Observatory-UMKC

Vice-President, Astronomical Society of Kansas City
Solar System Ambassador, NASA/JPL Volunteer Program
Girl Scouts of NE Kansas-NW Missouri  Aerospace/Astronomy/Weather S.T.E.M. Specialist
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 To: "ASKC@yahoogroups.com" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> 
 Sent: Thursday, January 8, 2015 6:05 PM
 Subject: [ASKC] school night
   
    I have a request for a school event at EPic Elementary in Liberty, MO for April 17 or 18. That's a new moon on Saturday April 18.
Anyone interested? 
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does any one know the date for this school science night ?

The particulars. John Nowlin Elementary5020 Valley View RoadBlue Springs, MO 64015Jan. 27th (Tuesday)
6pm?


Joe  _______________________________________________________________________________

Joseph S. Wright

Cell Phone:  (913) 208-0924

Operations Manager, Warkoczewski Observatory-UMKC

Vice-President, Astronomical Society of Kansas City
Solar System Ambassador, NASA/JPL Volunteer Program
Girl Scouts of NE Kansas-NW Missouri  Aerospace/Astronomy/Weather S.T.E.M. Specialist
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Are there any 6"-8" scopes for sale from any society members? Thanks, Joe _______________________________________________________________________________

Joseph S. Wright

Cell Phone:  (913) 208-0924

Operations Manager, Warkoczewski Observatory-UMKC

Vice-President, Astronomical Society of Kansas City
Solar System Ambassador, NASA/JPL Volunteer Program
Girl Scouts of NE Kansas-NW Missouri  Aerospace/Astronomy/Weather S.T.E.M. Specialist

Please see the link for a useful article and finder charts from Alan
MacRobert from today's S&T newsletter:

 

http://www.skyandtelescope.com/astronomy-news/observing-news/spot-comet-love
joy-tonight-122920141/?et_mid=714345
<http://www.skyandtelescope.com/astronomy-news/observing-news/spot-comet-lov
ejoy-tonight-122920141/?et_mid=714345&rid=246602918> &rid=246602918 

 

The comet will be above the eastern horizon at sunset. At 4th magnitude, you
should be able to find it as soon as the sky gets dark. The Moon rises about
9:45 p.m., meaning nice dark skies for a couple of hours.

 

The best news is that the sky is forecast to be clear.must mean it's cold
outside. Bundle up!

 

Mike

Joe,

Newtonian or Refractor or other dioptric?

-Stuart

 

From: ASKC@yahoogroups.com [mailto:ASKC@yahoogroups.com] 
Sent: Friday, January 9, 2015 3:22 PM
To: ASKC On Yahoogroups
Subject: [ASKC] Scopes for Sale

 

  

Are there any 6"-8" scopes for sale from any society members?

 

Thanks,

 

Joe

 

_______________________________________________________________________________ 

Joseph S. Wright 

Cell Phone:  (913) 208-0924 

Operations Manager, Warkoczewski Observatory-UMKC 

Vice-President, Astronomical Society of Kansas City 
Solar System Ambassador, NASA/JPL Volunteer Program 
Girl Scouts of NE Kansas-NW Missouri  Aerospace/Astronomy/Weather S.T.E.M. Specialist

From the UK Daily Mail:

 

Time to move to Mars! 

 

By DAILYMAIL.COM REPORTER and ASSOCIATED PRESS

 

PUBLISHED: 01:31 EST, 9 January 2015 | UPDATED: 10:06 EST, 9 January 2015

 

     

Time to stop remarking about how unearthly cold it is outside because on
Thursday, Mars was actually warmer than many parts of the U.S. 

 

The daytime high in the red planet's Gale Crater, as recorded by NASA's
curiosity Rover, was 17.6 degrees F - a whopping 11 degrees warmer than the
6-degree high in Green Bay, Wisconsin. 

 

Temperatures in fourteen states from Washington to Maine reported
temperatures colder than Mars, as a brutal blast of Arctic air sweeps the
country.

 

Mars just recently passed its closest orbit to the sun, which partially
explains why the temperature was relatively balmy. The Gale Crater is also
located in one of the warmest parts of the planet, near the equator.

 

However, Americans shouldn't start planning their winter vacation to Mars
just yet, as the nighttime temperatures drop drastically. Thursday night,
temperatures dipped to a fatal -144 F.

right now at 6 o'clock, mercury is easily visible to the lower right of Venus

Sent from inside the TARDIS

Yes, looking at it as we drive along 435.  Really cool

Sent from my mobile

> On Jan 9, 2015, at 18:07, "Scott s.kranz1@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> right now at 6 o'clock, mercury is easily visible to the lower right of Venus
> 
> Sent from inside the TARDIS
> 
> 
> 

And have binocs along to look for love joy tonite

Jason

Sent from my mobile

> On Jan 9, 2015, at 18:11, Jason <jason@...> wrote:
> 
> Yes, looking at it as we drive along 435.  Really cool
> 
> Sent from my mobile
> 
>> On Jan 9, 2015, at 18:07, "Scott s.kranz1@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> right now at 6 o'clock, mercury is easily visible to the lower right of Venus
>> 
>> Sent from inside the TARDIS
>> 
>> 
>> 

Comet Lovejoy is an easy binocular target from suburban skies tonight. 

 

If you're not quite sure where to look, use the shoulder stars (Betelgeuse
and Bellatrix) of Orion as rough pointers. Follow them west (right) about
3.5 times the distance between the shoulder stars. The bright fuzzy object
is the comet.

 

It's much brighter and better defined than past observations. And wow, has
it moved!

Anybody want to go to Powell tonight?

Jason

Sent from my mobile

> On Jan 9, 2015, at 15:23, "'Mike Stewart' mike.n0tu@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> Please see the link for a useful article and finder charts from Alan MacRobert from today’s S&T newsletter:
>  
> http://www.skyandtelescope.com/astronomy-news/observing-news/spot-comet-lovejoy-tonight-122920141/?et_mid=714345&rid=246602918
>  
> The comet will be above the eastern horizon at sunset. At 4th magnitude, you should be able to find it as soon as the sky gets dark. The Moon rises about 9:45 p.m., meaning nice dark skies for a couple of hours.
>  
> The best news is that the sky is forecast to be clear…must mean it’s cold outside. Bundle up!
>  
> Mike
> 
> 
> 

Matt, Twyla and I are heading to Powell, should be there around 2030 

Sent from my mobile

> On Jan 9, 2015, at 19:07, "Dave Stewart scidav87@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
> 
> Would love to!!   Lol
> 
> Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE DROID
> On Jan 9, 2015 7:06 PM, "Jason jason@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> Anybody want to go to Powell tonight?
> 
> Jason
> 
> Sent from my mobile
> 
>> On Jan 9, 2015, at 15:23, "'Mike Stewart' mike.n0tu@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Please see the link for a useful article and finder charts from Alan MacRobert from today’s S&T newsletter:
>> 
>>  
>> 
>> http://www.skyandtelescope.com/astronomy-news/observing-news/spot-comet-lovejoy-tonight-122920141/?et_mid=714345&rid=246602918
>> 
>>  
>> 
>> The comet will be above the eastern horizon at sunset. At 4th magnitude, you should be able to find it as soon as the sky gets dark. The Moon rises about 9:45 p.m., meaning nice dark skies for a couple of hours.
>> 
>>  
>> 
>> The best news is that the sky is forecast to be clear…must mean it’s cold outside. Bundle up!
>> 
>>  
>> 
>> Mike
>> 
> 
> 
> 

Hmm.   I couldn't get there till midnight or so.   I doubt you would be there that long?   It's an hr drive for me 


David Stewart scidav87@...

On Friday, January 9, 2015 Jason jason <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

  

Matt, Twyla and I are heading to Powell, should be there around 2030  

Sent from my mobile 


On Jan 9, 2015, at 19:07, "Dave Stewart scidav87@... [ASKC]" < ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote: 

Would love to!!   Lol 


Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE DROID 

On Jan 9, 2015 7:06 PM, "Jason jason@... [ASKC]" < ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote: 

  

Anybody want to go to Powell tonight? 


Jason 

Sent from my mobile 


On Jan 9, 2015, at 15:23, "'Mike Stewart' mike.n0tu@... [ASKC]" < ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote: 

Please see the link for a useful article and finder charts from Alan MacRobert from today’s S&T newsletter:

 

http://www.skyandtelescope.com/astronomy-news/observing-news/spot-comet-lovejoy-tonight-122920141/?et_mid=714345&rid=246602918 

 

The comet will be above the eastern horizon at sunset. At 4th magnitude, you should be able to find it as soon as the sky gets dark. The Moon rises about 9:45 p.m., meaning nice dark skies for a couple of hours.

 

The best news is that the sky is forecast to be clear…must mean it’s cold outside. Bundle up!

 

Mike

 

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Yeah, don't think we'll be there after 2130-2200 or so. Want a good look at Lovejoy and tonite looks like the best night for this weekend

We are about 45 minutes from Powell, anyway, that's why the 2030-ish arrival time. 

Others welcome


Jason

Sent from my mobile

> On Jan 9, 2015, at 19:18, "David Stewart scidav87@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> Hmm.   I couldn't get there till midnight or so.   I doubt you would be there that long?   It's an hr drive for me 
> 
> 
> David Stewart scidav87@aol.com
> 
> 
> 
> On Friday, January 9, 2015 Jason jason <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
> 
> Matt, Twyla and I are heading to Powell, should be there around 2030  
> 
> Sent from my mobile
> 
> On Jan 9, 2015, at 19:07, "Dave Stewart scidav87@... [ASKC]" < ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote: 
> 
> Would love to!!   Lol
> 
> Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE DROID
> On Jan 9, 2015 7:06 PM, "Jason         jason@... [ASKC]" < ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote: 
>  
> Anybody want to go to Powell tonight?
> 
> Jason 
> 
> Sent from my mobile
> 
> On Jan 9, 2015, at 15:23, "'Mike Stewart' mike.n0tu@... [ASKC]" < ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote: 
> 
> Please see the link for a useful article and finder charts from Alan MacRobert from today’s S&T newsletter:
> 
>  
> 
> http://www.skyandtelescope.com/astronomy-news/observing-news/spot-comet-lovejoy-tonight-122920141/?et_mid=714345&rid=246602918
> 
>  
> 
> The comet will be above the eastern horizon at sunset. At 4th magnitude, you should be able to find it as soon as the sky gets dark. The Moon rises about 9:45 p.m., meaning nice dark skies for a couple of hours.
> 
>  
> 
> The best news is that the sky is forecast to be clear…must mean it’s cold outside. Bundle up!
> 
>  
> 
> Mike
> 
> 
> 
> 

Bummer.   Oh well.   I work 2nd shift. 



David Stewart scidav87@...

On Friday, January 9, 2015 Jason jason <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

  

Yeah, don't think we'll be there after 2130-2200 or so. Want a good look at Lovejoy and tonite looks like the best night for this weekend 


We are about 45 minutes from Powell, anyway, that's why the 2030-ish arrival time.  


Others welcome 



Jason 

Sent from my mobile 


On Jan 9, 2015, at 19:18, "David Stewart scidav87@... [ASKC]" < ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote: 

Hmm.   I couldn't get there till midnight or so.   I doubt you would be there that long?   It's an hr drive for me 


David Stewart scidav87@...



On Friday, January 9, 2015 Jason jason <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote: 

  

Matt, Twyla and I are heading to Powell, should be there around 2030  

Sent from my mobile 


On Jan 9, 2015, at 19:07, "Dave Stewart scidav87@... [ASKC]" < ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote: 

Would love to!!   Lol 


Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE DROID 

On Jan 9, 2015 7:06 PM, "Jason jason@... [ASKC]" < ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote: 

  

Anybody want to go to Powell tonight? 


Jason 

Sent from my mobile 


On Jan 9, 2015, at 15:23, "'Mike Stewart' mike.n0tu@... [ASKC]" < ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote: 

Please see the link for a useful article and finder charts from Alan MacRobert from today’s S&T newsletter:

 

http://www.skyandtelescope.com/astronomy-news/observing-news/spot-comet-lovejoy-tonight-122920141/?et_mid=714345&rid=246602918 

 

The comet will be above the eastern horizon at sunset. At 4th magnitude, you should be able to find it as soon as the sky gets dark. The Moon rises about 9:45 p.m., meaning nice dark skies for a couple of hours.

 

The best news is that the sky is forecast to be clear…must mean it’s cold outside. Bundle up!

 

Mike

 

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We're off to Powell to view the comet. Plan to be there about 8:30 and stay
until at least 9:30

If you are coming down and will arrive after that you should call my cell
913-558-1155 to make sure someone is still there. I don't know how long
Forsts plan to stay.

The classroom will be open for warm up and bathrooms and I will have a
portable heater.

Sent via Gmail from David Young

Just came in from looking at the comet from my backyard in Cleveland, MO. Very nice and easy to find with my 10X50 binos. Once I looked it and put to memory the stars near it, I could easily see it naked eye. To me, it look just a bit dimmer than M42. This maybe because M42 has a the bright core from it's embedded stars. I didn't stay long enough to make out a tail. Too dang cold. Tom J Martinez
http://tomjmartinez.blogspot.com/ 

     On Friday, January 9, 2015 7:27 PM, "David Stewart scidav87@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
   

     Bummer.   Oh well.   I work 2nd shift. 

David Stewart scidav87@... Friday, January 9, 2015 Jason jason <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
       Yeah, don't think we'll be there after 2130-2200 or so. Want a good look at Lovejoy and tonite looks like the best night for this weekend   
  We are about 45 minutes from Powell, anyway, that's why the 2030-ish arrival time.    
  Others welcome   
   
  Jason 
 
Sent from my mobile   
On Jan 9, 2015, at 19:18, "David Stewart scidav87@... [ASKC]" < ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote: 
 
  
  Hmm.   I couldn't get there till midnight or so.   I doubt you would be there that long?   It's an hr drive for me 
 
 
 David Stewart scidav87@... 
 
  On Friday, January 9, 2015 Jason jason <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote: 
 
         Matt, Twyla and I are heading to Powell, should be there around 2030  
 
Sent from my mobile   
 On Jan 9, 2015, at 19:07, "Dave Stewart scidav87@... [ASKC]" < ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote: 
 
  
    Would love to!!   Lol   
   Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE DROID    On Jan 9, 2015 7:06 PM, "Jason jason@... [ASKC]" < ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote: 
 
      Anybody want to go to Powell tonight?   
   Jason 
 
Sent from my mobile   
On Jan 9, 2015, at 15:23, "'Mike Stewart' mike.n0tu@... [ASKC]" < ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote: 
 
  
   Please see the link for a useful article and finder charts from Alan MacRobert from today’s S&T newsletter:   http://www.skyandtelescope.com/astronomy-news/observing-news/spot-comet-lovejoy-tonight-122920141/?et_mid=714345&rid=246602918    The comet will be above the eastern horizon at sunset. At 4th magnitude, you should be able to find it as soon as the sky gets dark. The Moon rises about 9:45 p.m., meaning nice dark skies for a couple of hours.   The best news is that the sky is forecast to be clear…must mean it’s cold outside. Bundle up!   Mike    
    
   
          
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Saw both from the 7th floor of Garmin tonight!  Nice view.

 

Rick Henderson

 

From: ASKC@yahoogroups.com [mailto:ASKC@yahoogroups.com] 
Sent: Friday, January 09, 2015 6:08 PM
To: askc
Subject: [ASKC] Mercury and Venus

 

  

right now at 6 o'clock, mercury is easily visible to the lower right of Venus

 

Sent from inside the TARDIS

Yes, I observed the comet again tonight (Friday) with a 6” f/5 dob from 135th and Pflumb in Overland Park.  Nice and big, but tonight is a  little  scuzy compared to last evening. 

Interestingly, there was a 9.75 mag little red M dwarf just inside the coma, and you could see the comet moving by it over 30 minutes. (From our perspective of course!) Very neat.   

Cheers - Dave Hudgins



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Just went out my door & observed Comet Lovejoy!  Found it naked eye first then looked at it in my 9X63 binoculars.  Really big & nice!  If clear tomorrow night will get my scope on it. What are the odds we will have 2 nights in a row clear?!

Sent from my iPhone

> On Jan 7, 2015, at 9:50 PM, "s.kranz1@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> I've been wondering if anyone has ventured out into the cold to observe this comet.
>  
> Tonight was my 3rd time I've observed it over the last week. Clear nights are rare.
>  
> I've been watching it in 10x50 and 16x80 binos. Very easy in 10x50's in urban Raymore backyard. I would suspect that from the DSS it would be naked eye. I'm seeing a slight greenish color and a stubby tail off to the ENE. Large diffuse coma.
>  
> Haven't gotten the scope out yet to look at it though. The cold isn't bad, but that wind is bitter.
>  
>  
> ALSO, has anyone been seeing Venus low in the SW now after sunset? It's that big bright "star" that is the first to pop out after sunset. If you get a chance, look closely and about 1 degree to its lower right to see Mercury. By next Monday Mercury will be nearly straight to Venus's right by just under 1 degree.
>  
> Stay warm!!!!!
>  
> -Scott
> 
> From: "'David Hudgins' dhudgins@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com>
> To: "ASKC club Yahoo" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 7, 2015 9:37:22 PM
> Subject: [ASKC] Comet Lovejoy Very Nice from Overland Park
> 
> I’m just back from observing Comet Lovejoy from an open field right near my home in suburban  Overland Park. Not naked eye from this location-  but instantly spotted in binoculars near Orion. Large (20 arc min.?) and brighter it seems than the mag 5 being reported in the last few days. I also observed the comet in my new 6” f/5 Orion dob at 30X....and it was a very nice sight indeed - definitely greenish, no  distinct nucleus, but big. I suspected, but not certain, of a 1.5 degree tail off to the north.  Bitter cold (3 F) drove me back indoors after 30 minutes though! But well worth the pain, heh-heh!
>  
> I can’t think of a better comet (that I have seen a least) in the last 4 or 5 years.
>  
> Other reports???
>  
> Dave Hudgins
> 
> 
> 
> 

I stepped out in to my driveway in Humboldt, KS and I swept up the comet with my 7" Starmaster Oak Classic. After that I was able to pick out the comet with my naked eye. But keep in mind Humboldt is a town of 1,800 people in southeast Kansas. I also observed the comet with my 20" Starmaster. It is a neat little comet. Bright and easy to observe. 

Mike Myer
Humboldt, KS 

It's nice to see on here Mike. I haven't seen you in a while. Tom J Martinez
http://tomjmartinez.blogspot.com/ 

     On Friday, January 9, 2015 9:41 PM, "mdmyer@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
   

     I stepped out in to my driveway in Humboldt, KS and I swept up the comet with my 7" Starmaster Oak Classic. After that I was able to pick out the comet with my naked eye. But keep in mind Humboldt is a town of 1,800 people in southeast Kansas. I also observed the comet with my 20" Starmaster. It is a neat little comet. Bright and easy to observe. 

Mike Myer
Humboldt, KS 
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I had planned to observe, but bad wheel bearing trumped it.  Part arrives in the morning.  Did get some binocular looks in between walking to garages for tools.  Front end torn down ready for install.  

Glad people went to Powell.

Joe

Happy Connecting.  Sent from my Sprint Phone.


------ Original message------
From: mdmyer@cox.net [ASKC]
Date: Fri, Jan 9, 2015 21:41
To: ASKC@yahoogroups.com;
Subject:Re: [ASKC] Comet Lovejoy Very Nice from Overland Park


I stepped out in to my driveway in Humboldt, KS and I swept up the comet with my 7" Starmaster Oak Classic. After that I was able to pick out the comet with my naked eye. But keep in mind Humboldt is a town of 1,800 people in southeast Kansas. I also observed the comet with my 20" Starmaster. It is a neat little comet. Bright and easy to observe.

Mike Myer
Humboldt, KS

Stuart, person not sure.  Doing hunt for beginner.  I'll know more after I speak with her.  Most likely she will join ASKC.

I'll chat with you over the weekend.

Joe.
Happy Connecting.  Sent from my Sprint Phone.


------ Original message------
From: 'Stuart Riley' sriley1083@cox.net [ASKC]
Date: Fri, Jan 9, 2015 16:56
To: ASKC@yahoogroups.com;
Subject:RE: [ASKC] Scopes for Sale


Joe,
Newtonian or Refractor or other dioptric?
-Stuart

From: ASKC@yahoogroups.com [mailto:ASKC@yahoogroups.com]
Sent: Friday, January 9, 2015 3:22 PM
To: ASKC On Yahoogroups
Subject: [ASKC] Scopes for Sale


Are there any 6"-8" scopes for sale from any society members?

Thanks,

Joe

_______________________________________________________________________________

Joseph S. Wright

Cell Phone:  (913) 208-0924

Operations Manager, Warkoczewski Observatory-UMKC

Vice-President, Astronomical Society of Kansas City
Solar System Ambassador, NASA/JPL Volunteer Program
Girl Scouts of NE Kansas-NW Missouri  Aerospace/Astronomy/Weather S.T.E.M. Specialist

Nice to see technology of Sprint is still screwed up.  When will they do the right thing and shut down.

I replied about Lovejoy and for sale message. 

I give up.

This was a direct message.

Joe 

Happy Connecting.  Sent from my Sprint Phone.

Nine of us braved the cold for a couple of hours tonight. The little
propane heater knock the edge off of the 5 degree weather. Comet Lovejoy
was huge in the 42 mm eyepiece of the LCT telescope. I couldn't say for
certain that I saw any tail but I did notice a definite greenish hue. I
could see some movement had occurred after about an hour. There was a faint
star at the outer edge of the coma that help with noticing the movement. We
stopped briefly at M-42 and of course Jupiter before calling it a night.

Guess who didn't get the alarm turned off when he went in.

Sent via Gmail from David Young

We finally got clear skies and tolerable wind, and found Lovejoy to be very nice in 7x35 and 8x42 binocs.  Wish it was warm enough to break out a scope.  Maybe in the coming nights.  If we had stayed out a little longer it may have been naked eye as it is in a dark part of our sky.  Looking forward to at least use a 6" f8 on it.

George and JoDee

> It's nice to see on here Mike. I haven't seen you in a while. Tom J Martinez

Thanks Tom, I got in to photography, for other people for quite a while, to pay for Miranda's flight lessons. That took so much of my time. Then a divorce this past year that I was not expecting. But on the positive side, I will marry again on Valentines Day and that will start a new chapter in my life. I am going to all but give up photography, for other people, and consentrate on being happy and enjoying the things that I want to do. 

Mike Myer
Humboldt, KS.

The 4 horsemen are off to the DSS for a fun day of camera installation and
tree trimming. We will be there at 10:30 after a quick stop over at Powell
and then Ms. B's for breakfast.

Avoid the rush and get a good parking spot right in front of the REBB. A
little extra help is ALWAYS appreciated, but what are the odds?

Sent via Gmail from David Young

So, I tried to reply about the comet and the request about scopes for 
sale and you saw for yourself what Sprint delivered.

I had planned to observe, but the bad wheel bearing on the way home 
changed those plans.  Truck is up and I am waiting delivery of the new 
bearing assembly.  My helper wasn't very good last night.  She couldn't 
grasp a wrench with her paws.  Just kept jumping on me.

I was contacted about what type of scope an adult female should get.  I 
will know more with we speak.

As for the comet, I did get some peaks with binoculars when walking 
between garages for tools.  I could see it faintly naked eye.  I was 
very glad a contingent went to Powell to observe it.

Well, now the wait for parts.

See ya,

Joe

-- 
Joseph S. Wright
Cell Phone:  (913) 208-0924
Operations Manager, Warkoczewski Observatory-UMKC
Vice-President, Astronomical Society of Kansas City
Solar System Ambassador, NASA/JPL Volunteer Program
Girl Scouts of NE Kansas-NW Missouri  Aerospace/Astronomy/Weather S.T.E.M. Specialist

My thanks for all the wonderful observing reports on Comet Lovejoy. A real pleasure to read. 

Sorta’ reminds  me that a cosmic gift like this can be enjoyed in every size instrument. From bare eyeballs up the 30” – each giving a different experience. 

Maybe that’s why all really crazy astrogeeks require at least three telescopes, heh-heh! Sadly, my wife does not understand this concept.

Dave Hudgins

dave,  every thing you said was on the money,  I was out last night at 6 degrees with my 8 and 5.5 inch.  I lasted 3 hours. ( lap top froze up ),,  even from 1 mile north of I-35 and lamar our sky here was very good.  comet love joy is ,like you said,  for every body.  I am proud to be a astro-geek.  peace be with you..r.schoenberger
       From: "'David Hudgins' dhudgins@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com>
 To: ASKC club Yahoo <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> 
 Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2015 10:52 AM
 Subject: [ASKC] Great CometObserving Reports
   
    My thanks for all the wonderful observing reports on Comet Lovejoy. A real pleasure to read.  Sorta’ reminds  me that a cosmic gift like this can be enjoyed in every size instrument. From bare eyeballs up the 30” – each giving a different experience.  Maybe that’s why all really crazy astrogeeks require at least three telescopes, heh-heh! 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Had a great day today. Steve,Rick, John and David joined in the fun. 3/4 of the security measures have been done and a WHOLE bunch of the trees were trimmed at the pond. It is now cleared out all the way around. We are going to have one hell of a fire in the near future. Thanks guys.

After printing off a chart from Sky & Telescope, I was finally able to view Comet Lovejoy in my 10x 50 binoculars.  Seems to have a bluish-green glow with a "fringe" connected to it.  If that is the beginning of the tail, it's an interesting shape.  Anybody else seeing this tonight?  I'm viewing from my backyard near Gladstone.

Eliz Brown

PS - thanks, David Y for the little red light you handed out at the XMas party; of course my regular red flashlight just quit on me as I was looking at the chart  and I had to use the little light! 
 

Yes.  Two nights in a row now.  Finding it is getting easier using Aldebaran as 
the starting point.

Joe Alburty

I bought a batch of them after the two Heather Spinelli gave me finally
conked out. I must have 4 or 5 "regular" red lights but use those silly
little lights most of the time. Glad you got some use out it:-)

Sent via Gmail from David Young

On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 8:55 PM, ebrown2323@... [ASKC] <
ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

>
>
> After printing off a chart from Sky & Telescope, I was finally able to
> view Comet Lovejoy in my 10x 50 binoculars.  Seems to have a bluish-green
> glow with a "fringe" connected to it.  If that is the beginning of the
> tail, it's an interesting shape.  Anybody else seeing this tonight?  I'm
> viewing from my backyard near Gladstone.
>
> Eliz Brown
>
> PS - thanks, David Y for the little red light you handed out at the XMas
> party; of course my regular red flashlight just quit on me as I was looking
> at the chart  and I had to use the little light!
>
>
>  
>

bummer on the wheel bearing. I had to replace the left front on the Tahoe a
month ago. Only $1200. Actually it was more than just a wheel bearing.

I didn't see your gizmo at the DSS or Powell but I only did  quick look
around. We intend to go back down in two weeks and I'll try to remember to
do a more intense search if you haven't found it by then.

Sent via Gmail from David Young

On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 8:59 AM, Joseph Wright jos.wright@yahoo.com [ASKC] <
ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

>
>
> So, I tried to reply about the comet and the request about scopes for
> sale and you saw for yourself what Sprint delivered.
>
> I had planned to observe, but the bad wheel bearing on the way home
> changed those plans. Truck is up and I am waiting delivery of the new
> bearing assembly. My helper wasn't very good last night. She couldn't
> grasp a wrench with her paws. Just kept jumping on me.
>
> I was contacted about what type of scope an adult female should get. I
> will know more with we speak.
>
> As for the comet, I did get some peaks with binoculars when walking
> between garages for tools. I could see it faintly naked eye. I was
> very glad a contingent went to Powell to observe it.
>
> Well, now the wait for parts.
>
> See ya,
>
> Joe
>
> --
> Joseph S. Wright
> Cell Phone: (913) 208-0924
> Operations Manager, Warkoczewski Observatory-UMKC
> Vice-President, Astronomical Society of Kansas City
> Solar System Ambassador, NASA/JPL Volunteer Program
> Girl Scouts of NE Kansas-NW Missouri Aerospace/Astronomy/Weather S.T.E.M.
> Specialist
>
>  
>

Darn Dave on the $1200 ouch!   I do auto work if your ever up in North kc.  I charge 50% of what shops do or so.   Master certified too.   :) 



David Stewart scidav87@...

On Saturday, January 10, 2015 David Young youngmdavid <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

  

bummer on the wheel bearing. I had to replace the left front on the Tahoe a month ago. Only $1200. Actually it was more than just a wheel bearing. 


I didn't see your gizmo at the DSS or Powell but I only did  quick look around. We intend to go back down in two weeks and I'll try to remember to do a more intense search if you haven't found it by then. 


Sent via Gmail from David Young 


On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 8:59 AM, Joseph Wright jos.wright@... [ASKC] <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote: 

  

So, I tried to reply about the comet and the request about scopes for 
sale and you saw for yourself what Sprint delivered.

I had planned to observe, but the bad wheel bearing on the way home 
changed those plans. Truck is up and I am waiting delivery of the new 
bearing assembly. My helper wasn't very good last night. She couldn't 
grasp a wrench with her paws. Just kept jumping on me.

I was contacted about what type of scope an adult female should get. I 
will know more with we speak.

As for the comet, I did get some peaks with binoculars when walking 
between garages for tools. I could see it faintly naked eye. I was 
very glad a contingent went to Powell to observe it.

Well, now the wait for parts.

See ya,

Joe

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Cell Phone: (913) 208-0924
Operations Manager, Warkoczewski Observatory-UMKC
Vice-President, Astronomical Society of Kansas City
Solar System Ambassador, NASA/JPL Volunteer Program
Girl Scouts of NE Kansas-NW Missouri Aerospace/Astronomy/Weather S.T.E.M. Specialist


 

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From my back yard in Prairie Village it was easy to pick up in 7x50's. In my 8" newt at 40x it was a big diffuse blob with a strong nucleus. I couldn't detect much color, maybe just a tad green, but no discernible tail. I took some photos which I'll post if there's anything decent when I get done processing.

---- "David Young youngmdavid@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote: 
> I bought a batch of them after the two Heather Spinelli gave me finally
> conked out. I must have 4 or 5 "regular" red lights but use those silly
> little lights most of the time. Glad you got some use out it:-)
> 
> Sent via Gmail from David Young
> 
> On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 8:55 PM, ebrown2323@... [ASKC] <
> ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> > After printing off a chart from Sky & Telescope, I was finally able to
> > view Comet Lovejoy in my 10x 50 binoculars.  Seems to have a bluish-green
> > glow with a "fringe" connected to it.  If that is the beginning of the
> > tail, it's an interesting shape.  Anybody else seeing this tonight?  I'm
> > viewing from my backyard near Gladstone.
> >
> > Eliz Brown
> >
> > PS - thanks, David Y for the little red light you handed out at the XMas
> > party; of course my regular red flashlight just quit on me as I was looking
> > at the chart  and I had to use the little light!
> >
> >
> >  
> >

Hi Folks, 

I have now completed a slow investment transition to all Tele Vue eyepieces. So I have several  fine eyepieces that perform very well and that I enjoyed using  - but are now duplicated by my TV’s. These eyepieces are much better than the usual eyepieces that come standard  with telescopes. I’d like to see them back in good use and enjoyed under the stars.

1.      26mm Orion Q70 wide field 2” eyepiece – 70 degree FOV, five element, multicoated, exactly like new in the original box. Threaded for standard 2” filters. Purchased new for $99, sell for $65.

2.      26mm Celestron Silver Top Plossl 1-1/4” – much superior to the Meade Series 3000 26mm Plossl that comes standard with LX200 scopes. I have two for sale (previously a matched set for my binoviewer). $22 each. 



Fully guaranteed that you’ll be happy. Anyone interested before I put on Cloudy Nights? Please contact me  directly at dhudgins@....

Dave Hudgins

dhudgins@...

David I will take one of. the Celestron 26mm.
Gil Machin

From: mailto:ASKC@yahoogroups.com 
Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2015 6:12 PM
To: ASKC club Yahoo 
Subject: [ASKC] NIce Eyepieces for Sale




Hi Folks, 

I have now completed a slow investment transition to all Tele Vue eyepieces. So I have several  fine eyepieces that perform very well and that I enjoyed using  - but are now duplicated by my TV’s. These eyepieces are much better than the usual eyepieces that come standard  with telescopes. I’d like to see them back in good use and enjoyed under the stars.

1.      26mm Orion Q70 wide field 2” eyepiece – 70 degree FOV, five element, multicoated, exactly like new in the original box. Threaded for standard 2” filters. Purchased new for $99, sell for $65.

2.      26mm Celestron Silver Top Plossl 1-1/4” – much superior to the Meade Series 3000 26mm Plossl that comes standard with LX200 scopes. I have two for sale (previously a matched set for my binoviewer). $22 each. 



Fully guaranteed that you’ll be happy. Anyone interested before I put on Cloudy Nights? Please contact me  directly at dhudgins@....

Dave Hudgins

dhudgins@...

Here's a crude time-lapse spanning 6 minutes that shows the motion relative to background stars. It was rather windy so things were bouncing around a bit. Taken through a green filter.
http://youtu.be/BaKU-diUClM

and a still:
http://www.astrobin.com/147694/


---- "alehman@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote: 
> From my back yard in Prairie Village it was easy to pick up in 7x50's. In my 8" newt at 40x it was a big diffuse blob with a strong nucleus. I couldn't detect much color, maybe just a tad green, but no discernible tail. I took some photos which I'll post if there's anything decent when I get done processing.
> 
> ---- "David Young youngmdavid@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote: 
> > I bought a batch of them after the two Heather Spinelli gave me finally
> > conked out. I must have 4 or 5 "regular" red lights but use those silly
> > little lights most of the time. Glad you got some use out it:-)
> > 
> > Sent via Gmail from David Young
> > 
> > On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 8:55 PM, ebrown2323@... [ASKC] <
> > ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
> > 
> > >
> > >
> > > After printing off a chart from Sky & Telescope, I was finally able to
> > > view Comet Lovejoy in my 10x 50 binoculars.  Seems to have a bluish-green
> > > glow with a "fringe" connected to it.  If that is the beginning of the
> > > tail, it's an interesting shape.  Anybody else seeing this tonight?  I'm
> > > viewing from my backyard near Gladstone.
> > >
> > > Eliz Brown
> > >
> > > PS - thanks, David Y for the little red light you handed out at the XMas
> > > party; of course my regular red flashlight just quit on me as I was looking
> > > at the chart  and I had to use the little light!
> > >
> > >
> > >  
> > >
> 

Hi All,
The next time there are tree fellings and/or trimmings at the DSS, please seriously consider following the Missouri Department of Conversation's suggestion and resist the temptation to burn the brush. Instead, collect them together to make as many knee-high to thigh-high brush piles as you can on the timber edges where they meet grass. This creates desperately needed edge cover for cotton tails and, more importantly, bob whites.
Kind regards,Matthew (玛虬宿) Valdivia, Principal (主任)BRANDS de LUXE, l.l.c. (品牌 的 豪华)
Manufacturers Representatives (厂家销售代表事务所)
Cellular (816)273-3665
matthew@brandsdeluxe.org

We've been asked to participate in this event again.  Information is below.  Let us know if you plan to help.   No special training or equipment required.  This is fun for all level of astronomers.   Thanks, Joe  Corinth Elementary SchoolThursday, March 56:00-7:30 PM   Display in the library and Telescope set up on the sidewalk Janice Norton8301 Mission Rd.Prairie Village, KS 66206
(913) 993-2900 https://www.google.com/maps/place/Corinth+Elementary+School/@38.9780313,-94.6298083,380m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0xb67e201904dad403_______________________________________________________________________________

Joseph S. Wright

Cell Phone:  (913) 208-0924

Operations Manager, Warkoczewski Observatory-UMKC

Vice-President, Astronomical Society of Kansas City
Solar System Ambassador, NASA/JPL Volunteer Program
Girl Scouts of NE Kansas-NW Missouri  Aerospace/Astronomy/Weather S.T.E.M. Specialist

Thanks. Camera was my Basler acA640 at prime focus on my 8" newt. As you can tell, it has a very small field of view - about 6'x9'.
 

---- "Dave Stewart scidav87@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote: 

Whether new to the ASKC or been here a few trips aroundthe Sun, don’t be turned off about helping at these school science events.  So, you don’t have a telescope or in depthknowledge, you don’t need to.  We wouldlove to have you just as you are and hands free.  We need people to help with displays, relievemembers at the telescopes outside and just do traffic control andsecurity.  Extra eyes around meteoritesdisplays are always welcomed.  Givingsomeone a break at a scope to take a few minutes in side for warming up,refreshments or just to walk around and see the other science going on is a bigtreat.  Don’t forget, helping at theseevents helps you to develop as an astronomer, interact with people of all agesand learn more about astronomy.  Why?1)    Itis inherent in humans to pass down information to the next generation.2)    Schoolshave about 2 weeks for science and/or astronomy.  This is very little time when we are alltraveling at 67,000 miles an hour through space on starship Earth.3)    Whobetter to inspire the next generation or two to get involved in science?  You will never know what fire you sparked ina kid.4)    Theshear self-pleasure and gratitude you will fell when you hear “Wow” or eventhose other two words, “thank you.”5)    You mightbe introducing a young person to a new hobby of field of work.  Amateur Astronomy needs more youth and thereare other things battling for their interest and time.  6)    Earnthe Astronomical League’s Outreach Award.7)    BECAUSEIT IS FUN!!! On the flip side, I know someone out there is saying “why should we get involved” or “I didn’t join to help some kid” and I respect this.  But, if you want to tell me privately why the ASKC should not do outreach, I would be willing, without any ill feelings, to hear from you.   How do we keep amateur astronomy growing if we don't get young people involved? The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to ignite (paraphrasing Plutarch)

Thanks,Joe  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 






 
  

   

  _______________________________________________________________________________

Joseph S. Wright

Cell Phone:  (913) 208-0924

Operations Manager, Warkoczewski Observatory-UMKC

Vice-President, Astronomical Society of Kansas City
Solar System Ambassador, NASA/JPL Volunteer Program
Girl Scouts of NE Kansas-NW Missouri  Aerospace/Astronomy/Weather S.T.E.M. Specialist

Sni-A-Bar Elementary School701 Southwest Eagles ParkwayGrain Valley, MO 64029
(816) 847-5020Tuesday, February 17th6:00-8:00 pmhttps://www.google.com/maps/@39.0099064,-94.2061175,17z I-70 East to exit 24 and go South to SW Eagle Parkway (MO Aa).  West from there about a mile.  School on South side of road.  This is about the fifth or sixth year or so I have been out there and at different times so have Rita, John Fitzgerald and David Fox.    We setup inside with meteorite display and show Stellarium.  Weather permitting, scopes outside.   After the event, we go about a 1,000 feet East to El Magauy Mexican restaurant and debrief...down some tacos and maybe a beer.     Joe_______________________________________________________________________________

Joseph S. Wright

Cell Phone:  (913) 208-0924

Operations Manager, Warkoczewski Observatory-UMKC

Vice-President, Astronomical Society of Kansas City
Solar System Ambassador, NASA/JPL Volunteer Program
Girl Scouts of NE Kansas-NW Missouri  Aerospace/Astronomy/Weather S.T.E.M. Specialist

You got it. Teacher Resource DayFebruary 7, 20159am to 12 noonUMKC Student Union This is an adult event and about 300 or more teachers from a wide area of KS/MO attend.  This is more about getting the word out about the ASKC, Powell Observatory and Warkoczewski Public Observatory.  We and out fliers and show Stellarium.  We may also do a few demos on scale of the Solar System or Planispheres.  Various members have helped over the past decade.   The ASKC table is one of the most visited tables and I sweet talked the lady some years ago and we get the prime spot.  The fist table at the door.  Everyone enters through this door.  I do setup a C8 and PST combo on the balcony during the event. A few helpers would be nice and Jalapenos' is nice for lunch. I think this is the last request that came to me directly.  And yes, I do have a preferred menu theme. Thanks, Joe _______________________________________________________________________________

Joseph S. Wright

Cell Phone:  (913) 208-0924

Operations Manager, Warkoczewski Observatory-UMKC

Vice-President, Astronomical Society of Kansas City
Solar System Ambassador, NASA/JPL Volunteer Program
Girl Scouts of NE Kansas-NW Missouri  Aerospace/Astronomy/Weather S.T.E.M. Specialist

Hi Folks,

Yep, looks like I have buyers for all the EPs. Thanks for the interest.  : ^ )

Dave H. 

We have considered this in the past and it was decided that there is plenty of cover for the forest critters in the surrounding timber. Having additional piles could/may encourage critters we don't want like skunks. Having rabbits around the buildings also increases their predators. Our last shower house was constantly being undermined by animals trying to get to the bunnies living under it.
Darrick

"We have considered this in the past and it was decided that there is plenty of cover for the forest critters in the surrounding timber. Having additional piles could/may encourage critters we don't want like skunks. Having rabbits around the buildings also increases their predators. Our last shower house was constantly being undermined by animals trying to get to the bunnies living under it.
Darrick"
Hi Darrick,
Thanks for the thoughtful response. It's great to hear that conservation and wildlife are being considered in plans for the DSS.
That said, something really needs to be clarified. The idea that the forest is enough for these particular species is a very common misconception, and precisely why the MDC stresses this point in communications with land owners. These are not "forest critters", they are animals that need "edge cover" or "buffer zone" habitat. There is no shortage of soft and hard wood timber in this state - there's plenty of primary, secondary and old growth forest here. And there is no shortage of grass and pasture. What is missing, to the detriment of several species, including prairie chickens, bob-white quail and cotton tail rabbits is native grass and legume prairie habitat and edge/buffer habitat. The prairie dependent species are largely just screwed as a result of development, commercial, residential and agricultural alike, and have been for over 100 years. However, through the late 1970's - early 1980's the edge/buffer dependent species were hanging on and remained relatively abundant because most farmers were maintaining buffers between their row crops and pasture and their timbered drainage's and forests. They also often allowed buffers off of their fence lines and allowed them to go relatively feral, doing occasional controlled burns which, if timed correctly, were also helpful to the edge-dependent wildlife. This has changed in the last 20+ years though as pressures have increased on farmers to eek every last bit of yield out of their tillable and pastured acreage. So now they farm in the same way the DSS is laid out - crops and or sod right up to the tree lines and right up to the fences. As a result, rabbits have become the domain of the suburbs, and bob white quail in Missouri are now extremely rare and hanging on by a thread.
Obviously this isn't my decision to make, and I'm only making a suggestion, not trying to impose my will. I'm simply hoping to point out that as amateur astronomers we claim to be scientifically minded/motivated/literate. As such we should be intellectually honest about why a decision or specific course of action is being taken. If the putative use of the DSS is inherently incompatible with certain wildlife conservation measures, then that is fine, pragmatic and perfectly reasonable. And the contention that outdoor bathrooms/showers as they exist at the DSS are inherently incompatible with edge-cover dependent species restoration measures is a very sound and logical contention. It's just not well-informed or intellectually honest to say that these species are "doing just fine in the surrounding forest" as a rationale, because good empirical science demonstrates that they are not.
I'm not trying to disparage any one person, or groups of people personally. As a member I'm extremely proud of the DSS and what the club has done with it with very limited resources. I applaud and appreciate the excellent work and improvements to the DSS over the years. It is a jewel in the crown of our members and I look forward to seeing it continue to evolve and improve in the years to come! 
 Kind regards,Matthew ( 玛虬宿 ) Valdivia, Principal ( 主任 )BRANDS de LUXE, l.l.c. ( 品牌 的 豪华 )
Manufacturers Representatives ( 厂家销售代表事务所 )
Cellular (816)273-3665
matthew@... 

     On Monday, January 12, 2015 2:43 AM, "Matthew Valdivia valdivia_matthew@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
   

     Hi All,
The next time there are tree fellings and/or trimmings at the DSS, please seriously consider following the Missouri Department of Conversation's suggestion and resist the temptation to burn the brush. Instead, collect them together to make as many knee-high to thigh-high brush piles as you can on the timber edges where they meet grass. This creates desperately needed edge cover for cotton tails and, more importantly, bob whites.
Kind regards,Matthew (玛虬宿) Valdivia, Principal (主任)BRANDS de LUXE, l.l.c. (品牌 的 豪华)
Manufacturers Representatives (厂家销售代表事务所)
Cellular (816)273-3665
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Very cool video Alan. I'm curious why you used a green filter? Did you shoot it without the filter? Tom J Martinez
http://tomjmartinez.blogspot.com/ 

     On Monday, January 12, 2015 8:33 AM, "alehman@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
   

     Thanks. Camera was my Basler acA640 at prime focus on my 8" newt. As you can tell, it has a very small field of view - about 6'x9'.
 

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Matthew, I tried mentioning this idea of creating shelter for animals but got the same response. Thanks for the information on this. Tom J Martinez
http://tomjmartinez.blogspot.com/ 

     On Monday, January 12, 2015 11:37 AM, "Matthew Valdivia valdivia_matthew@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
   

     "We have considered this in the past and it was decided that there is plenty of cover for the forest critters in the surrounding timber. Having additional piles could/may encourage critters we don't want like skunks. Having rabbits around the buildings also increases their predators. Our last shower house was constantly being undermined by animals trying to get to the bunnies living under it.
Darrick"
Hi Darrick,
Thanks for the thoughtful response. It's great to hear that conservation and wildlife are being considered in plans for the DSS.
That said, something really needs to be clarified. The idea that the forest is enough for these particular species is a very common misconception, and precisely why the MDC stresses this point in communications with land owners. These are not "forest critters", they are animals that need "edge cover" or "buffer zone" habitat. There is no shortage of soft and hard wood timber in this state - there's plenty of primary, secondary and old growth forest here. And there is no shortage of grass and pasture. What is missing, to the detriment of several species, including prairie chickens, bob-white quail and cotton tail rabbits is native grass and legume prairie habitat and edge/buffer habitat. The prairie dependent species are largely just screwed as a result of development, commercial, residential and agricultural alike, and have been for over 100 years. However, through the late 1970's - early 1980's the edge/buffer dependent species were hanging on and remained relatively abundant because most farmers were maintaining buffers between their row crops and pasture and their timbered drainage's and forests. They also often allowed buffers off of their fence lines and allowed them to go relatively feral, doing occasional controlled burns which, if timed correctly, were also helpful to the edge-dependent wildlife. This has changed in the last 20+ years though as pressures have increased on farmers to eek every last bit of yield out of their tillable and pastured acreage. So now they farm in the same way the DSS is laid out - crops and or sod right up to the tree lines and right up to the fences. As a result, rabbits have become the domain of the suburbs, and bob white quail in Missouri are now extremely rare and hanging on by a thread.
Obviously this isn't my decision to make, and I'm only making a suggestion, not trying to impose my will. I'm simply hoping to point out that as amateur astronomers we claim to be scientifically minded/motivated/literate. As such we should be intellectually honest about why a decision or specific course of action is being taken. If the putative use of the DSS is inherently incompatible with certain wildlife conservation measures, then that is fine, pragmatic and perfectly reasonable. And the contention that outdoor bathrooms/showers as they exist at the DSS are inherently incompatible with edge-cover dependent species restoration measures is a very sound and logical contention. It's just not well-informed or intellectually honest to say that these species are "doing just fine in the surrounding forest" as a rationale, because good empirical science demonstrates that they are not.
I'm not trying to disparage any one person, or groups of people personally. As a member I'm extremely proud of the DSS and what the club has done with it with very limited resources. I applaud and appreciate the excellent work and improvements to the DSS over the years. It is a jewel in the crown of our members and I look forward to seeing it continue to evolve and improve in the years to come! 
 Kind regards,Matthew ( 玛虬宿 ) Valdivia, Principal ( 主任 )BRANDS de LUXE, l.l.c. ( 品牌 的 豪华 )
Manufacturers Representatives ( 厂家销售代表事务所 )
Cellular (816)273-3665
matthew@... 

     On Monday, January 12, 2015 2:43 AM, "Matthew Valdivia valdivia_matthew@yahoo.com [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
   

     Hi All,
The next time there are tree fellings and/or trimmings at the DSS, please seriously consider following the Missouri Department of Conversation's suggestion and resist the temptation to burn the brush. Instead, collect them together to make as many knee-high to thigh-high brush piles as you can on the timber edges where they meet grass. This creates desperately needed edge cover for cotton tails and, more importantly, bob whites.
Kind regards,Matthew (玛虬宿) Valdivia, Principal (主任)BRANDS de LUXE, l.l.c. (品牌 的 豪华)
Manufacturers Representatives (厂家销售代表事务所)
Cellular (816)273-3665
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As an ASKC member and owner of a 3 acre rural homesite, I would like to reinforce Matthew and Tom.

Our 2 brush piles have attracted numerous critters that failed to take advantage of wood lots and prairie adjacent.  Our brush piles are topped with evergreen pruning and are used by small birds all year long as resting and singing platforms.  

The animals that tried to dig under the buildings would either be groundhogs &/or farmers loose dogs.  This can be controlled by putting an 18" fillet of crushed limestone, at least 4" deep at the foundation, around the building.  This will also stop having to trim grass there and mud from splashing onto the building.

At the DSS the trees are far enough away from buildings and campground that should any undesirable animals move in they would not bother us.  At any rate, rats will not live in a healthy habitat with native animals.  Mice  live everywhere, regardless.  

We need snakes, birds of prey, ground nesting birds such as pheasant and quail, and other native critters.  They create a healthy symbiotic family.  

The most efficient "mousers" are hawks, kestrels, fox and bull snakes, not cats who use them as toys.  

Raccoons, opossums and skunks are all harmless unless chased and cornered, and they all fear humans.

Regards,
George Allen

> On Jan 12, 2015, at 11:36 AM, "Matthew Valdivia valdivia_matthew@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> "We have considered this in the past and it was decided that there is plenty of cover for the forest critters in the surrounding timber. Having additional piles could/may encourage critters we don't want like skunks. Having rabbits around the buildings also increases their predators. Our last shower house was constantly being undermined by animals trying to get to the bunnies living under it.
> Darrick"
> 
> Hi Darrick,
> 
> Thanks for the thoughtful response. It's great to hear that conservation and wildlife are being considered in plans for the DSS.
> 
> That said, something really needs to be clarified. The idea that the forest is enough for these particular species is a very common misconception, and precisely why the MDC stresses this point in communications with land owners. These are not "forest critters", they are animals that need "edge cover" or "buffer zone" habitat. There is no shortage of soft and hard wood timber in this state - there's plenty of primary, secondary and old growth forest here. And there is no shortage of grass and pasture. What is missing, to the detriment of several species, including prairie chickens, bob-white quail and cotton tail rabbits is native grass and legume prairie habitat and edge/buffer habitat. The prairie dependent species are largely just screwed as a result of development, commercial, residential and agricultural alike, and have been for over 100 years. However, through the late 1970's - early 1980's the edge/buffer dependent species were hanging on and remained relatively abundant because most farmers were maintaining buffers between their row crops and pasture and their timbered drainage's and forests. They also often allowed buffers off of their fence lines and allowed them to go relatively feral, doing occasional controlled burns which, if timed correctly, were also helpful to the edge-dependent wildlife. This has changed in the last 20+ years though as pressures have increased on farmers to eek every last bit of yield out of their tillable and pastured acreage. So now they farm in the same way the DSS is laid out - crops and or sod right up to the tree lines and right up to the fences. As a result, rabbits have become the domain of the suburbs, and bob white quail in Missouri are now extremely rare and hanging on by a thread.
> 
> Obviously this isn't my decision to make, and I'm only making a suggestion, not trying to impose my will. I'm simply hoping to point out that as amateur astronomers we claim to be scientifically minded/motivated/literate. As such we should be intellectually honest about why a decision or specific course of action is being taken. If the putative use of the DSS is inherently incompatible with certain wildlife conservation measures, then that is fine, pragmatic and perfectly reasonable. And the contention that outdoor bathrooms/showers as they exist at the DSS are inherently incompatible with edge-cover dependent species restoration measures is a very sound and logical contention. It's just not well-informed or intellectually honest to say that these species are "doing just fine in the surrounding forest" as a rationale, because good empirical science demonstrates that they are not.
> 
> I'm not trying to disparage any one person, or groups of people personally. As a member I'm extremely proud of the DSS and what the club has done with it with very limited resources. I applaud and appreciate the excellent work and improvements to the DSS over the years. It is a jewel in the crown of our members and I look forward to seeing it continue to evolve and improve in the years to come! 
>  
> Kind regards,
> Matthew ( 玛虬宿 ) Valdivia, Principal ( 主任 )
> BRANDS de LUXE, l.l.c. ( 品牌 的 豪华 )
> Manufacturers Representatives ( 厂家销售代表事务所 )
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> matthew@brandsdeluxe.org
> 
> 
> On Monday, January 12, 2015 2:43 AM, "Matthew Valdivia valdivia_matthew@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> The next time there are tree fellings and/or trimmings at the DSS, please seriously consider following the Missouri Department of Conversation's suggestion and resist the temptation to burn the brush. Instead, collect them together to make as many knee-high to thigh-high brush piles as you can on the timber edges where they meet grass. This creates desperately needed edge cover for cotton tails and, more importantly, bob whites.
> 
> Kind regards,
> Matthew (玛虬宿) Valdivia, Principal (主任)
> BRANDS de LUXE, l.l.c. (品牌 的 豪华)
> Manufacturers Representatives (厂家销售代表事务所)
> Cellular (816)273-3665
> matthew@...
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 

 david.  I love my little red light that you gave me at Christmas party, I have a couple larger red lights, but like my little light better  thank you  r. schoenberger

Thanks Tom. I'd like to give you some fancy scientific explanation, but reality is it was the filter in my wheel that seemed to give the best contrast with my light-polluted sky.

---- "Tom Martinez zenitrammot@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote: 
> Very cool video Alan. I'm curious why you used a green filter? Did you shoot it without the filter? Tom J Martinez
> http://tomjmartinez.blogspot.com/ 
> 
>      On Monday, January 12, 2015 8:33 AM, "alehman@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
>    
> 
>      Thanks. Camera was my Basler acA640 at prime focus on my 8" newt. As you can tell, it has a very small field of view - about 6'x9'.
>  
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>    

Does anyone have an lx200 that could please tell me what the size of the screws are that hold the counter weight bar in place? We have the camera and new weights but the old screws were removed and never replaced.
Thanks, Darrick

In light of the clarifications presented I think Darrick might be receptive to piling at least some of the brush at the tree line at the corner to the south east of the REBB. Some brush could also be moved to the east tree line of the south field. I think those who want to do this should submit to Darrick a plan and a list of volunteers that will move the brush. It will need to be moved soon because the burning will likely be done this month. Keep in mind there is an easement along the tree line east of the REBB that we MUST keep open for Oerke to farm the land down by the river. He also has an easement along the tree line to the south of the REBB that must be kept open.

Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE DROID

"Matthew Valdivia valdivia_matthew@yahoo.com [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

>  
>
>"We have considered this in the past and it was decided that there is plenty of cover for the forest critters in the surrounding timber. Having additional piles could/may encourage critters we don't want like skunks. Having rabbits around the buildings also increases their predators. Our last shower house was constantly being undermined by animals trying to get to the bunnies living under it.
>Darrick"
>
>
>Hi Darrick,
>
>
>Thanks for the thoughtful response. It's great to hear that conservation and wildlife are being considered in plans for the DSS.
>
>
>That said, something really needs to be clarified. The idea that the forest is enough for these particular species is a very common misconception, and precisely why the MDC stresses this point in communications with land owners. These are not "forest critters", they are animals that need "edge cover" or "buffer zone" habitat. There is no shortage of soft and hard wood timber in this state - there's plenty of primary, secondary and old growth forest here. And there is no shortage of grass and pasture. What is missing, to the detriment of several species, including prairie chickens, bob-white quail and cotton tail rabbits is native grass and legume prairie habitat and edge/buffer habitat. The prairie dependent species are largely just screwed as a result of development, commercial, residential and agricultural alike, and have been for over 100 years. However, through the late 1970's - early 1980's the edge/buffer dependent species were hanging on and remained relatively abundant because most farmers were maintaining buffers between their row crops and pasture and their timbered drainage's and forests. They also often allowed buffers off of their fence lines and allowed them to go relatively feral, doing occasional controlled burns which, if timed correctly, were also helpful to the edge-dependent wildlife. This has changed in the last 20+ years though as pressures have increased on farmers to eek every last bit of yield out of their tillable and pastured acreage. So now they farm in the same way the DSS is laid out - crops and or sod right up to the tree lines and right up to the fences. As a result, rabbits have become the domain of the suburbs, and bob white quail in Missouri are now extremely rare and hanging on by a thread.
>
>
>Obviously this isn't my decision to make, and I'm only making a suggestion, not trying to impose my will. I'm simply hoping to point out that as amateur astronomers we claim to be scientifically minded/motivated/literate. As such we should be intellectually honest about why a decision or specific course of action is being taken. If the putative use of the DSS is inherently incompatible with certain wildlife conservation measures, then that is fine, pragmatic and perfectly reasonable. And the contention that outdoor bathrooms/showers as they exist at the DSS are inherently incompatible with edge-cover dependent species restoration measures is a very sound and logical contention. It's just not well-informed or intellectually honest to say that these species are "doing just fine in the surrounding forest" as a rationale, because good empirical science demonstrates that they are not.
>
>
>I'm not trying to disparage any one person, or groups of people personally. As a member I'm extremely proud of the DSS and what the club has done with it with very limited resources. I applaud and appreciate the excellent work and improvements to the DSS over the years. It is a jewel in the crown of our members and I look forward to seeing it continue to evolve and improve in the years to come! 
>
> 
>
>Kind regards,
>
>Matthew ( 玛虬宿 ) Valdivia, Principal ( 主任 )
>
>BRANDS de LUXE, l.l.c. ( 品牌 的 豪华 )
>Manufacturers Representatives ( 厂家销售代表事务所 )
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>
>
>
>On Monday, January 12, 2015 2:43 AM, "Matthew Valdivia valdivia_matthew@yahoo.com [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
>
>
>
>  
>
>Hi All,
>
>
>The next time there are tree fellings and/or trimmings at the DSS, please seriously consider following the Missouri Department of Conversation's suggestion and resist the temptation to burn the brush. Instead, collect them together to make as many knee-high to thigh-high brush piles as you can on the timber edges where they meet grass. This creates desperately needed edge cover for cotton tails and, more importantly, bob whites.
>
>
>Kind regards,
>
>Matthew (玛虬宿) Valdivia, Principal (主任)
>
>BRANDS de LUXE, l.l.c. (品牌 的 豪华)
>Manufacturers Representatives (厂家销售代表事务所)
>Cellular (816)273-3665
>matthew@brandsdeluxe.org
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
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Interesting. I would think that green would allow more of the light pollution in, since a lot of the time light pollution shows up as a greenish cast, especially on DSLR cameras. Since your camera is not a DSLR, that may make the difference. Tom J Martinez
http://tomjmartinez.blogspot.com/ 

     On Monday, January 12, 2015 3:21 PM, "alehman@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
   

     Thanks Tom. I'd like to give you some fancy scientific explanation, but reality is it was the filter in my wheel that seemed to give the best contrast with my light-polluted sky.

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at 1750 venus and mercury finally above the tree line at my house.  the pair make a lovely sight.. 

Hi Dave,
I would be more than willing to volunteer some time to this task. That said, I'm very bad with written descriptions. Is there an aerial photograph of the DSS with the legal plat boundaries and easements clearly marked? If so, has it been posted to this group's file storage? If not, would anyone that has access to those images and the boundary/easement knowledge to properly mark them on the image be willing to post such an image so we can all be on the same page about what is and is not allowed?   Kind regards,Matthew ( 玛虬宿 ) Valdivia, Principal ( 主任 )BRANDS de LUXE, l.l.c. ( 品牌 的 豪华 )
Manufacturers Representatives ( 厂家销售代表事务所 )
Cellular (816)273-3665
matthew@... 

     On Monday, January 12, 2015 4:26 PM, "David Young youngmdavid@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
   

     In light of the clarifications presented I think Darrick might be receptive to piling at least some of the brush at the tree line at the corner to the south east of the REBB. Some brush could also be moved to the east tree line of the south field. I think those who want to do this should submit to Darrick a plan and a list of volunteers that will move the brush. It will need to be moved soon because the burning will likely be done this month. Keep in mind there is an easement along the tree line east of the REBB that we MUST keep open for Oerke to farm the land down by the river. He also has an easement along the tree line to the south of the REBB that must be kept open.
Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE DROID

"Matthew Valdivia valdivia_matthew@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

   "We have considered this in the past and it was decided that there is plenty of cover for the forest critters in the surrounding timber. Having additional piles could/may encourage critters we don't want like skunks. Having rabbits around the buildings also increases their predators. Our last shower house was constantly being undermined by animals trying to get to the bunnies living under it.
Darrick"
Hi Darrick,
Thanks for the thoughtful response. It's great to hear that conservation and wildlife are being considered in plans for the DSS.
That said, something really needs to be clarified. The idea that the forest is enough for these particular species is a very common misconception, and precisely why the MDC stresses this point in communications with land owners. These are not "forest critters", they are animals that need "edge cover" or "buffer zone" habitat. There is no shortage of soft and hard wood timber in this state - there's plenty of primary, secondary and old growth forest here. And there is no shortage of grass and pasture. What is missing, to the detriment of several species, including prairie chickens, bob-white quail and cotton tail rabbits is native grass and legume prairie habitat and edge/buffer habitat. The prairie dependent species are largely just screwed as a result of development, commercial, residential and agricultural alike, and have been for over 100 years. However, through the late 1970's - early 1980's the edge/buffer dependent species were hanging on and remained relatively abundant because most farmers were maintaining buffers between their row crops and pasture and their timbered drainage's and forests. They also often allowed buffers off of their fence lines and allowed them to go relatively feral, doing occasional controlled burns which, if timed correctly, were also helpful to the edge-dependent wildlife. This has changed in the last 20+ years though as pressures have increased on farmers to eek every last bit of yield out of their tillable and pastured acreage. So now they farm in the same way the DSS is laid out - crops and or sod right up to the tree lines and right up to the fences. As a result, rabbits have become the domain of the suburbs, and bob white quail in Missouri are now extremely rare and hanging on by a thread.
Obviously this isn't my decision to make, and I'm only making a suggestion, not trying to impose my will. I'm simply hoping to point out that as amateur astronomers we claim to be scientifically minded/motivated/literate. As such we should be intellectually honest about why a decision or specific course of action is being taken. If the putative use of the DSS is inherently incompatible with certain wildlife conservation measures, then that is fine, pragmatic and perfectly reasonable. And the contention that outdoor bathrooms/showers as they exist at the DSS are inherently incompatible with edge-cover dependent species restoration measures is a very sound and logical contention. It's just not well-informed or intellectually honest to say that these species are "doing just fine in the surrounding forest" as a rationale, because good empirical science demonstrates that they are not.
I'm not trying to disparage any one person, or groups of people personally. As a member I'm extremely proud of the DSS and what the club has done with it with very limited resources. I applaud and appreciate the excellent work and improvements to the DSS over the years. It is a jewel in the crown of our members and I look forward to seeing it continue to evolve and improve in the years to come! 
 Kind regards,Matthew ( 玛虬宿 ) Valdivia, Principal ( 主任 )BRANDS de LUXE, l.l.c. ( 品牌 的 豪华 )
Manufacturers Representatives ( 厂家销售代表事务所 )
Cellular (816)273-3665
matthew@... 

     On Monday, January 12, 2015 2:43 AM, "Matthew Valdivia valdivia_matthew@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
   

     Hi All,
The next time there are tree fellings and/or trimmings at the DSS, please seriously consider following the Missouri Department of Conversation's suggestion and resist the temptation to burn the brush. Instead, collect them together to make as many knee-high to thigh-high brush piles as you can on the timber edges where they meet grass. This creates desperately needed edge cover for cotton tails and, more importantly, bob whites.
Kind regards,Matthew (玛虬宿) Valdivia, Principal (主任)BRANDS de LUXE, l.l.c. (品牌 的 豪华)
Manufacturers Representatives (厂家销售代表事务所)
Cellular (816)273-3665
matthew@...


  

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If you download Google Earth and locate the DSS property you can zoom in on
the site. You will be able to see the outline of the ASKC's property as a
long rectangle defined on the north end by the mowed area and on the west
by a fence running along the access road. If you zoom up you can clearly
see the new shower and the tire tracks of the path used by the farm
equipment along the tree line. The property line to the east is in the tree
line and there is a fence along the line. There are property line posts
along the west edges of the observing field. There is a line of trees south
of the building and a scout area south of that. Brush piles could also be
place in the corner north east of that area. I also see a notch in the east
tree line that might be a suitable location. The entire 40 acres has been
surveyed but I don't know who has the survey documents. I've attached a
screen shot of the site to help you visualize the boundaries.

Any planned brush piles should be approved by Darrick Gray BEFORE you do
it.

Sent via Gmail from David Young

On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 7:24 PM, Matthew Valdivia valdivia_matthew@...
[ASKC] <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

>
>
> Hi Dave,
>
> I would be more than willing to volunteer some time to this task. That
> said, I'm very bad with written descriptions. Is there an aerial photograph
> of the DSS with the legal plat boundaries and easements clearly marked? If
> so, has it been posted to this group's file storage? If not, would anyone
> that has access to those images and the boundary/easement knowledge to
> properly mark them on the image be willing to post such an image so we can
> all be on the same page about what is and is not allowed?
>
> Kind regards,
> *Matthew ( 玛虬宿 ) Valdivia, Principal ( 主任 )*
> *BRANDS de LUXE, l.l.c. ( 品牌 的 豪华 )*
> Manufacturers Representatives ( 厂家销售代表事务所 )
> Cellular (816)273-3665
> matthew@...
>
>
>   On Monday, January 12, 2015 4:26 PM, "David Young youngmdavid@...
> [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
>
>
>
>  In light of the clarifications presented I think Darrick might be
> receptive to piling at least some of the brush at the tree line at the
> corner to the south east of the REBB. Some brush could also be moved to the
> east tree line of the south field. I think those who want to do this should
> submit to Darrick a plan and a list of volunteers that will move the brush.
> It will need to be moved soon because the burning will likely be done this
> month. Keep in mind there is an easement along the tree line east of the
> REBB that we MUST keep open for Oerke to farm the land down by the river.
> He also has an easement along the tree line to the south of the REBB that
> must be kept open.
>
> *Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE DROID*
>
>
> "Matthew Valdivia valdivia_matthew@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com>
> wrote:
>
>
>
> *"We have considered this in the past and it was decided that there is
> plenty of cover for the forest critters in the surrounding timber. Having
> additional piles could/may encourage critters we don't want like skunks.
> Having rabbits around the buildings also increases their predators. Our
> last shower house was constantly being undermined by animals trying to get
> to the bunnies living under it. Darrick"*
>
> Hi Darrick,
>
> Thanks for the thoughtful response. It's great to hear that conservation
> and wildlife are being considered in plans for the DSS.
>
> That said, something really needs to be clarified. The idea that the
> forest is enough for these particular species is a very common
> misconception, and precisely why the MDC stresses this point in
> communications with land owners. These are not "forest critters", they are
> animals that need "edge cover" or "buffer zone" habitat. There is no
> shortage of soft and hard wood timber in this state - there's plenty of
> primary, secondary and old growth forest here. And there is no shortage of
> grass and pasture. What is missing, to the detriment of several species,
> including prairie chickens, bob-white quail and cotton tail rabbits is
> native grass and legume prairie habitat and edge/buffer habitat. The
> prairie dependent species are largely just screwed as a result of
> development, commercial, residential and agricultural alike, and have been
> for over 100 years. However, through the late 1970's - early 1980's the
> edge/buffer dependent species were hanging on and remained relatively
> abundant because most farmers were maintaining buffers between their row
> crops and pasture and their timbered drainage's and forests. They also
> often allowed buffers off of their fence lines and allowed them to go
> relatively feral, doing occasional controlled burns which, if timed
> correctly, were also helpful to the edge-dependent wildlife. This has
> changed in the last 20+ years though as pressures have increased on farmers
> to eek every last bit of yield out of their tillable and pastured acreage.
> So now they farm in the same way the DSS is laid out - crops and or sod
> right up to the tree lines and right up to the fences. As a result, rabbits
> have become the domain of the suburbs, and bob white quail in Missouri are
> now extremely rare and hanging on by a thread.
>
> Obviously this isn't my decision to make, and I'm only making a
> suggestion, not trying to impose my will. I'm simply hoping to point out
> that as amateur astronomers we claim to be scientifically
> minded/motivated/literate. As such we should be intellectually honest about
> why a decision or specific course of action is being taken. If the putative
> use of the DSS is inherently incompatible with certain wildlife
> conservation measures, then that is fine, pragmatic and perfectly
> reasonable. And the contention that outdoor bathrooms/showers as they exist
> at the DSS are inherently incompatible with edge-cover dependent species
> restoration measures is a very sound and logical contention. It's just not
> well-informed or intellectually honest to say that these species are "doing
> just fine in the surrounding forest" as a rationale, because good empirical
> science demonstrates that they are not.
>
> I'm not trying to disparage any one person, or groups of people
> personally. As a member I'm extremely proud of the DSS and what the club
> has done with it with very limited resources. I applaud and appreciate the
> excellent work and improvements to the DSS over the years. It is a jewel in
> the crown of our members and I look forward to seeing it continue to evolve
> and improve in the years to come!
>
> Kind regards,
> *Matthew ( 玛虬宿 ) Valdivia, Principal ( 主任 )*
> *BRANDS de LUXE, l.l.c. ( 品牌 的 豪华 )*
> Manufacturers Representatives ( 厂家销售代表事务所 )
> Cellular (816)273-3665
> matthew@...
>
>
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> them together to make as many knee-high to thigh-high brush piles as you
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> needed edge cover for cotton tails and, more importantly, bob whites.
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I have been to this one before and will be there again this year.

John Fitzgerald



On Monday, January 12, 2015 8:20 AM, "Joseph Wright jos.wright@yahoo.com [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
 


  
We've been asked to participate in this event again.  Information is below.  
Let us know if you plan to help.  
 
No special training or equipment required.  This is fun for all level of astronomers.  
 
Thanks,
 
Joe
 
 
Corinth Elementary School
Thursday, March 5
6:00-7:30 PM   
Display in the library and Telescope set up on the sidewalk 
Janice Norton
8301 Mission Rd.
Prairie Village, KS 66206
(913) 993-2900
 
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Corinth+Elementary+School/@38.9780313,-94.6298083,380m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0xb67e201904dad403
_______________________________________________________________________________ 

Joseph S. Wright 

Cell Phone:  (913) 208-0924 

Operations Manager, Warkoczewski Observatory-UMKC 

Vice-President, Astronomical Society of Kansas City 
Solar System Ambassador, NASA/JPL Volunteer Program 
Girl Scouts of NE Kansas-NW Missouri  Aerospace/Astronomy/Weather S.T.E.M. Specialist

Joe, I will be there to help.

John Fitzgerald



On Monday, January 12, 2015 9:24 AM, "Joseph Wright jos.wright@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
 


  
You got it.
 
Teacher Resource Day
February 7, 2015
9am to 12 noon
UMKC Student Union
 
This is an adult event and about 300 or more teachers from a wide area of KS/MO attend.  This is more about getting the word out about the ASKC, Powell Observatory and Warkoczewski Public Observatory.  We and out fliers and show Stellarium.  We may also do a few demos on scale of the Solar System or Planispheres.  Various members have helped over the past decade.  
 
The ASKC table is one of the most visited tables and I sweet talked the lady some years ago and we get the prime spot.  The fist table at the door.  Everyone enters through this door.  I do setup a C8 and PST combo on the balcony during the event.
 
A few helpers would be nice and Jalapenos' is nice for lunch.
 
I think this is the last request that came to me directly.  And yes, I do have a preferred menu theme.
 
Thanks,
 
Joe
 
_______________________________________________________________________________ 

Joseph S. Wright 

Cell Phone:  (913) 208-0924 

Operations Manager, Warkoczewski Observatory-UMKC 

Vice-President, Astronomical Society of Kansas City 
Solar System Ambassador, NASA/JPL Volunteer Program 
Girl Scouts of NE Kansas-NW Missouri  Aerospace/Astronomy/Weather S.T.E.M. Specialist

Darrick, I can check tonight. I don't have counter-weights, presume you are referring to the button head screws that surround/secure the rear cell to the tube?

Jason

Sent from my mobile

> On Jan 12, 2015, at 15:35, "earthdude123@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
> 
> Does anyone have an lx200 that could please tell me what the size of the screws are that hold the counter weight bar in place? We have the camera and new weights but the old screws were removed and never replaced.
> Thanks, Darrick
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Anyone care to commit to this night? I won't put it on the calendar just
yet.

Sent via Gmail from David Young

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: WILKES, SHARON M <SHARON.WILKES@...>
Date: Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 9:29 PM
Subject: John Fiske Science and Health Night
To: "youngmdavid@gmail.com" <youngmdavid@...>


 *It's that time of year again!  This is Sharon Wilkes, teacher at John
Fiske Elementary here in KCK.  We will be holding our annual Health and
Science Night on Thursday, April 9th from 6:00-7:30 and we’d like to know
if you would attend.  This is a fantastic evening for our students and
their families and you are always a great addition.  You would be given
your own room here at the school and would be responsible for having
something interactive/engaging for our families.  Last year you had brought
the telescopes and our students loved them.  You had also mentioned that
you could bring your planetarium.  We were wondering if this was an option
along with the telescopes this year.  *


 *Please let me know if you would be interested and what questions you may
have.       *


 *Thank you for your consideration! *


 *Sharon Wilkes*

*John Fiske Elementary *

*913-627-4850 <913-627-4850>*

*Science and Health Night Coordinator*


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Yes, I will go. We did this school and it was in a poor neighborhood and the kids were some of the most behaved.  Better than Barstow!Then we went to a little Mexican place on the corner.  Let's do it again. Joe _______________________________________________________________________________

Joseph S. Wright

Cell Phone:  (913) 208-0924

Operations Manager, Warkoczewski Observatory-UMKC

Vice-President, Astronomical Society of Kansas City
Solar System Ambassador, NASA/JPL Volunteer Program
Girl Scouts of NE Kansas-NW Missouri  Aerospace/Astronomy/Weather S.T.E.M. Specialist
      From: "David Young youngmdavid@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com>
 To: "ASKC@yahoogroups.com" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> 
 Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2015 9:27 AM
 Subject: [ASKC] Fwd: John Fiske Science and Health Night
   
    Anyone care to commit to this night? I won't put it on the calendar just yet.
Sent via Gmail from David Young
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From: WILKES, SHARON M <SHARON.WILKES@kckps.org>
Date: Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 9:29 PM
Subject: John Fiske Science and Health Night
To: "youngmdavid@..." <youngmdavid@...>


It's that time of year again!  This is Sharon Wilkes, teacher at John Fiske Elementary here in KCK.  We will be holding our annual Health and Science Night on Thursday, April 9th from 6:00-7:30 and we’d like to know if you would attend.  This is a fantastic evening for our students and their families and you are always a great addition.  You would be given your own room here at the school and would be responsible for having something interactive/engaging for our families.  Last year you had brought the telescopes and our students loved them.  You had also mentioned that you could bring your planetarium.  We were wondering if this was an option along with the telescopes this year.  
Please let me know if you would be interested and what questions you may have.      
Thank you for your consideration!
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Correct, thanks.

John, Great.  How's your leg? I should have everything we will need.  A few more people and we are set.   Thanks, Joe _______________________________________________________________________________

Joseph S. Wright

Cell Phone:  (913) 208-0924

Operations Manager, Warkoczewski Observatory-UMKC

Vice-President, Astronomical Society of Kansas City
Solar System Ambassador, NASA/JPL Volunteer Program
Girl Scouts of NE Kansas-NW Missouri  Aerospace/Astronomy/Weather S.T.E.M. Specialist
      From: "John Fitzgerald jhonfitz@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com>
 To: "ASKC@yahoogroups.com" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> 
 Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2015 9:07 AM
 Subject: Re: [ASKC] Teacher Resouce Day
   
    Joe, I will be there to help.
John Fitzgerald 

     On Monday, January 12, 2015 9:24 AM, "Joseph Wright jos.wright@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
   

     You got it. Teacher Resource DayFebruary 7, 20159am to 12 noonUMKC Student Union This is an adult event and about 300 or more teachers from a wide area of KS/MO attend.  This is more about getting the word out about the ASKC, Powell Observatory and Warkoczewski Public Observatory.  We and out fliers and show Stellarium.  We may also do a few demos on scale of the Solar System or Planispheres.  Various members have helped over the past decade.   The ASKC table is one of the most visited tables and I sweet talked the lady some years ago and we get the prime spot.  The fist table at the door.  Everyone enters through this door.  I do setup a C8 and PST combo on the balcony during the event. A few helpers would be nice and Jalapenos' is nice for lunch. I think this is the last request that came to me directly.  And yes, I do have a preferred menu theme. Thanks, Joe _______________________________________________________________________________

Joseph S. Wright

Cell Phone:  (913) 208-0924

Operations Manager, Warkoczewski Observatory-UMKC

Vice-President, Astronomical Society of Kansas City
Solar System Ambassador, NASA/JPL Volunteer Program
Girl Scouts of NE Kansas-NW Missouri  Aerospace/Astronomy/Weather S.T.E.M. Specialist  

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Hey!  As a Barstow mom, I don't know what to think about that :)
  
 -Robynn

The last time we were at Barstow they were the most unruly, rude kids we
have ever had at a school. Many of us vowed never to go back. That's been a
few years ago so that batch is gone now. Maybe things have changed.

Sent via Gmail from David Young

On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 1:55 PM, randracsek@burnsmcd.com [ASKC] <
ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

>
>
> Hey!  As a Barstow mom, I don't know what to think about that :)
>
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>
> -Robynn
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>

Boy, I remember that evening.  You and I shut down the StarLab!  The only other time we had to do this was at Starbase at the KCK armory.  I'm trying to get back on the horse of doing more of the science nights.  I do like that many are near our mostly favorite food! Joe _______________________________________________________________________________

Joseph S. Wright

Cell Phone:  (913) 208-0924

Operations Manager, Warkoczewski Observatory-UMKC

Vice-President, Astronomical Society of Kansas City
Solar System Ambassador, NASA/JPL Volunteer Program
Girl Scouts of NE Kansas-NW Missouri  Aerospace/Astronomy/Weather S.T.E.M. Specialist
      From: "David Young youngmdavid@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com>
 To: "ASKC@yahoogroups.com" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> 
 Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2015 2:22 PM
 Subject: Re: [ASKC] Fwd: John Fiske Science and Health Night
   
    The last time we were at Barstow they were the most unruly, rude kids we have ever had at a school. Many of us vowed never to go back. That's been a few years ago so that batch is gone now. Maybe things have changed. 
Sent via Gmail from David Young


On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 1:55 PM, randracsek@... [ASKC] <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

     Hey!  As a Barstow mom, I don't know what to think about that :) -Robynn
   

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I have forgot the date for john nowlin school.  can any one help me ?

All off site events and Powell Observatory events are posted on the
Calendar at ASKC-2.org   user name is   member  password is askc

I see Tuesday January 27 for the John Nowlin School.


Sent via Gmail from David Young

On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 3:14 PM, rrschoenberger@... [ASKC] <
ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

>
>
> I have forgot the date for john nowlin school.  can any one help me ?
>
>  
>

That was some years ago and some parents actually do parenting!  I have a strong feeling Evan would be walloped if he acted like those kids back then.  From what I have witnessed about his personality, his nick name would be Clark Kent....a Gentleman. Joe _______________________________________________________________________________

Joseph S. Wright

Cell Phone:  (913) 208-0924

Operations Manager, Warkoczewski Observatory-UMKC

Vice-President, Astronomical Society of Kansas City
Solar System Ambassador, NASA/JPL Volunteer Program
Girl Scouts of NE Kansas-NW Missouri  Aerospace/Astronomy/Weather S.T.E.M. Specialist
      From: "randracsek@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com>
 To: ASKC@yahoogroups.com 
 Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2015 1:55 PM
 Subject: Re: [ASKC] Fwd: John Fiske Science and Health Night
   
    Hey!  As a Barstow mom, I don't know what to think about that :) -Robynn
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I am going down to the DSS this weekend and try to get some images of comet Lovejoy, but need a little advice.  I am assuming that a lot of people autoguide on the comet itself, is that correct?  I don't have (or want) and autoguider, and was planning on using a 180mm Nikkor lens at ISO 1600 and 30 second exposures at f2.8.  Of course I would be tracking on my normal Celestron AVX mount.  
 

 This lens really does well at f2.8.  Anyway, is 30 seconds about as long as a person can go at 180mm on an APS-C sensor and not see the comet get blurry from movement?  Should I try a different technique?
 

 Gene Williams

Advice? Yes! Be sure to observe it visually through the scope! 

Try different magnifications. Try various filters that you may have. Visually look at the coma to see how intense the central part is. Check the edges of the coma. The leading edge of the coma will be sharp and defined. The tail may not be visible, but the edges of the coma will appear smeared out in the tails direction. 

Be sure to see any color there might be. Are there any stars shining through the coma? What magnitude are they? Does the coma make them appear fainter than they really are? Take note at its location among the background stars and then look at it again in about an hour and see how much movement there is. Is the coma constant across its surface or are there any ripples or waves seen?

Comets are wondrous things and no two are alike. since 2003, I've observed 142 different comets. Many are faint, but all are beautiful. I'm hooked!

-scott



Sent from inside the TARDIS

<div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: "genogeno1@aol.com [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> </div><div>Date:01/13/2015  18:02  (GMT-06:00) </div><div>To: ASKC@yahoogroups.com </div><div>Subject: [ASKC] Imaging Thoughts on Comet Lovejoy </div><div>
</div>I am going down to the DSS this weekend and try to get some images of comet Lovejoy, but need a little advice.  I am assuming that a lot of people autoguide on the comet itself, is that correct?  I don't have (or want) and autoguider, and was planning on using a 180mm Nikkor lens at ISO 1600 and 30 second exposures at f2.8.  Of course I would be tracking on my normal Celestron AVX mount.  



This lens really does well at f2.8.  Anyway, is 30 seconds about as long as a person can go at 180mm on an APS-C sensor and not see the comet get blurry from movement?  Should I try a different technique?



Gene Williams

Hey Darrick,

On my 8" LX200, I measured the factory screw at the bottom rear of the tube, which secures the rear cell to the tube. The stock screw is an 8x32, button-head w/ 3/32 hex, 11/32 in length.

HTH,  Jason.

-----Original Message-----
From: ASKC@yahoogroups.com [mailto:ASKC@yahoogroups.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2015 12:56 PM
To: ASKC@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [ASKC] Re: lx 200 screws

Correct, thanks.

<<snip>>

Wish I could again, but have to work. Sorry. Grant
 

---In ASKC@yahoogroups.com, <jos.wright@...> wrote :

 John,
  
 Great.  How's your leg?
  
 I should have everything we will need.  A few more people and we are set.  
  
 Thanks,
  
 Joe
  
 _______________________________________________________________________________ 
 
Joseph S. Wright 
 
Cell Phone:  (913) 208-0924(913) 208-0924 
 
Operations Manager, Warkoczewski Observatory-UMKC 
 
Vice-President, Astronomical Society of Kansas City 
Solar System Ambassador, NASA/JPL Volunteer Program 
Girl Scouts of NE Kansas-NW Missouri  Aerospace/Astronomy/Weather S.T.E.M. Specialist


 From: "John Fitzgerald jhonfitz@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com>
 To: "ASKC@yahoogroups.com" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> 
 Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2015 9:07 AM
 Subject: Re: [ASKC] Teacher Resouce Day
 
 
   
 Joe, I will be there to help.
 

 John Fitzgerald
 


 On Monday, January 12, 2015 9:24 AM, "Joseph Wright jos.wright@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
 
 

   You got it.
  
 Teacher Resource Day
 February 7, 2015
 9am to 12 noon
 UMKC Student Union
  
 This is an adult event and about 300 or more teachers from a wide area of KS/MO attend.  This is more about getting the word out about the ASKC, Powell Observatory and Warkoczewski Public Observatory.  We and out fliers and show Stellarium.  We may also do a few demos on scale of the Solar System or Planispheres.  Various members have helped over the past decade.  
  
 The ASKC table is one of the most visited tables and I sweet talked the lady some years ago and we get the prime spot.  The fist table at the door.  Everyone enters through this door.  I do setup a C8 and PST combo on the balcony during the event.
  
 A few helpers would be nice and Jalapenos' is nice for lunch.
  
 I think this is the last request that came to me directly.  And yes, I do have a preferred menu theme.
  
 Thanks,
  
 Joe
 
  
 _______________________________________________________________________________ 
 
Joseph S. Wright 
 
Cell Phone:  (913) 208-0924(913) 208-0924 
 
Operations Manager, Warkoczewski Observatory-UMKC 
 
Vice-President, Astronomical Society of Kansas City 
Solar System Ambassador, NASA/JPL Volunteer Program 
Girl Scouts of NE Kansas-NW Missouri  Aerospace/Astronomy/Weather S.T.E.M. Specialist



 













 


 

​Here is a *free* educational opportunity for you fellow sky watchers. The
session takes about 1 - 2 hours max. and you don't have to register ahead
of time. Just show up and learn the difference between a wall cloud and a
SLC.  You'll get the latest information on the science of thunderstorms and
see some cool tornado videos, too.  Could even save your life some day.​

http://www.crh.noaa.gov/eax/?n=outreach-schedule

​Grant Miller
Warrensburg​

Alan Lehman is heading up the John Nowlin Elementary School Science Night.  Please contact Alan at alehman@... if you are interested in helping or for more information.  The school is located in Blue Springs, MO so if you live up that way, here's your chance to help!

 

Rick Henderson

 

From: ASKC@yahoogroups.com [mailto:ASKC@yahoogroups.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2015 4:02 PM
To: ASKC@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [ASKC] john knowline school

 

  

All off site events and Powell Observatory events are posted on the Calendar at ASKC-2.org   user name is   member  password is askc

 

I see Tuesday January 27 for the John Nowlin School.

 




Sent via Gmail from David Young

 

On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 3:14 PM, rrschoenberger@yahoo.com [ASKC] <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

  

I have forgot the date for john nowlin school.  can any one help me ?

 

I had trouble with my auto guider the other night, so I resorted to 20 second unguided images using my Hyperstar setup at f/2 and was pleased with the results. So, if you can track okay for 30 seconds, you will probably be okay. 

Take as many images as you can. 

Keith Rawlings

> On Jan 13, 2015, at 6:02 PM, genogeno1@... [ASKC] <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
> 
> I am going down to the DSS this weekend and try to get some images of comet Lovejoy, but need a little advice.  I am assuming that a lot of people autoguide on the comet itself, is that correct?  I don't have (or want) and autoguider, and was planning on using a 180mm Nikkor lens at ISO 1600 and 30 second exposures at f2.8.  Of course I would be tracking on my normal Celestron AVX mount.  
> 
> 
> 
> This lens really does well at f2.8.  Anyway, is 30 seconds about as long as a person can go at 180mm on an APS-C sensor and not see the comet get blurry from movement?  Should I try a different technique?
> 
> 
> 
> Gene Williams
> 
> 

Scott, I will look at it through the scope as well.  I'll take the 10" dob down.  From what I have already seen, it should have even more contrast down at the DSS.  Definitely looking forward to it. 

 Are you going down this weekend?  I still owe you a pack of batteries!
 

 Gene Williams

Once I compiled the files to be added to the CD that each attendee will 
receive, I will upload them to the Yahoo File area so those volunteering 
cad get acquainted with the material/activities.

I'll have demo supply for our use only during the event to show guest 
the concept of the learning activity.

Joe

-- 
Joseph S. Wright
Cell Phone:  (913) 208-0924
Operations Manager, Warkoczewski Observatory-UMKC
Vice-President, Astronomical Society of Kansas City
Solar System Ambassador, NASA/JPL Volunteer Program
Girl Scouts of NE Kansas-NW Missouri  Aerospace/Astronomy/Weather S.T.E.M. Specialist

I'm 97.436% there. Barring meteor strike or betelgeuse going supernova of course,

Not going to make it this weekend. Gonna try for maybe next weekend. Moonset isnt too late. Depends on if we have a comet night at Powell also.


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</div>Scott, I will look at it through the scope as well.  I'll take the 10" dob down.  From what I have already seen, it should have even more contrast down at the DSS.  Definitely looking forward to it.


Are you going down this weekend?  I still owe you a pack of batteries!

Gene Williams

Thanks Keith.  I'll give it a try. 

 Gene Williams

If either happens, you know it will be cloudy, don't you?  It's standard 
procedure for this area to have clouds when something spectacular 
happens.  I guess I will wait for the thud or burn to a crisp!

Joe

david.lane07@... [ASKC] wrote:
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> I'm 97.436% there. Barring meteor strike or betelgeuse going supernova 
> of course,
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> 

-- 
Joseph S. Wright
Cell Phone:  (913) 208-0924
Operations Manager, Warkoczewski Observatory-UMKC
Vice-President, Astronomical Society of Kansas City
Solar System Ambassador, NASA/JPL Volunteer Program
Girl Scouts of NE Kansas-NW Missouri  Aerospace/Astronomy/Weather S.T.E.M. Specialist

I have a stack of those spectrascope kits if you think I should bring them.


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On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 9:19 PM, Joseph Wright jos.wright@... [ASKC] <
ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

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>
> Once I compiled the files to be added to the CD that each attendee will
> receive, I will upload them to the Yahoo File area so those volunteering
> cad get acquainted with the material/activities.
>
> I'll have demo supply for our use only during the event to show guest
> the concept of the learning activity.
>
> Joe
>
> --
> Joseph S. Wright
> Cell Phone: (913) 208-0924
> Operations Manager, Warkoczewski Observatory-UMKC
> Vice-President, Astronomical Society of Kansas City
> Solar System Ambassador, NASA/JPL Volunteer Program
> Girl Scouts of NE Kansas-NW Missouri Aerospace/Astronomy/Weather S.T.E.M.
> Specialist
>
>  
>

Hi Dave,
My apologies for the delay in my response. I'm presently in a battle with some kind of chest-bug that has me feeling like a train wreck with a 101F fever. I'm supposed to be out of state on sales calls next week, so I'm hoping this clears quickly, but as of this moment I'm grounded.
I have reached out to the Missouri Department of Conservation and am trying to see if I can get a free on-site consult. They will be able to give sound, science-based and site-specific recommendations on a whole bevy of land/resource use and management concerns, including the number and placement of brush-piles. Kind regards,Matthew (玛虬宿) Valdivia, Principal (主任)BRANDS de LUXE, l.l.c. (品牌 的 豪华)
Manufacturers Representatives (厂家销售代表事务所)
Cellular (816)273-3665
matthew@...

I'll create a map of where and where not to place brush piles and send it to you.

Send me your e-mail address.

-Scott


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<div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: "Matthew Valdivia valdivia_matthew@yahoo.com [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> </div><div>Date:01/14/2015  11:38  (GMT-06:00) </div><div>To: ASKC@yahoogroups.com </div><div>Subject: Re: [ASKC] DSS tree trimming/felling </div><div>
</div>Hi Dave,

My apologies for the delay in my response. I'm presently in a battle with some kind of chest-bug that has me feeling like a train wreck with a 101F fever. I'm supposed to be out of state on sales calls next week, so I'm hoping this clears quickly, but as of this moment I'm grounded.

I have reached out to the Missouri Department of Conservation and am trying to see if I can get a free on-site consult. They will be able to give sound, science-based and site-specific recommendations on a whole bevy of land/resource use and management concerns, including the number and placement of brush-piles.
 
Kind regards,
Matthew (玛虬宿) Valdivia, Principal (主任)
BRANDS de LUXE, l.l.c. (品牌 的 豪华)
Manufacturers Representatives (厂家销售代表事务所)
Cellular (816)273-3665
matthew@brandsdeluxe.org

Hi Scott, 

That would be awesome and hugely helpful! Having a go/no-go marked map handy will really help in my meeting with the Department of Conservation's Private Land Conservationist and/or their Wildlife Management Biologist.

You can email it to me on here (yahoo): valdivia_matthew@...
Or preferably at my firm's email: matthew@...

 There was talk about a member night at Powell on the night of Jan 23 to see the Triple Transit of Jupiter.  But I don't see this on the askc calendar at http://www.askc-2.org/
  
 Is this night happening or not?  Evan was excited about the idea.
  
 Thanks.
  
 Robynn Andracsek
  

I think it will be discussed at the Board Meeting monday night. I havent heard of anything official yet. It would be a good comet night as well.


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<div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: "randracsek@burnsmcd.com [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> </div><div>Date:01/14/2015  12:47  (GMT-06:00) </div><div>To: ASKC@yahoogroups.com </div><div>Subject: [ASKC] Jan 23, Member night at Powell?? </div><div>
</div> There was talk about a member night at Powell on the night of Jan 23 to see the Triple Transit of Jupiter.  But I don't see this on the askc calendar at http://www.askc-2.org/

 

Is this night happening or not?  Evan was excited about the idea.

 

Thanks.

 

Robynn Andracsek

 

I have forwarded your note to Darrick Gray, the current DSS coordinator.

Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE DROID

"Matthew Valdivia valdivia_matthew@yahoo.com [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

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>
>Hi Dave,
>
>
>My apologies for the delay in my response. I'm presently in a battle with some kind of chest-bug that has me feeling like a train wreck with a 101F fever. I'm supposed to be out of state on sales calls next week, so I'm hoping this clears quickly, but as of this moment I'm grounded.
>
>
>I have reached out to the Missouri Department of Conservation and am trying to see if I can get a free on-site consult. They will be able to give sound, science-based and site-specific recommendations on a whole bevy of land/resource use and management concerns, including the number and placement of brush-piles.
>
> 
>
>Kind regards,
>
>Matthew (玛虬宿) Valdivia, Principal (主任)
>
>BRANDS de LUXE, l.l.c. (品牌 的 豪华)
>Manufacturers Representatives (厂家销售代表事务所)
>Cellular (816)273-3665
>
>matthew@brandsdeluxe.org
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I have posted a picture of Comet Lovejoy I took the other night out at Hillsdale Lake. I thought I would share the details for those of you wanting to take your own pictures.
 First of all, dark skies are essential for capturing details of the tail. I attempted taking pictures from my backyard in Overland Park but it was difficult to pull details of the tail out of the light polluted skies. This picture was taken at the site ASKC site used at Hillsdale Lake.
 Other details:
 - Canon T2i modified for astrophotography, although I think an unmodified would work well too.
 - Orion ED80mm APO telescope
 - On iOptron Smart EQ mount, not polar aligned.
 - Unguided images
 - ISO3200, 60 second images, 25 total images
 - Stacked with ImagePlus: star aligned, then comet aligned
 - The resulting star aligned and comet aligned images were combined in Photoshop with a number of steps.
 

 My picture has a number of problems if examined closely so I want to try again later this week. It was so cold that my focuser on the APO kept sticking and although I thought I had good focus, it should have been better. The iOptron drive also performed poorly. It may have been the cold again or some other issue. It kept losing signal and had to be restarted about 15 times over a 5 hour period. Fortunately it worked okay for the first 25 images I captured. It just didn't work long enough on subsequent attempts.
 

 Doug Spalding
 

 Link to picture:  http://tinyurl.com/lxdrk5g http://tinyurl.com/lxdrk5g
 

 

 

 

  
 

 

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Very nice, Doug!

Keith Rawlings

> On Jan 14, 2015, at 2:14 PM, boilerhawk@... [ASKC] <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
> 
> I have posted a picture of Comet Lovejoy I took the other night out at Hillsdale Lake. I thought I would share the details for those of you wanting to take your own pictures.
> 
> First of all, dark skies are essential for capturing details of the tail. I attempted taking pictures from my backyard in Overland Park but it was difficult to pull details of the tail out of the light polluted skies. This picture was taken at the site ASKC site used at Hillsdale Lake.
> 
> Other details:
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> - Canon T2i modified for astrophotography, although I think an unmodified would work well too.
> 
> - Orion ED80mm APO telescope
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> - On iOptron Smart EQ mount, not polar aligned.
> 
> - Unguided images
> 
> - ISO3200, 60 second images, 25 total images
> 
> - Stacked with ImagePlus: star aligned, then comet aligned
> 
> - The resulting star aligned and comet aligned images were combined in Photoshop with a number of steps.
> 
> 
> 
> My picture has a number of problems if examined closely so I want to try again later this week. It was so cold that my focuser on the APO kept sticking and although I thought I had good focus, it should have been better. The iOptron drive also performed poorly. It may have been the cold again or some other issue. It kept losing signal and had to be restarted about 15 times over a 5 hour period. Fortunately it worked okay for the first 25 images I captured. It just didn't work long enough on subsequent attempts.
> 
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> Doug Spalding
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> Link to picture:  http://tinyurl.com/lxdrk5g
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>  
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> This is the unofficial list of the ASKC
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> This is the unofficial list of the ASKC
> This is the unofficial Yahoo group of the Astronomical Society of Kansas City.
> View on tinyurl.com
> Preview by Yahoo
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> 
> 

a very nice picture of lovejoy

I just spoke with our illustrious Observatory Director, Steve King, and yes we are on for Friday, January 23rd at Powell, but it is a multi-purpose evening.

 

Steve and I will open the observatory by 7:00 PM.  We will have key holder trainees running the telescope as part of their practice.

 

The evening is open to any and all ASKC members.  

 

The observatory will also be open to the public, although we will be asking the public for donations.

 

One of the primary targets of the evening will be Comet Lovejoy which will be very high in the western sky on that night. The three-day old moon will set about 9:38 PM so shouldn't present too much of a problem.

 

While we hope to see the transits, please keep in mind the following schedule.  All times are from Astronomy magazine.

 

Callisto transit start:  9:11 PM

Io transit start:  10:35 PM

Europa transit start:  12:27 AM

 

So the triple transit starts about 12:27 AM and ends when Io's shadow leaves about 12:52 AM.

 

I can't guarantee that we will still have operators at that time, but we will see.

 

Rick Henderson

 

 

From: ASKC@yahoogroups.com [mailto:ASKC@yahoogroups.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2015 12:47 PM
To: ASKC@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [ASKC] Jan 23, Member night at Powell??

 

  

 There was talk about a member night at Powell on the night of Jan 23 to see the Triple Transit of Jupiter.  But I don't see this on the askc calendar at http://www.askc-2.org/

 

Is this night happening or not?  Evan was excited about the idea.

 

Thanks.

 

Robynn Andracsek

 

Doug,

 

A very nice shot, especially in light of the technical difficulties.

 

Thanks for sharing.

 

Rick Henderson

 

From: ASKC@yahoogroups.com [mailto:ASKC@yahoogroups.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2015 2:14 PM
To: ASKC@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [ASKC] Comet Lovejoy Picture

 

  

I have posted a picture of Comet Lovejoy I took the other night out at Hillsdale Lake. I thought I would share the details for those of you wanting to take your own pictures.

First of all, dark skies are essential for capturing details of the tail. I attempted taking pictures from my backyard in Overland Park but it was difficult to pull details of the tail out of the light polluted skies. This picture was taken at the site ASKC site used at Hillsdale Lake.

Other details:

- Canon T2i modified for astrophotography, although I think an unmodified would work well too.

- Orion ED80mm APO telescope

- On iOptron Smart EQ mount, not polar aligned.

- Unguided images

- ISO3200, 60 second images, 25 total images

- Stacked with ImagePlus: star aligned, then comet aligned

- The resulting star aligned and comet aligned images were combined in Photoshop with a number of steps.

 

My picture has a number of problems if examined closely so I want to try again later this week. It was so cold that my focuser on the APO kept sticking and although I thought I had good focus, it should have been better. The iOptron drive also performed poorly. It may have been the cold again or some other issue. It kept losing signal and had to be restarted about 15 times over a 5 hour period. Fortunately it worked okay for the first 25 images I captured. It just didn't work long enough on subsequent attempts.

 

Doug Spalding

 

Link to picture:  http://tinyurl.com/lxdrk5g

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is the unofficial list of the ASKC <http://tinyurl.com/lxdrk5g> 

	
	
 <http://tinyurl.com/lxdrk5g> image

	 <http://tinyurl.com/lxdrk5g> This is the unofficial list of the ASKC 

This is the unofficial Yahoo group of the Astronomical Society of Kansas City.

	


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Preview by Yahoo 

	
						

 

Very nIce Doug!  It never ceases to amaze me what can be done with these DSLRs and fast scopes in the hands of an expert. 

Or a more detailed schedule.... note there ate shadows AND moons transiting...


21:12  First shadow appears on Jupiter's face
22:34  Second shadow appears on Jupiter's face
22:53  Io starts transit across Jupiter
23:50  the second shadow, moving faster catches up and merges with the first shadow
00:15  Callisto starts transit across Jupiter
00:18  Io covers Callisto's shadow
00:27  Third shadow appears on Jupiter's face
00:53  First shadow moves off Jupiter
01:06  Europa starts transit across Jupiter
01:14  Io ends transit
02:02  Second shadow moves off Jupiter
03:23  Third shadow moves off Jupiter
04:02  Callisto ends transit
05:07  Europa ends transit
 
So:
- there will be 3 shadows on Jupiter for 26 minutes (00:27-00:53)
- and there will be 3 moons transiting for 8 minutes (01:06-01:14)


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<div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: "'Rick Henderson' rhenderson1@kc.rr.com [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> </div><div>Date:01/14/2015  14:41  (GMT-06:00) </div><div>To: ASKC@yahoogroups.com </div><div>Subject: RE: [ASKC] Jan 23, Member night at Powell?? </div><div>
</div>I just spoke with our illustrious Observatory Director, Steve King, and yes we are on for Friday, January 23rd at Powell, but it is a multi-purpose evening.

 

Steve and I will open the observatory by 7:00 PM.  We will have key holder trainees running the telescope as part of their practice.

 

The evening is open to any and all ASKC members. 

 

The observatory will also be open to the public, although we will be asking the public for donations.

 

One of the primary targets of the evening will be Comet Lovejoy which will be very high in the western sky on that night. The three-day old moon will set about 9:38 PM so shouldn't present too much of a problem.

 

While we hope to see the transits, please keep in mind the following schedule.  All times are from Astronomy magazine.

 

Callisto transit start:  9:11 PM

Io transit start:  10:35 PM

Europa transit start:  12:27 AM

 

So the triple transit starts about 12:27 AM and ends when Io's shadow leaves about 12:52 AM.

 

I can't guarantee that we will still have operators at that time, but we will see.

 

Rick Henderson

 

 

From: ASKC@yahoogroups.com [mailto:ASKC@yahoogroups.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2015 12:47 PM
To: ASKC@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [ASKC] Jan 23, Member night at Powell??

 

 

 There was talk about a member night at Powell on the night of Jan 23 to see the Triple Transit of Jupiter.  But I don't see this on the askc calendar at http://www.askc-2.org/

 

Is this night happening or not?  Evan was excited about the idea.

 

Thanks.

 

Robynn Andracsek

 

I am available and will bring the StarLab. Just a little help with the kids and someone to spell me for a drink occasionally would be appreciated.


You have been warned.


David Neuenschwander



-----Original Message-----
From: David Young youngmdavid@... [ASKC] <ASKC@yahoogroups.com>
To: ASKC <ASKC@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wed, Jan 7, 2015 7:51 pm
Subject: Re: [ASKC] Science Night - Trailwood


 
  
    
                  

Per the original note about the January 22 science night


Trailwood School Science Night
5101 W 95th St
Overland Park, KS 66207
5:30-7:30




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On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 4:17 PM, richard schoenberger rrschoenberger@... [ASKC] <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

 
 
  
    
                  


what time  ?
  
 
 
 
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 To: "ASKC@yahoogroups.com" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> 
 Sent: Wednesday, January 7, 2015 3:13 PM
 Subject: Re: [ASKC] Science Night - Trailwood
  
 


 
  
    
                  

Yup, that's our night. I included the address to avoid confusion but forgot to put the date in for those that don't use the calendar. my bad



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On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 1:55 PM, Joseph Wright jos.wright@yahoo.com [ASKC] <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

 
 
  
    
                  

The Trailwood school calendar has "Family Fun Science Night on Jan. 22nd.
 
Don't get this school confused with Trailwoods in KCMO.
 
 
Just and FYI.
 
 
Joe

 

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Cell Phone:  (913) 208-0924

Operations Manager, Warkoczewski Observatory-UMKC

Vice-President, Astronomical Society of Kansas City
Solar System Ambassador, NASA/JPL Volunteer Program
Girl Scouts of NE Kansas-NW Missouri  Aerospace/Astronomy/Weather S.T.E.M. Specialist


    
             

  



    
             





 
 
  

    

             

  




    
             

  

Very nice image Doug in spite of all the problems. The grease in focusers and gears tend to freeze in those cold temperatures, especially the sticky stuff that manufactures put on them. I have replaced that sticky stuff with something called Super Lube Silicone Lubricating Grease. It's good to -40 F. You can get it at Amazon for about $7 and I think Radio Shack. Tom J Martinez
http://tomjmartinez.blogspot.com/ 

     On Wednesday, January 14, 2015 2:52 PM, "genogeno1@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
   

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Also available for this. Have StarLab, will travel.


David Neuenschwander



-----Original Message-----
From: 'Rick Henderson' rhenderson1@... [ASKC] <ASKC@yahoogroups.com>
To: ASKC <ASKC@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tue, Jan 13, 2015 8:24 pm
Subject: RE: [ASKC] john knowline school


 
  
    
                  

Alan Lehman is heading up the John Nowlin Elementary School Science Night.  Please contact Alan at alehman@... if you are interested in helping or for more information.  The school is located in Blue Springs, MO so if you live up that way, here's your chance to help!
 
Rick Henderson
 

From: ASKC@yahoogroups.com [mailto:ASKC@yahoogroups.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2015 4:02 PM
To: ASKC@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [ASKC] john knowline school

 
  



All off site events and Powell Observatory events are posted on the Calendar at ASKC-2.org   user name is   member  password is askc

 

I see Tuesday January 27 for the John Nowlin School.

 






Sent via Gmail from David Young


 

On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 3:14 PM, rrschoenberger@... [ASKC] <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

  


I have forgot the date for john nowlin school.  can any one help me ?



 





    
             

  

This also works nicely with my bizarre work/sleep schedule. I'm available and will bring the StarLab if you want either or both.


David Neuenschwander



-----Original Message-----
From: John Fitzgerald jhonfitz@... [ASKC] <ASKC@yahoogroups.com>
To: ASKC <ASKC@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tue, Jan 13, 2015 8:35 am
Subject: Re: [ASKC] Cornith Elem. Science Night


 
  
    
                  

I have been to this one before and will be there again this year.


John Fitzgerald

 



 
 
 
  On Monday, January 12, 2015 8:20 AM, "Joseph Wright jos.wright@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
  
  

 

 
  
    
                  
We've been asked to participate in this event again.  Information is below.  
Let us know if you plan to help.  
 
No special training or equipment required.  This is fun for all level of astronomers.  
 
Thanks,
 
Joe
 
 

Corinth Elementary School
Thursday, March 5
6:00-7:30 PM   
Display in the library and Telescope set up on the sidewalk 
Janice Norton
8301 Mission Rd.
Prairie Village, KS 66206
(913) 993-2900

 
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Corinth+Elementary+School/@38.9780313,-94.6298083,380m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0xb67e201904dad403

_______________________________________________________________________________

Joseph S. Wright

Cell Phone:  (913) 208-0924

Operations Manager, Warkoczewski Observatory-UMKC

Vice-President, Astronomical Society of Kansas City
Solar System Ambassador, NASA/JPL Volunteer Program
Girl Scouts of NE Kansas-NW Missouri  Aerospace/Astronomy/Weather S.T.E.M. Specialist

    
             





  
 
  
 

    
             

  

I added you to the list of volunteers. Any chance you could StarLab John
Fiske School April 9?

Sent via Gmail from David Young

On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 3:30 PM, David Neuenschwander david9660@...
[ASKC] <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

>
>
> This also works nicely with my bizarre work/sleep schedule. I'm available
> and will bring the StarLab if you want either or both.
>
>  David Neuenschwander
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Fitzgerald jhonfitz@... [ASKC] <ASKC@yahoogroups.com>
> To: ASKC <ASKC@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Tue, Jan 13, 2015 8:35 am
> Subject: Re: [ASKC] Cornith Elem. Science Night
>
>
>   I have been to this one before and will be there again this year.
>
>  John Fitzgerald
>
>
>    On Monday, January 12, 2015 8:20 AM, "Joseph Wright
> jos.wright@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
>
>
>
>   We've been asked to participate in this event again.  Information is
> below.
> Let us know if you plan to help.
>
> No special training or equipment required.  This is fun for all level of
> astronomers.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Joe
>
>
>  Corinth Elementary School
> Thursday, March 5
> 6:00-7:30 PM
> Display in the library and Telescope set up on the sidewalk
> Janice Norton
> 8301 Mission Rd.
> Prairie Village, KS 66206
> (913) 993-2900
>
>
> https://www.google.com/maps/place/Corinth+Elementary+School/@38.9780313,-94.6298083,380m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0xb67e201904dad403
> <https://www.google.com/maps/place/Corinth+Elementary+School/@38.9780313,-94.62980%20%2083,380m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0xb67e201904dad403>
>  _______________________________________________________________________________
>
>
> Joseph S. Wright
>
> Cell Phone:  (913) 208-0924
>
> Operations Manager, Warkoczewski Observatory-UMKC
>
> Vice-President, Astronomical Society of Kansas City
> Solar System Ambassador, NASA/JPL Volunteer Program
> Girl Scouts of NE Kansas-NW Missouri  Aerospace/Astronomy/Weather S.T.E.M.
> Specialist
>
>
>        
>

Sorry, working. ALWAYS glad to share…


David Neuenschwander



-----Original Message-----
From: David Young youngmdavid@... [ASKC] <ASKC@yahoogroups.com>
To: ASKC <ASKC@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wed, Jan 14, 2015 3:41 pm
Subject: Re: [ASKC] Cornith Elem. Science Night


 
  
    
                  

I added you to the list of volunteers. Any chance you could StarLab John Fiske School April 9?



Sent via Gmail from David Young



On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 3:30 PM, David Neuenschwander david9660@... [ASKC] <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

 
 
  
    
                  
This also works nicely with my bizarre work/sleep schedule. I'm available and will bring the StarLab if you want either or both.


David Neuenschwander




-----Original Message-----
From: John Fitzgerald jhonfitz@... [ASKC] <ASKC@yahoogroups.com>
To: ASKC <ASKC@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tue, Jan 13, 2015 8:35 am
Subject: Re: [ASKC] Cornith Elem. Science Night


 
 
  
    
                  

I have been to this one before and will be there again this year.


John Fitzgerald

 



 
 
 
  On Monday, January 12, 2015 8:20 AM, "Joseph Wright jos.wright@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
  
  

 

 
  
    
                  
We've been asked to participate in this event again.  Information is below.  
Let us know if you plan to help.  
 
No special training or equipment required.  This is fun for all level of astronomers.  
 
Thanks,
 
Joe
 
 

Corinth Elementary School
Thursday, March 5
6:00-7:30 PM   
Display in the library and Telescope set up on the sidewalk 
Janice Norton
8301 Mission Rd.
Prairie Village, KS 66206
(913) 993-2900

 
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Corinth+Elementary+School/@38.9780313,-94.6298083,380m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0xb67e201904dad403

_______________________________________________________________________________

Joseph S. Wright

Cell Phone:  (913) 208-0924

Operations Manager, Warkoczewski Observatory-UMKC

Vice-President, Astronomical Society of Kansas City
Solar System Ambassador, NASA/JPL Volunteer Program
Girl Scouts of NE Kansas-NW Missouri  Aerospace/Astronomy/Weather S.T.E.M. Specialist

    
             





  
 
  
 

    
             

  



    

             

  




    
             

  

Nice Job ! ! great detail in the tail.

Sent via Gmail from David Young

On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 2:14 PM, boilerhawk@... [ASKC] <
ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

>
>
> I have posted a picture of Comet Lovejoy I took the other night out at
> Hillsdale Lake. I thought I would share the details for those of you
> wanting to take your own pictures.
>
> First of all, dark skies are essential for capturing details of the tail.
> I attempted taking pictures from my backyard in Overland Park but it was
> difficult to pull details of the tail out of the light polluted skies. This
> picture was taken at the site ASKC site used at Hillsdale Lake.
>
> Other details:
>
> - Canon T2i modified for astrophotography, although I think an unmodified
> would work well too.
>
> - Orion ED80mm APO telescope
>
> - On iOptron Smart EQ mount, not polar aligned.
>
> - Unguided images
>
> - ISO3200, 60 second images, 25 total images
>
> - Stacked with ImagePlus: star aligned, then comet aligned
>
> - The resulting star aligned and comet aligned images were combined in
> Photoshop with a number of steps.
>
>
> My picture has a number of problems if examined closely so I want to try
> again later this week. It was so cold that my focuser on the APO kept
> sticking and although I thought I had good focus, it should have been
> better. The iOptron drive also performed poorly. It may have been the cold
> again or some other issue. It kept losing signal and had to be restarted
> about 15 times over a 5 hour period. Fortunately it worked okay for the
> first 25 images I captured. It just didn't work long enough on subsequent
> attempts.
>
>
> Doug Spalding
>
>
> Link to picture:  *http://tinyurl.com/lxdrk5g
> <http://tinyurl.com/lxdrk5g>*
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> *This is the unofficial list of the ASKC <http://tinyurl.com/lxdrk5g>*
>        [image: image] <http://tinyurl.com/lxdrk5g>
>      This is the unofficial list of the ASKC <http://tinyurl.com/lxdrk5g>
> This is the unofficial Yahoo group of the Astronomical Society of Kansas
> City.
>       View on tinyurl.com  <http://tinyurl.com/lxdrk5g>
>   Preview by Yahoo
>
>
>  
>

I just checked and Jan 23 is listed. It's listed as a comet night but if
you stay late you can observe the triple transit as well.

Sent via Gmail from David Young

On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 12:47 PM, randracsek@... [ASKC] <
ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

>
>
>  There was talk about a member night at Powell on the night of Jan 23 to
> see the Triple Transit of Jupiter.  But I don't see this on the askc
> calendar at http://www.askc-2.org/
>
>
>
> Is this night happening or not?  Evan was excited about the idea.
>
>
>
> Thanks.
>
>
>
> Robynn Andracsek
>
>
>
>  
>

I thought someone was going to blast the notice and even invite the public.
Weather permitting, I will be there.

Sent via Gmail from David Young

On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 12:47 PM, randracsek@... [ASKC] <
ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

>
>
>  There was talk about a member night at Powell on the night of Jan 23 to
> see the Triple Transit of Jupiter.  But I don't see this on the askc
> calendar at http://www.askc-2.org/
>
>
>
> Is this night happening or not?  Evan was excited about the idea.
>
>
>
> Thanks.
>
>
>
> Robynn Andracsek
>
>
>
>  
>

Thanks, Tom and everybody for your comments. 

 I'll have to look in to the lube. I guess I haven't done much imaging at 15 degrees so I hadn't had an issue before. Considering that both my APO and mount were acting up, it probably was due to the cold. In fact, near the end of my attempts at imaging the iOptron would have a RA or DEC failure virtually every time I tried to slew. That was probably due to the cold (or it could have been a power supply issue).
 

 Doug
 

 

Jerry Lodriguss captured this short video of the comet:
 

 http://www.astropix.com/C_2014_Q2_Lovejoy_20150110.HTM http://www.astropix.com/C_2014_Q2_Lovejoy_20150110.HTM

 

 Check out the lower set of streamers in the lowest left hand corner of the comet nucleus. At the point nearest the comet, the filaments of the streamers appear to be rotating in a vortex pattern.  

Thats a great shot. I'm shooting it tonight and will try tomorrow as well, Hope I get something close to that!! 

 Dave

Based on your history, I am expecting fantastic results from you. I want to do better myself. I've seen some shots where the tail is unbelievable.  

 Doug

When I re-greased the 30" at Powell, that's what I used.  It's 
silicone based, not petroleum, so the viscosity doesn't change as 
much with temperature.

Roger Gruenke


At 15:26 1/14/2015, you wrote:
>
>
>Very nice image Doug in spite of all the problems. The grease in 
>focusers and gears tend to freeze in those cold temperatures, 
>especially the sticky stuff that manufactures put on them. I have 
>replaced that sticky stuff with something called Super Lube Silicone 
>Lubricating Grease. It's good to -40 F. You can get it at Amazon for 
>about $7 and I think Radio Shack.
>
>Tom J Martinez
>http://tomjmartinez.blogspot.com/
>
>
>On Wednesday, January 14, 2015 2:52 PM, "genogeno1@... [ASKC]" 
><ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
>
>
>
>Very nIce Doug! It never ceases to amaze me what can be done with 
>these DSLRs and fast scopes in the hands of an expert.
>

Sure, why not.  We will figure something out.   Joe _______________________________________________________________________________

Joseph S. Wright

Cell Phone:  (913) 208-0924

Operations Manager, Warkoczewski Public Observatory (WPO)  
  University of Missouri-Kansas City

Vice-President, Astronomical Society of Kansas City
Solar System Ambassador, NASA/JPL Volunteer Program
Girl Scouts of NE Kansas-NW Missouri  Aerospace/Astronomy/Weather S.T.E.M. Specialist

      From: "David Young youngmdavid@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com>
 To: "ASKC@yahoogroups.com" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> 
 Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2015 10:14 PM
 Subject: Re: [ASKC] Teacher Resource Day Follow UP
   
    I have a stack of those spectrascope kits if you think I should bring them.

Sent via Gmail from David Young
On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 9:19 PM, Joseph Wright jos.wright@... [ASKC] <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

     Once I compiled the files to be added to the CD that each attendee will 
receive, I will upload them to the Yahoo File area so those volunteering 
cad get acquainted with the material/activities.

I'll have demo supply for our use only during the event to show guest 
the concept of the learning activity.

Joe

-- 
Joseph S. Wright
Cell Phone: (913) 208-0924
Operations Manager, Warkoczewski Observatory-UMKC
Vice-President, Astronomical Society of Kansas City
Solar System Ambassador, NASA/JPL Volunteer Program
Girl Scouts of NE Kansas-NW Missouri Aerospace/Astronomy/Weather S.T.E.M. Specialist

   

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Evan will attend with his sitter (a 22 year old college student).  I am so bummed that I have another volunteer commitment and can't make it.
  
 Can Evan (age 12) join the 7pm keyholder training?  I would like us both to get more knowledgable about the equipment. I would catch up on education the next time it is offered.  Or is he too young to start?
  
 Thanks.
-Robynn Andracsek

While searching for some information on an astronomer, I stumbled onto this website of atmospheric optics:http://www.atoptics.co.uk/fz67.htm It has some interesting pictures of similar objects that will be discussed at the January General Meeting of the ASKC.   There could be a quiz. Joe _______________________________________________________________________________

Joseph S. Wright

Cell Phone:  (913) 208-0924

Operations Manager, Warkoczewski Public Observatory (WPO)  
  University of Missouri-Kansas City

Vice-President, Astronomical Society of Kansas City
Solar System Ambassador, NASA/JPL Volunteer Program
Girl Scouts of NE Kansas-NW Missouri  Aerospace/Astronomy/Weather S.T.E.M. Specialist

Yes, Les Cowley's stuff is very good.  As I'm sure Jeremy will be, also.  Too bad I have to miss. Grant

did ya notice Doug Zubinel had a shot in there.

Sent via Gmail from David Young

On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 11:01 AM, Joseph Wright jos.wright@... [ASKC]
<ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

>
>
> While searching for some information on an astronomer, I stumbled onto
> this website of atmospheric optics:
> http://www.atoptics.co.uk/fz67.htm
>
> It has some interesting pictures of similar objects that will be discussed
> at the January General Meeting of the ASKC.
>
> There could be a quiz.
>
> Joe
>
> _______________________________________________________________________________
>
>
> Joseph S. Wright
>
> Cell Phone:  (913) 208-0924
>
> Operations Manager, Warkoczewski Public Observatory (WPO)
>   University of Missouri-Kansas City
>
> Vice-President, Astronomical Society of Kansas City
> Solar System Ambassador, NASA/JPL Volunteer Program
> Girl Scouts of NE Kansas-NW Missouri  Aerospace/Astronomy/Weather S.T.E.M.
> Specialist
>
>  
>

Gorgeous photo Doug. Thanks for sharing.

On 01/14/2015 04:05 PM, boilerhawk@... [ASKC] wrote:
> Thanks, Tom and everybody for your comments.
>
>
> I'll have to look in to the lube. I guess I haven't done much imaging at
> 15 degrees so I hadn't had an issue before. Considering that both my APO
> and mount were acting up, it probably was due to the cold. In fact, near
> the end of my attempts at imaging the iOptron would have a RA or DEC
> failure virtually every time I tried to slew. That was probably due to
> the cold (or it could have been a power supply issue).
>
> Doug
>

We have lit's of space still left. Jim k and I are the only ones here. Come on down and enjoy YOUR dark site. Notice the space reference?
Darrick 

We have lit's of space still left. Jim k and I are the only ones here. Come on down and enjoy YOUR dark site. Notice the space reference?
Darrick 

Well, despite the howling wind all night long at the DSS, managed to get around 45 images in all of Lovejoy, including the one I just posted.  No touchup, just WYSWYG from the camera...lol..  This was using a Nikkor 180mm ED camera lens on a Canon 1000D unmodified body at ISO 1600 and 60 sec, sidereal rate tracking on a Celestron AVX mount.  Darrick, Jim Ketchum, John Fitzgerald, Phil, and Carlos were also there, was able to borrow some great views in their scopes.  Clouds moved in around 9pm or so, but I broke the micro USB connector on the camera rendering it useless for the remainder of the night.  
 

 Gene Williams

Gene, 

 That's a very nice picture of Lovejoy. You've inspired me to try to get a wide field shot of the comet. Hopefully, I can get out in the next few days if skies cooperate.
 

 I'm sorry to hear about your usb connection. I did the same thing with a modified T2i about a year ago. Getting it repaired was a pain because no one wanted to repair a modified Canon. They were willing to repair it and restore it to original condition. I finally found a place in Texas who repaired it. With yours being unmodified you shouldn't have issues getting it repaired. I now make sure that even if I trip over the cord, it can't pull on that usb port (obviously a poor design by Canon to make it so weak)
 

 Doug Spalding
 

 
 

---In ASKC@yahoogroups.com, <genogeno1@...> wrote :

 Well, despite the howling wind all night long at the DSS, managed to get around 45 images in all of Lovejoy, including the one I just posted.  No touchup, just WYSWYG from the camera...lol..  This was using a Nikkor 180mm ED camera lens on a Canon 1000D unmodified body at ISO 1600 and 60 sec, sidereal rate tracking on a Celestron AVX mount.  Darrick, Jim Ketchum, John Fitzgerald, Phil, and Carlos were also there, was able to borrow some great views in their scopes.  Clouds moved in around 9pm or so, but I broke the micro USB connector on the camera rendering it useless for the remainder of the night.  
 

 Gene Williams

Thanks Doug.  I noticed that the views down at the DSS with binoculars and telescopes were way better than in light polluted Lee's Summit.  It was visible with the naked eye.  You could see the faint indications of the tail even in binoculars.   

 That is good to know about the repair to the micro USB port.  I will see if if can be repaired fairly cheap, otherwise, I will probably just get another camera body.  I should have known better and put a stress absorber in the cord prior to the camera connection.  Oh well...
 

 Gene Williams

What clouds? John F and I are the only ones here now. HAd a cloud bank come in earlier but now its crystal clear. Got a little breeze from the west but not cold if dressed for it. Lots of parkng still available. Won't hurt us none to turn away as you set-up.Had more company last night. gene, Jim and a young man I hadn't met, Carlos, brought his family down.
Darrick
 

not much of an update because no one has joined but we are enjoying a balmy 39. just viewed the spot on jupiter. John busted out a blue filter and BAM, there it was. beautifully clear and the wind has slacked off a lot.
Darrick

Very nice image of the comet Gene. Is this a single image with no stacking of other images? If so, that is excellent. Combining all of your good images would improve it a lot. Would you send me an higher resolution image for the ASKC archives and for the planetarium show coming up February 7th. Tom J Martinez
http://tomjmartinez.blogspot.com/ 

     On Saturday, January 17, 2015 8:04 PM, "genogeno1@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
   

     Thanks Doug.  I noticed that the views down at the DSS with binoculars and telescopes were way better than in light polluted Lee's Summit.  It was visible with the naked eye.  You could see the faint indications of the tail even in binoculars.  
That is good to know about the repair to the micro USB port.  I will see if if can be repaired fairly cheap, otherwise, I will probably just get another camera body.  I should have known better and put a stress absorber in the cord prior to the camera connection.  Oh well...
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Thanks Tom.  I hadn't planned on stacking because I was under the impression you can't stack comet images because of the comet movement.  Am I wrong on this? This is my first comet image so I'm a newbie on these matters. Unfortunately, I didn't get any dark frames either thinking that these wouldn't be stacked, but after thinking about it, I can always get a dark to subtract noise on a single frame, correct?   

 I did get a video by piecing together the 45 individual frames.  It was not very impressive because it is such a wide field and only about an hour and a half worth of movement.  Jerry Lodgriguss's video put mine to shame!  
 

 I will send you the high resolution image shortly.  What is your email address?  
 

 Gene Williams

Great pic.Bummer on the camera though. Missed a great night last night.
Darrick

Yes, you can stack comet images. There are several methods, but the simplest is to align and stack in DeepSkyStacker. If you normally stack like other astro pics you will get the comet streaked, but if you align on the comets nucleus instead of the stars, the comet will be stationary and the stars will streak. DeepSkyStacker has a method to get both the comet and that stars to be stationary. See this YouTube video to see how this works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ay4JR0QqpYkThe hardest part is knowing where to set the aligning method, so pay attention to each step.There are other methods, but they all depend on different kinds of software. Tom J Martinez
http://tomjmartinez.blogspot.com/ 

     On Sunday, January 18, 2015 11:27 AM, "earthdude123@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
   

     Great pic.Bummer on the camera though. Missed a great night last night.
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Oh yeah, Gene, my e-mail address is tomjmartinez@...
 Tom J Martinez
http://tomjmartinez.blogspot.com/ 

     On Sunday, January 18, 2015 11:56 AM, Tom Martinez <zenitrammot@...> wrote:
   

 Yes, you can stack comet images. There are several methods, but the simplest is to align and stack in DeepSkyStacker. If you normally stack like other astro pics you will get the comet streaked, but if you align on the comets nucleus instead of the stars, the comet will be stationary and the stars will streak. DeepSkyStacker has a method to get both the comet and that stars to be stationary. See this YouTube video to see how this works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ay4JR0QqpYkThe hardest part is knowing where to set the aligning method, so pay attention to each step.There are other methods, but they all depend on different kinds of software. Tom J Martinez
http://tomjmartinez.blogspot.com/ 

     On Sunday, January 18, 2015 11:27 AM, "earthdude123@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
   

     Great pic.Bummer on the camera though. Missed a great night last night.
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Thanks Darrick, sounds like the winds stopped howling and you had a great night.  

Thanks Tom, I am re-downloading Deepskystacker and Photoshop now after my computer had issues, and I will see about stacking them and doing some post-processing.  To make matters worse, my internet connection has slowed to a snails pace and the download process is taking forever.   

 I went back through the images and picked what I thought was probably the best one (not the one posted), and sent it to you.  I am assuming the "..." means yahoo.com for your email account?  
 

 Gene Williams

Gene, I didn't type "..." so Yahoo must not let me put in e-mail address. It is:tomjmartinez at gmail dot com Tom J Martinez
http://tomjmartinez.blogspot.com/ 

     On Sunday, January 18, 2015 2:39 PM, "genogeno1@...m [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
   

     Thanks Tom, I am re-downloading Deepskystacker and Photoshop now after my computer had issues, and I will see about stacking them and doing some post-processing.  To make matters worse, my internet connection has slowed to a snails pace and the download process is taking forever.  
I went back through the images and picked what I thought was probably the best one (not the one posted), and sent it to you.  I am assuming the "..." means yahoo.com for your email account?  
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Tom, 

 lol...ok, I will resend.  I was wondering what that "..." meant at the end of everyone's email when they post!  I guess Yahoo does that to thwart spammers.  
 

 Gene Williams

My attempt at shooting comet Lovejoy is on my photoblog. It was near the Pleiades so I used my zoom lens at 70mm to capture both of them together. Here is the link:
 http://tomjmartinez.blogspot.com/2015/01/comet-lovejoy-near-plieades.html http://tomjmartinez.blogspot.com/2015/01/comet-lovejoy-near-plieades.html

 

 Tom J. Martinez
 

NIce image,  Tom. I really like how you were able to get the Pleiades in the same frame and the nIce detail of the comet tail.

Gene Williams

Great picture, Tom. 
  
Jim 

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From: "zenitrammot@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> 
To: "ASKC" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> 
Sent: Sunday, January 18, 2015 4:55:33 PM 
Subject: [ASKC] Comet Lovejoy and Plieades 





My attempt at shooting comet Lovejoy is on my photoblog. It was near the Pleiades so I used my zoom lens at 70mm to capture both of them together. Here is the link: 

http://tomjmartinez.blogspot.com/2015/01/comet-lovejoy-near-plieades.html 





Tom J. Martinez 




 

Thanks Jim. Did you have a fruitful few nights at the DSS? Tom J Martinez
http://tomjmartinez.blogspot.com/ 

     On Sunday, January 18, 2015 11:26 PM, "suenjim@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
   

     Great picture, Tom.
 Jim
From: "zenitrammot@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com>
To: "ASKC" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 18, 2015 4:55:33 PM
Subject: [ASKC] Comet Lovejoy and Plieades



My attempt at shooting comet Lovejoy is on my photoblog. It was near the Pleiades so I used my zoom lens at 70mm to capture both of them together. Here is the link:http://tomjmartinez.blogspot.com/2015/01/comet-lovejoy-near-plieades.html

Tom J. Martinez



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Thursday was super. Absolutely one of the best nights I've ever seen there. Virtually no twinkling stars and very dark skies. Friday clouds rolled in after 8:00 PM and left sucker holes the remainder of the evening. 
  
Jim 

----- Original Message -----

From: "Tom Martinez zenitrammot@yahoo.com [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> 
To: "ASKC" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> 
Sent: Sunday, January 18, 2015 11:46:01 PM 
Subject: Re: [ASKC] Comet Lovejoy and Plieades 



Thanks Jim. Did you have a fruitful few nights at the DSS? 

  
Tom J Martinez 
http://tomjmartinez.blogspot.com/ 


On Sunday, January 18, 2015 11:26 PM, "suenjim@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote: 


  

Great picture, Tom. 
  
Jim 


From: "zenitrammot@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> 
To: "ASKC" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> 
Sent: Sunday, January 18, 2015 4:55:33 PM 
Subject: [ASKC] Comet Lovejoy and Plieades 



My attempt at shooting comet Lovejoy is on my photoblog. It was near the Pleiades so I used my zoom lens at 70mm to capture both of them together. Here is the link: 
http://tomjmartinez.blogspot.com/2015/01/comet-lovejoy-near-plieades.html 

Tom J. Martinez 










 

Fantastic shots by everyone. Tom's sense of the artisticis spot on as always. I threw my attempt in the photos section. 

 Dave 

Dave,  that is a really great image.   What lens did you use and what focal ratio?  

Gene Williams

Gene 

 Same as you Nikkor 180ED on a Canon 6D same ISO and 150 second images. I shot it at f4.
 

 Dave

Really, really nice David. The best one of bunch. Would you send me a high resolution image for the ASKC archives please. Tom J Martinezhttp://tomjmartinez.blogspot.com/ 

     On Monday, January 19, 2015 2:22 PM, "david.lane07@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
   

     Gene
Same as you Nikkor 180ED on a Canon 6D same ISO and 150 second images. I shot it at f4.
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Any recommendations for a set of filters for 1.25 eyepiece?

 
Jim Carothers

other than the standard 4 color set you might look for a "Skygow" light
pollution filter. A UHC can be useful out in a dark sky. I think my
favorite though is an OIII. They can do wonders on some nebula.


Sent via Gmail from David Young

On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 8:18 PM, james carothers cwhocares40@sbcglobal.net
[ASKC] <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

>
>
> Any recommendations for a set of filters for 1.25 eyepiece?
>
> Jim Carothers
>
>  
>

Jim,

Go to Orion at this URL. See if they have what you want.

http://www.telescope.com/catalog/search.cmd?form_state=searchForm&siteCode=US&keyword=planetary+filters

You didn't say whether you want filters for viewing planets or light
pollution filters.

Gary Pittman

On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 8:18 PM, james carothers cwhocares40@...
[ASKC] <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

>
>
> Any recommendations for a set of filters for 1.25 eyepiece?
>
> Jim Carothers
>
>  
>



-- 
Clear skies,

Gary Pittman

One of our usual suspects had to drop out for Thursday's school night so
John Fitzgerald will be the only Telescope guy. David Neuenschwander should
be there with the StarLab. I think Robyn and Evan will be there too but we
could certainly do with one or two more people!

Sent via Gmail from David Young

I'm sorry but Evan and I can't make it.  He has a big math test the next day.  Middle school is demanding.
  
 -Robynn Andracsek

I can be at Trailwood on Thursday with a scope, and Corinth on March 5th as well.    Pete
 

David, 

I will be there to help. With indoor scope and Moon to look at. Also whatever brochures and other stuff I can  round up. 

Dave Hudgins

Planets mostly. Would a green filter help me see Love-Joy more clearly?

 
Jim Carothers


On Monday, January 19, 2015 11:09 PM, "Gary Pittman yrag1919@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
 


  
Jim,

Go to Orion at this URL. See if they have what you want.

http://www.telescope.com/catalog/search.cmd?form_state=searchForm&siteCode=US&keyword=planetary+filters


You didn't say whether you want filters for viewing planets or light pollution filters. 

Gary Pittman


On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 8:18 PM, james carothers cwhocares40@... [ASKC] <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

 
>  
>Any recommendations for a set of filters for 1.25 eyepiece?
>
> 
>Jim Carothers


-- 

Clear skies,

Gary Pittman

David,

Where is Trailwood?

 
Jim Carothers


On Tuesday, January 20, 2015 10:10 AM, "'David Hudgins' dhudgins@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@...m> wrote:
 


  
David, 
 
I will be there to help. With indoor scope and Moon to look at. Also 
whatever brochures and other stuff I can  round up. 
 
Dave Hudgins

There is a paper in files "filters" that might be of interest.  It is a filter tutorial by an advanced Midwest observer, no longer with us.  Or GOOGLE  filter use at telescope  for several good articles.

> On Jan 20, 2015, at 11:50 AM, "james carothers cwhocares40@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> Planets mostly. Would a green filter help me see Love-Joy more clearly?
>  
> Jim Carothers
> 
> 
> On Monday, January 19, 2015 11:09 PM, "Gary Pittman yrag1919@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> Jim,
> 
> Go to Orion at this URL. See if they have what you want.
> 
> http://www.telescope.com/catalog/search.cmd?form_state=searchForm&siteCode=US&keyword=planetary+filters
> 
> You didn't say whether you want filters for viewing planets or light pollution filters. 
> 
> Gary Pittman
> 
> On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 8:18 PM, james carothers cwhocares40@... [ASKC] <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
>  
> Any recommendations for a set of filters for 1.25 eyepiece?
>  
> Jim Carothers
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Clear skies,
> 
> Gary Pittman
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 

Dave, 

 A fantastic image as always! This even exceeds what I was expecting from you. Thanks for sharing.
 

 Doug Spalding
 

---In ASKC@yahoogroups.com, <david.lane07@...> wrote :

 Fantastic shots by everyone. Tom's sense of the artisticis spot on as always. I threw my attempt in the photos section. 

 Dave 

Two more people have dropped out so now we are really starting to get short
on people.

Anyone care to join us Thursday?

Sent via Gmail from David Young

david,  I was going to come to trailwood school and bring the usual.  I really cant remember if I told you, thought I did,  anyway I will be there,  5101 w 95th ,, right ?

Our congratulations to Dave Lane and his magnificent Comet Lovejoy image just posted in Time Magazine Online.

See http://time.com/3674582/lovejoy-comet-green-space/

Dave Hudgins

Carrol Iorg and Steve Berg are the duty pair for a LARGE group of scouts on
March 21. They will likely need help with a group this large (70 or more)

If you can give them a hand that night please let us know.

Sent via Gmail from David Young

Dats da place. Now were are up to 4.

Sent via Gmail from David Young

On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 2:34 PM, rrschoenberger@... [ASKC] <
ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

>
>
> david,  I was going to come to trailwood school and bring the usual.  I
> really cant remember if I told you, thought I did,  anyway I will be
> there,  5101 w 95th ,, right ?
>  
>

My initial thought would be no. I've never tried colored filters on a
comet. When used while viewing planets the different colors make features
such as cloud belts easier to see. Maybe someone else can give you a
definitive answer to this question.

Gary

On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 11:50 AM, james carothers cwhocares40@...
[ASKC] <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

>
>
> Planets mostly. Would a green filter help me see Love-Joy more clearly?
>
> Jim Carothers
>
>
>   On Monday, January 19, 2015 11:09 PM, "Gary Pittman yrag1919@...
> [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
>
>
>
>  Jim,
>
> Go to Orion at this URL. See if they have what you want.
>
>
> http://www.telescope.com/catalog/search.cmd?form_state=searchForm&siteCode=US&keyword=planetary+filters
>
> You didn't say whether you want filters for viewing planets or light
> pollution filters.
>
> Gary Pittman
>
> On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 8:18 PM, james carothers cwhocares40@...
> [ASKC] <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
>
>
>  Any recommendations for a set of filters for 1.25 eyepiece?
>
> Jim Carothers
>
>
>
>
> --
> Clear skies,
>
> Gary Pittman
>
>
>    
>



-- 
Clear skies,

Gary Pittman

I can come and help but will be unable to bring a scope

On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 5:47 PM, David Young youngmdavid@... [ASKC] <
ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

>
>
> Dats da place. Now were are up to 4.
>
> Sent via Gmail from David Young
>
> On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 2:34 PM, rrschoenberger@yahoo.com [ASKC] <
> ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> david,  I was going to come to trailwood school and bring the usual.  I
>> really cant remember if I told you, thought I did,  anyway I will be
>> there,  5101 w 95th ,, right ?
>>
>
>  
>

Nice! David’s spectacular Comet Lovejoy image also featured on KC Star Online, along with a nice plug for ASKC!.  : ^ ).

See   http://www.kansascity.com/news/local/article7780464.html

Dave Hudgins

David,

I can make it Thursday night.

 
Jim Carothers


On Tuesday, January 20, 2015 6:59 PM, "'starman621od .' kings621@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
 


  
I can come and help but will be unable to bring a scope


On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 5:47 PM, David Young youngmdavid@...m [ASKC] <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

 
>  
>Dats da place. Now were are up to 4.
>
>
>Sent via Gmail from David Young
>
>On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 2:34 PM, rrschoenberger@... [ASKC] <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
>
> 
>>  
>>david,  I was going to come to trailwood school and bring the usual.  I really cant remember if I told you, thought I did,  anyway I will be there,  5101 w 95th ,, right ?
>

I will bring my 14" dob also.

 
Jim & Laura Carothers


On Tuesday, January 20, 2015 9:04 PM, james carothers <cwhocares40@...> wrote:
 


David,

I can make it Thursday night.
 
Jim Carothers


On Tuesday, January 20, 2015 6:59 PM, "'starman621od .' kings621@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
 


  
I can come and help but will be unable to bring a scope


On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 5:47 PM, David Young youngmdavid@... [ASKC] <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

 
>  
>Dats da place. Now were are up to 4.
>
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>Sent via Gmail from David Young
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>On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 2:34 PM, rrschoenberger@... [ASKC] <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
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> 
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>>david,  I was going to come to trailwood school and bring the usual.  I really cant remember if I told you, thought I did,  anyway I will be there,  5101 w 95th ,, right ?
>

Nice picture Dave.  I know that they are close but how did you get Love-Joy and Pleiades in the same shot?

 
Jim Carothers


On Tuesday, January 20, 2015 4:08 PM, "'David Hudgins' dhudgins@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
 


  
Our congratulations to Dave Lane and his magnificent Comet Lovejoy image 
just posted in Time Magazine Online.
 
See http://time.com/3674582/lovejoy-comet-green-space/
 
Dave Hudgins

Jim, 

Regarding filers:  The green will not help with comets. Most observers would say that no filter really helps. From my experience,  your bare eyeball is best for the blues and green coma and ion tail...and yellowish dust tail. 

For planets, a green helps a bit with Jupiter belts, and I like an orange to increase contrast when Mars is close.  But the truth is I rarely use any filters for the planets. The REAL power of filters  is for seeing emission nebula (use various including Ultra High Contrast from Lumicon for example) and OIII filters for planetary nebulae and supernova remnants like the Veil Nebula. These are the two filters I use by far the most frequently. 

My two cents anyway, heh-heh!      Cheers - Dave Hudgins

That will be great Steve. You can be out fill in guy.

Sent via Gmail from David Young

On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 6:59 PM, 'starman621od .' kings621@gmail.com [ASKC]
<ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

>
>
> I can come and help but will be unable to bring a scope
>
> On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 5:47 PM, David Young youngmdavid@... [ASKC]
> <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Dats da place. Now were are up to 4.
>>
>> Sent via Gmail from David Young
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 2:34 PM, rrschoenberger@... [ASKC] <
>> ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> david,  I was going to come to trailwood school and bring the usual.  I
>>> really cant remember if I told you, thought I did,  anyway I will be
>>> there,  5101 w 95th ,, right ?
>>>
>>
>>
>  
>

Excellent Jim. Scope in case it's clear? I can toss my ETX 125 and Ioptron
mount in the Tahoe. It's a quick set up. The Starmaster would take too long
to set up for this short event.

Sent via Gmail from David Young

On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 9:04 PM, james carothers cwhocares40@...
[ASKC] <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

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>
> David,
>
> I can make it Thursday night.
>
> Jim Carothers
>
>
>   On Tuesday, January 20, 2015 6:59 PM, "'starman621od .'
> kings621@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
>
>
>
>  I can come and help but will be unable to bring a scope
>
> On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 5:47 PM, David Young youngmdavid@... [ASKC]
> <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
>
>
>  Dats da place. Now were are up to 4.
>
> Sent via Gmail from David Young
>
> On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 2:34 PM, rrschoenberger@yahoo.com [ASKC] <
> ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
>
>
>  david,  I was going to come to trailwood school and bring the usual.  I
> really cant remember if I told you, thought I did,  anyway I will be
> there,  5101 w 95th ,, right ?
>
>
>
>
>
>    
>

I've noticed that red print or other red things become almost invisible
under red light. I wonder if the greenish comet would be diminished by a
green filter? If so maybe a red filter would help with contrast?
Hmmmm....maybe I'll test that theory Friday.

Sent via Gmail from David Young

On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 6:20 PM, Gary Pittman yrag1919@... [ASKC] <
ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

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>
> My initial thought would be no. I've never tried colored filters on a
> comet. When used while viewing planets the different colors make features
> such as cloud belts easier to see. Maybe someone else can give you a
> definitive answer to this question.
>
> Gary
>
> On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 11:50 AM, james carothers
> cwhocares40@... [ASKC] <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
>
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>> Planets mostly. Would a green filter help me see Love-Joy more clearly?
>>
>> Jim Carothers
>>
>>
>>   On Monday, January 19, 2015 11:09 PM, "Gary Pittman yrag1919@...
>> [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
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>>
>>  Jim,
>>
>> Go to Orion at this URL. See if they have what you want.
>>
>>
>> http://www.telescope.com/catalog/search.cmd?form_state=searchForm&siteCode=US&keyword=planetary+filters
>>
>> You didn't say whether you want filters for viewing planets or light
>> pollution filters.
>>
>> Gary Pittman
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 8:18 PM, james carothers
>> cwhocares40@... [ASKC] <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
>>
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>>  Any recommendations for a set of filters for 1.25 eyepiece?
>>
>> Jim Carothers
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Clear skies,
>>
>> Gary Pittman
>>
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>
>
> --
> Clear skies,
>
> Gary Pittman
>
>  
>

Thanks everyone for your input. I'm pretty sure which direction I'll go.

 
Jim Carothers


On Tuesday, January 20, 2015 9:57 PM, "David Young youngmdavid@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
 


  
I've noticed that red print or other red things become almost invisible under red light. I wonder if the greenish comet would be diminished by a green filter? If so maybe a red filter would help with contrast?  Hmmmm....maybe I'll test that theory Friday.


Sent via Gmail from David Young

On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 6:20 PM, Gary Pittman yrag1919@... [ASKC] <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

 
>  
>My initial thought would be no. I've never tried colored filters on a comet. When used while viewing planets the different colors make features such as cloud belts easier to see. Maybe someone else can give you a definitive answer to this question.
>
>
>Gary
>
>
>On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 11:50 AM, james carothers cwhocares40@... [ASKC] <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
>
> 
>>  
>>Planets mostly. Would a green filter help me see Love-Joy more clearly?
>>
>> 
>>Jim Carothers
>>
>>
>>
>>On Monday, January 19, 2015 11:09 PM, "Gary Pittman yrag1919@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
>> 
>>
>>
>>  
>>Jim,
>>
>>
>>Go to Orion at this URL. See if they have what you want.
>>
>>
>>http://www.telescope.com/catalog/search.cmd?form_state=searchForm&siteCode=US&keyword=planetary+filters
>>
>>
>>
>>You didn't say whether you want filters for viewing planets or light pollution filters. 
>>
>>
>>Gary Pittman
>>
>>
>>On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 8:18 PM, james carothers cwhocares40@... [ASKC] <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
>>
>> 
>>>  
>>>Any recommendations for a set of filters for 1.25 eyepiece?
>>>
>>> 
>>>Jim Carothers
>>
>>
>>
>>-- 
>>
>>Clear skies,
>>
>>
>>Gary Pittman
>>
>>
>
>
>
>-- 
>
>Clear skies,
>
>
>Gary Pittman

If you still need help I can do the picture thing if you would like me to. 

 Dave

Jim, 

 I used a 180mm camera lens. I looked at in the Sky X and it showed I could get both in the field of view so I tried it two nights. The previous night looks great too but had a much smaller tail.
 

 Dave

What are the hours of operation at Powell for the transit this Friday night?  I am about to send out a broadcast at work and Twitter. Thanks, Joe _______________________________________________________________________________

Joseph S. Wright

Cell Phone:  (913) 208-0924

Operations Manager, Warkoczewski Public Observatory (WPO)  
  University of Missouri-Kansas City

Vice-President, Astronomical Society of Kansas City
Solar System Ambassador, NASA/JPL Volunteer Program
Girl Scouts of NE Kansas-NW Missouri  Aerospace/Astronomy/Weather S.T.E.M. Specialist

7 pm, until the last key holder leaves
On Jan 21, 2015 9:37 AM, "Joseph Wright jos.wright@... [ASKC]" <
ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

>
>
> What are the hours of operation at Powell for the transit this Friday
> night?  I am about to send out a broadcast at work and Twitter.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Joe
>
> _______________________________________________________________________________
>
>
> Joseph S. Wright
>
> Cell Phone:  (913) 208-0924
>
> Operations Manager, Warkoczewski Public Observatory (WPO)
>   University of Missouri-Kansas City
>
> Vice-President, Astronomical Society of Kansas City
> Solar System Ambassador, NASA/JPL Volunteer Program
> Girl Scouts of NE Kansas-NW Missouri  Aerospace/Astronomy/Weather S.T.E.M.
> Specialist
>  
>

Steve: Thank you. Joe _______________________________________________________________________________

Joseph S. Wright

Cell Phone:  (913) 208-0924

Operations Manager, Warkoczewski Public Observatory (WPO)  
  University of Missouri-Kansas City

Vice-President, Astronomical Society of Kansas City
Solar System Ambassador, NASA/JPL Volunteer Program
Girl Scouts of NE Kansas-NW Missouri  Aerospace/Astronomy/Weather S.T.E.M. Specialist

      From: "'starman621od .' kings621@gmail.com [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com>
 To: ASKC@yahoogroups.com 
 Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2015 9:40 AM
 Subject: Re: [ASKC] Powell Friday Night
   
    7 pm, until the last key holder leaves 

On Jan 21, 2015 9:37 AM, "Joseph Wright jos.wright@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

     What are the hours of operation at Powell for the transit this Friday night?  I am about to send out a broadcast at work and Twitter. Thanks, Joe _______________________________________________________________________________

Joseph S. Wright

Cell Phone:  (913) 208-0924

Operations Manager, Warkoczewski Public Observatory (WPO)  
  University of Missouri-Kansas City

Vice-President, Astronomical Society of Kansas City
Solar System Ambassador, NASA/JPL Volunteer Program
Girl Scouts of NE Kansas-NW Missouri  Aerospace/Astronomy/Weather S.T.E.M. Specialist
   
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You "picture thing" is always a hit. I've seen kids discard a lot of the
stuff they pickup at these events but I've never seen one of your
spectacular photos laying around. If I ever do I'll snag it for myself:-)

Sent via Gmail from David Young

On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 12:18 AM, david.lane07@gmail.com [ASKC] <
ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

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>
> If you still need help I can do the picture thing if you would like me to.
>
> Dave
>
>  
>

So if a key holder in training wants to practice what time should he show up?

Thanks,
TIm
---- "'starman621od .' kings621@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote: 
> 7 pm, until the last key holder leaves
> On Jan 21, 2015 9:37 AM, "Joseph Wright jos.wright@... [ASKC]" <
> ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> > What are the hours of operation at Powell for the transit this Friday
> > night?  I am about to send out a broadcast at work and Twitter.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Joe
> >
> > _______________________________________________________________________________
> >
> >
> > Joseph S. Wright
> >
> > Cell Phone:  (913) 208-0924
> >
> > Operations Manager, Warkoczewski Public Observatory (WPO)
> >   University of Missouri-Kansas City
> >
> > Vice-President, Astronomical Society of Kansas City
> > Solar System Ambassador, NASA/JPL Volunteer Program
> > Girl Scouts of NE Kansas-NW Missouri  Aerospace/Astronomy/Weather S.T.E.M.
> > Specialist
> >  
> >

Trainees can show up around 6:30
On Jan 21, 2015 10:26 AM, "tnavickas@....com [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com>
wrote:

>
>
> So if a key holder in training wants to practice what time should he show
> up?
>
> Thanks,
> TIm
> ---- "'starman621od .' kings621@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com>
> wrote:
> > 7 pm, until the last key holder leaves
> > On Jan 21, 2015 9:37 AM, "Joseph Wright jos.wright@... [ASKC]" <
> > ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > What are the hours of operation at Powell for the transit this Friday
> > > night? I am about to send out a broadcast at work and Twitter.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Joe
> > >
> > > __________________________________________________________
> > >
> > >
> > > Joseph S. Wright
> > >
> > > Cell Phone: (913) 208-0924
> > >
> > > Operations Manager, Warkoczewski Public Observatory (WPO)
> > > University of Missouri-Kansas City
> > >
> > > Vice-President, Astronomical Society of Kansas City
> > > Solar System Ambassador, NASA/JPL Volunteer Program
> > > Girl Scouts of NE Kansas-NW Missouri Aerospace/Astronomy/Weather
> S.T.E.M.
> > > Specialist
> > >
> > >
>
>  
>

If thwy want to see the shadow transit....at least till 1am.


Sent from inside the TARDIS

<div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: "Joseph Wright jos.wright@yahoo.com [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> </div><div>Date:01/21/2015  09:37  (GMT-06:00) </div><div>To: ASKC On Yahoogroups <askc@yahoogroups.com> </div><div>Subject: [ASKC] Powell Friday Night </div><div>
</div>What are the hours of operation at Powell for the transit this Friday night?  I am about to send out a broadcast at work and Twitter.
 
Thanks,
 
Joe
 
_______________________________________________________________________________ 

Joseph S. Wright 

Cell Phone:  (913) 208-0924 

Operations Manager, Warkoczewski Public Observatory (WPO)   
  University of Missouri-Kansas City 

Vice-President, Astronomical Society of Kansas City 
Solar System Ambassador, NASA/JPL Volunteer Program 
Girl Scouts of NE Kansas-NW Missouri  Aerospace/Astronomy/Weather S.T.E.M. Specialist 

Thanks Dave on both of your posts :) 

 Dave

There's a little blurb and most of David's photo on page A4 of the
Wednesday KC Star.

Sent via Gmail from David Young

david  I will be at powell to help on 3-21-15.  will bring my 8 inch to keep them buzy out side  r. schoenberger
      From: "David Young youngmdavid@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com>
 To: "ASKC@yahoogroups.com" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> 
 Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2015 5:45 PM
 Subject: [ASKC] large group
   
    Carrol Iorg and Steve Berg are the duty pair for a LARGE group of scouts on March 21. They will likely need help with a group this large (70 or more)
If you can give them a hand that night please let us know.
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7:00 to at least 10:00, possibly longer depending on weather, volunteers and visitors.

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<div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: "Joseph Wright jos.wright@yahoo.com [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> </div><div>Date:01/21/2015  9:37 AM  (GMT-06:00) </div><div>To: ASKC On Yahoogroups <askc@yahoogroups.com> </div><div>Subject: [ASKC] Powell Friday Night </div><div>
</div>What are the hours of operation at Powell for the transit this Friday night?  I am about to send out a broadcast at work and Twitter.
 
Thanks,
 
Joe
 
_______________________________________________________________________________ 

Joseph S. Wright 

Cell Phone:  (913) 208-0924 

Operations Manager, Warkoczewski Public Observatory (WPO)   
  University of Missouri-Kansas City 

Vice-President, Astronomical Society of Kansas City 
Solar System Ambassador, NASA/JPL Volunteer Program 
Girl Scouts of NE Kansas-NW Missouri  Aerospace/Astronomy/Weather S.T.E.M. Specialist 

All,

I don't mean to be picky, but considering the fact that the webcam is
available on sites like Weather Underground's Wunder Cams site, it might be
worth fixing a small spelling mistake I spotted :) I don't know if it's an
overlay that should be fixed or if it's hard coded into the camera, but
instead of "Astronomical Society of Kansas City" it says "[...] Scociety
[...]" and I figured it's worth a mention.

Some awesome footage being caught by that thing though - very nicely done!

Thanks!

/Mick Ohrberg

-- 
A: Because it's counterintuitive to the way we read.
Q: Why is top-posting bad?

Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments.
See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html

HAHAHA!   Didn't catch that one.  I'll fix it this weekend.  Unfortunately, the editor for the text is quite cumbersome. May take a couple tries. 

Thanks for letting me know. 

Jason

Sent from my mobile

> On Jan 21, 2015, at 13:22, "Mick Ohrberg mick.ohrberg@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@...m> wrote:
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> 
> 
> All,
> 
> I don't mean to be picky, but considering the fact that the webcam is available on sites like Weather Underground's Wunder Cams site, it might be worth fixing a small spelling mistake I spotted :) I don't know if it's an overlay that should be fixed or if it's hard coded into the camera, but instead of "Astronomical Society of Kansas City" it says "[...] Scociety [...]" and I figured it's worth a mention. 
> 
> Some awesome footage being caught by that thing though - very nicely done!
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> /Mick Ohrberg
> 
> -- 
> A: Because it's counterintuitive to the way we read.
> Q: Why is top-posting bad?
> 
> Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments.
> See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
> 
> 
> 

More accolades  - club member Dave Lane’s magnificent comet shot is featured in Astronomy Magazine online as Picture of the Day.

See http://www.astronomy.com/photos/picture-of-day

Dave Hudgins

Time for me to subscribe to Sky and Tel. Is the $29.95 rate they are offering me the same I can get through the ASKC? 

Thanks.

Mike Myer
Humboldt, KS 

I think your rate is better. I think the ASKC rate is $32.95 for 12 months.

Sent via Gmail from David Young

On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 7:23 PM, mdmyer@cox.net [ASKC] <ASKC@yahoogroups.com
> wrote:

>
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> Time for me to subscribe to Sky and Tel. Is the $29.95 rate they are
> offering me the same I can get through the ASKC?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Mike Myer
> Humboldt, KS
>  
>

It's time again to send stuff to the newsletter editor.

Deadline is January 28.

Thanks!!
Marcia

Taking pictures of Comet Lovejoy is a lot of fun. It is such a beautiful comet and the tail is awesome. I have also been amazed at how the tail has changed from night to night. I have posted two new pictures. The one of the comet passing Pleiades is not as good as David Lane's but it was taken at Hillsdale Lake and the skies probably weren't good enough to get the best detail out of the tail. I am still very happy with it.
 The close up view was taken at the DSS with my Hyperstar system (FL 560mm). I've tried to provide TinyUrl links to the pictures below but I'm not sure they will work. The pictures are in the Doug S. folder in Photos Album.
 

 Doug Spalding
 

 

 

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Your squiggly-tailed Comet Lovejoy next to the Pleiades is excellent!  Thank you for sharing!

 

Rick Henderson

 

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Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2015 10:44 PM
To: ASKC@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [ASKC] More pictures of Comet Lovejoy

 

  

Taking pictures of Comet Lovejoy is a lot of fun. It is such a beautiful comet and the tail is awesome. I have also been amazed at how the tail has changed from night to night. I have posted two new pictures. The one of the comet passing Pleiades is not as good as David Lane's but it was taken at Hillsdale Lake and the skies probably weren't good enough to get the best detail out of the tail. I am still very happy with it.

The close up view was taken at the DSS with my Hyperstar system (FL 560mm). I've tried to provide TinyUrl links to the pictures below but I'm not sure they will work. The pictures are in the Doug S. folder in Photos Album.

 

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Rick,  Thank you!  You probably have noticed I have been doing some of my imaging at Hillsdale Lake. I have been using the area where the club set up before. I love going there. It takes me half the time to get there versus DSS and the skies are pretty dark. I look forward to when we have our observatory there. BTW, the last 3 times I have been there, I've only seen 1 car pass by each time (over a 4 or 5 hour period). During winter months, the campgrounds are empty as you might expect.
 Doug S.
 

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 Doug,
  
 Your squiggly-tailed Comet Lovejoy next to the Pleiades is excellent!  Thank you for sharing!
  
 Rick Henderson
  
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Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2015 10:44 PM
To: ASKC@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [ASKC] More pictures of Comet Lovejoy


  
  
 Taking pictures of Comet Lovejoy is a lot of fun. It is such a beautiful comet and the tail is awesome. I have also been amazed at how the tail has changed from night to night. I have posted two new pictures. The one of the comet passing Pleiades is not as good as David Lane's but it was taken at Hillsdale Lake and the skies probably weren't good enough to get the best detail out of the tail. I am still very happy with it.
 The close up view was taken at the DSS with my Hyperstar system (FL 560mm). I've tried to provide TinyUrl links to the pictures below but I'm not sure they will work. The pictures are in the Doug S. folder in Photos Album.
  
 Doug Spalding
  
  
  
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Doug,
Those are OUTSTANDING!!!

Keith Rawlings

> On Jan 21, 2015, at 10:44 PM, boilerhawk@... [ASKC] <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
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> Taking pictures of Comet Lovejoy is a lot of fun. It is such a beautiful comet and the tail is awesome. I have also been amazed at how the tail has changed from night to night. I have posted two new pictures. The one of the comet passing Pleiades is not as good as David Lane's but it was taken at Hillsdale Lake and the skies probably weren't good enough to get the best detail out of the tail. I am still very happy with it.
> 
> The close up view was taken at the DSS with my Hyperstar system (FL 560mm). I've tried to provide TinyUrl links to the pictures below but I'm not sure they will work. The pictures are in the Doug S. folder in Photos Album.
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Thank you, Keith! 

 Doug S.
 

---In ASKC@yahoogroups.com, <kfrastro@...> wrote :

 Doug,
 Those are OUTSTANDING!!!

Keith Rawlings
 
 On Jan 21, 2015, at 10:44 PM, boilerhawk@... mailto:boilerhawk@... [ASKC] <ASKC@yahoogroups.com mailto:ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:


   
 Taking pictures of Comet Lovejoy is a lot of fun. It is such a beautiful comet and the tail is awesome. I have also been amazed at how the tail has changed from night to night. I have posted two new pictures. The one of the comet passing Pleiades is not as good as David Lane's but it was taken at Hillsdale Lake and the skies probably weren't good enough to get the best detail out of the tail. I am still very happy with it.
 The close up view was taken at the DSS with my Hyperstar system (FL 560mm). I've tried to provide TinyUrl links to the pictures below but I'm not sure they will work. The pictures are in the Doug S. folder in Photos Album.
 

 Doug Spalding
 

 

 

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Really nIce,  Doug!  Were you using a C11 with the hyperstar?  Was that a full frame camera? 

Gene Williams

Gene, 

 Yes, in both cases I was using a modified Canon T2i camera. The close up view was on a CGE 1100 (C11) with Hyperstar. The wide field shot was using the stock Canon 75 mm-300 mm  telephoto lens at 75 mm. In that case the camera was mounted on an iOptron Pro Smart EQ mount with guiding.
 

 Doug
 

---In ASKC@yahoogroups.com, <genogeno1@...> wrote :

 Really nIce, Doug! Were you using a C11 with the hyperstar? Was that a full frame camera? 
 
 Gene Williams

Doug, these are some really nice shots. The curved and squiggly tail is amazing. Everyone gets such different images with totally individual representations. Please send my some high resolution copies of all your images and technical details.
Any one who has taken images of this comet, please send copies to me. Along with technical info, such as camera, lens, f/ratio, exposure, telescope, mount, processing techniques, etc. I'd like to put these into a file for the ASKC archives as well as a file on the ASKC Yahoogroups so that when another comet comes along anyone wanting to take pics of it will have someplace to start. Tom J Martinez
http://tomjmartinez.blogspot.com/ 

     On Wednesday, January 21, 2015 10:44 PM, "boilerhawk@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
   

     Taking pictures of Comet Lovejoy is a lot of fun. It is such a beautiful comet and the tail is awesome. I have also been amazed at how the tail has changed from night to night. I have posted two new pictures. The one of the comet passing Pleiades is not as good as David Lane's but it was taken at Hillsdale Lake and the skies probably weren't good enough to get the best detail out of the tail. I am still very happy with it.The close up view was taken at the DSS with my Hyperstar system (FL 560mm). I've tried to provide TinyUrl links to the pictures below but I'm not sure they will work. The pictures are in the Doug S. folder in Photos Album.
Doug Spalding


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I have two words for your close up of Comet Lovejoy.....Oh! Wow!

Marcia

On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 10:44 PM, boilerhawk@... [ASKC] <
ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

>
>
> Taking pictures of Comet Lovejoy is a lot of fun. It is such a beautiful
> comet and the tail is awesome. I have also been amazed at how the tail has
> changed from night to night. I have posted two new pictures. The one of the
> comet passing Pleiades is not as good as David Lane's but it was taken at
> Hillsdale Lake and the skies probably weren't good enough to get the best
> detail out of the tail. I am still very happy with it.
>
> The close up view was taken at the DSS with my Hyperstar system (FL
> 560mm). I've tried to provide TinyUrl links to the pictures below but I'm
> not sure they will work. The pictures are in the Doug S. folder in Photos
> Album.
>
>
> Doug Spalding
>
>
>
>
> *This is the unofficial list of the ASKC <http://tinyurl.com/kkhefrl>*
>        [image: image] <http://tinyurl.com/kkhefrl>
>      This is the unofficial list of the ASKC <http://tinyurl.com/kkhefrl>
> This is the unofficial Yahoo group of the Astronomical Society of Kansas
> City.
>       View on tinyurl.com  <http://tinyurl.com/kkhefrl>
>   Preview by Yahoo
>
>
> *This is the unofficial list of the ASKC <http://tinyurl.com/lngxjda>*
>        [image: image] <http://tinyurl.com/lngxjda>
>      This is the unofficial list of the ASKC <http://tinyurl.com/lngxjda>
> This is the unofficial Yahoo group of the Astronomical Society of Kansas
> City.
>       View on tinyurl.com  <http://tinyurl.com/lngxjda>
>   Preview by Yahoo
>
>
>  
>

Glad you are able to see the comet and some stars Doug. Great shot you've taken!
 

 Stuart

David, Thank you for the notice to the members!
 

 Dave Lane.
 Wow!

The topic for the club meeting Saturday is about atmospheric phenomenon by Jeremy Baker. I'm looking forward to that. One source of really good information on this topic, as has been mentioned here before, is the website Atmospheric Optics by Les Cowley. Back in 2003, at an ASKC star party near Marion, KS, I was getting set up for the night, the sky was clear, and someone noticed that there was some sky-wide crepuscular rays coming from where the sun was setting behind some clouds and extending clear across to the other horizon (West to East). I took a picture using a fish-eye lens. Les has it on his website here:
 http://www.atoptics.co.uk/atoptics/skywide.htm http://www.atoptics.co.uk/atoptics/skywide.htm

 

 I could not believe it, but one year later, 2004, almost to the same day, at the same place, it happened again! In this picture Kathy Machin is pointing at the rays. Notice that in the photo the rays looked curved. Of course, the lens caused a lot of this curvature, but visually, the rays also looked curved. They are not curved, but are straight, and are only a matter of perspective, similar to seeing parallel railroad tracks converge to a point in the distance:
 http://www.atoptics.co.uk/fz190.htm http://www.atoptics.co.uk/fz190.htm

 

 Tom J. Martinez
 http://tomjmartinez.blogspot.com http://tomjmartinez.blogspot.com
 

 

What time do we need to be a Trailwood tonight?

Very very nice Doug. I really like the little squiggly guy! Excellent work! 

 Dave

The event runs from 5:30 to 7:30 so you will want to get there about a half hour or so before that.

John Fitzgerald

Thanks, Tom. I will send you high resolution pictures with the details. 

 Doug S.
 

---In ASKC@yahoogroups.com, <zenitrammot@...> wrote :

 Doug, these are some really nice shots. The curved and squiggly tail is amazing. Everyone gets such different images with totally individual representations. Please send my some high resolution copies of all your images and technical details.
 

 Any one who has taken images of this comet, please send copies to me. Along with technical info, such as camera, lens, f/ratio, exposure, telescope, mount, processing techniques, etc. I'd like to put these into a file for the ASKC archives as well as a file on the ASKC Yahoogroups so that when another comet comes along anyone wanting to take pics of it will have someplace to start.
 
  
 Tom J Martinez 
http://tomjmartinez.blogspot.com/

 


 On Wednesday, January 21, 2015 10:44 PM, "boilerhawk@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
 
 

   
 Taking pictures of Comet Lovejoy is a lot of fun. It is such a beautiful comet and the tail is awesome. I have also been amazed at how the tail has changed from night to night. I have posted two new pictures. The one of the comet passing Pleiades is not as good as David Lane's but it was taken at Hillsdale Lake and the skies probably weren't good enough to get the best detail out of the tail. I am still very happy with it.
 The close up view was taken at the DSS with my Hyperstar system (FL 560mm). I've tried to provide TinyUrl links to the pictures below but I'm not sure they will work. The pictures are in the Doug S. folder in Photos Album.
 

 Doug Spalding
 

 

 

 This is the unofficial list of the ASKC http://tinyurl.com/kkhefrl

 
 
 http://tinyurl.com/kkhefrl
 
 This is the unofficial list of the ASKC http://tinyurl.com/kkhefrl This is the unofficial Yahoo group of the Astronomical Society of Kansas City.


 
 View on tinyurl.com http://tinyurl.com/kkhefrl
 Preview by Yahoo 
 

 

 This is the unofficial list of the ASKC http://tinyurl.com/lngxjda

 
 
 http://tinyurl.com/lngxjda
 
 This is the unofficial list of the ASKC http://tinyurl.com/lngxjda This is the unofficial Yahoo group of the Astronomical Society of Kansas City.


 
 View on tinyurl.com http://tinyurl.com/lngxjda
 Preview by Yahoo 
 

 


 


 

Thank you, Dave!!  It's a fun target to photograph. 

 Doug S.
 

---In ASKC@yahoogroups.com, <david.lane07@...> wrote :

 Very very nice Doug. I really like the little squiggly guy! Excellent work! 

 Dave

A great many THANKS to the following people for sharing astronomy last night:David Young
James Carothers
Steve King
Richard Schoenberger
David Hudgins
Pete Jafferis
Dave and Lady Lane (can't recall her name this early in the morning)
David Neuenschwander, his son and friend
Rita Wright
John Fitzgeral,entertained about 300 students and family members.   I hope I didn't miss a name. Thanks again. Joe _______________________________________________________________________________

Joseph S. Wright

Cell Phone:  (913) 208-0924

Operations Manager, Warkoczewski Public Observatory (WPO)  
  University of Missouri-Kansas City

Vice-President, Astronomical Society of Kansas City
Solar System Ambassador, NASA/JPL Volunteer Program
Girl Scouts of NE Kansas-NW Missouri  Aerospace/Astronomy/Weather S.T.E.M. Specialist

STELLARIUM:  If you haven't downloaded or tried it yet you should.   It does a great job of showing the transit tonight and the 2017 TSE (Total Solar Eclipse). Joe _______________________________________________________________________________

Joseph S. Wright

Cell Phone:  (913) 208-0924

Operations Manager, Warkoczewski Public Observatory (WPO)  
  University of Missouri-Kansas City

Vice-President, Astronomical Society of Kansas City
Solar System Ambassador, NASA/JPL Volunteer Program
Girl Scouts of NE Kansas-NW Missouri  Aerospace/Astronomy/Weather S.T.E.M. Specialist

You're welcome. Christopher and AJ were great help. You saw how proficient they are at packing the StarLab. This event was fun, it hasn't always been that way here. We were extremely well staffed.


David Hudgins, I love the eyepieces!


See you Tuesday,


David Neuenschwander



-----Original Message-----
From: Joseph Wright jos.wright@... [ASKC] <ASKC@yahoogroups.com>
To: ASKC On Yahoogroups <askc@yahoogroups.com>; Amy Polen <apolen@....com>
Sent: Fri, Jan 23, 2015 8:07 am
Subject: [ASKC] Trailwood Elem. Science Night


 
  
    
                  

A great many THANKS to the following people for sharing astronomy last night:
David Young
James Carothers
Steve King
Richard Schoenberger
David Hudgins
Pete Jafferis
Dave and Lady Lane (can't recall her name this early in the morning)
David Neuenschwander, his son and friend
Rita Wright
John Fitzgeral,
entertained about 300 students and family members.  
 
I hope I didn't miss a name.
 
Thanks again.
 
Joe

 

_______________________________________________________________________________

Joseph S. Wright

Cell Phone:  (913) 208-0924

Operations Manager, Warkoczewski Public Observatory (WPO)  
  University of Missouri-Kansas City

Vice-President, Astronomical Society of Kansas City
Solar System Ambassador, NASA/JPL Volunteer Program
Girl Scouts of NE Kansas-NW Missouri  Aerospace/Astronomy/Weather S.T.E.M. Specialist



    
             

  

Given the weather forecast, that may be the only way we get to see it.

Rick Henderson


Sent on the new Sprint Network from my Samsung Galaxy S®4.

<div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: "Joseph Wright jos.wright@yahoo.com [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> </div><div>Date:01/23/2015  8:27 AM  (GMT-06:00) </div><div>To: ASKC On Yahoogroups <askc@yahoogroups.com> </div><div>Subject: [ASKC] Stellarium </div><div>
</div>STELLARIUM:  If you haven't downloaded or tried it yet you should.   It does a great job of showing the transit tonight and the 2017 TSE (Total Solar Eclipse).
 
Joe
 
_______________________________________________________________________________ 

Joseph S. Wright 

Cell Phone:  (913) 208-0924 

Operations Manager, Warkoczewski Public Observatory (WPO)   
  University of Missouri-Kansas City 

Vice-President, Astronomical Society of Kansas City 
Solar System Ambassador, NASA/JPL Volunteer Program 
Girl Scouts of NE Kansas-NW Missouri  Aerospace/Astronomy/Weather S.T.E.M. Specialist 

Looks like it will only be clear after midnight! 
Is anyone still planning to go?

-Mason Klenklen

Steve King and I will open Powell regardless of the weather at 7:00. How long we stay will probably depend on the sky conditions.

Rick Henderson


Sent on the new Sprint Network from my Samsung Galaxy S®4.

<div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: "George Klenklen gmklen@yahoo.com [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> </div><div>Date:01/23/2015  9:13 AM  (GMT-06:00) </div><div>To: ASKC@yahoogroups.com </div><div>Subject: Re: RE: [ASKC] Powell Friday Night </div><div>
</div>Looks like it will only be clear after midnight! 
Is anyone still planning to go?

-Mason Klenklen

From:"rhenderson1 rhenderson1@kc.rr.com [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com>
Date:Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 12:26 PM
Subject:RE: [ASKC] Powell Friday Night

 
7:00 to at least 10:00, possibly longer depending on weather, volunteers and visitors.

Rick Henderson


Sent on the new Sprint Network from my Samsung Galaxy S®4.


-------- Original message --------
From: "Joseph Wright jos.wright@yahoo.com [ASKC]"
Date:01/21/2015 9:37 AM (GMT-06:00)
To: ASKC On Yahoogroups
Subject: [ASKC] Powell Friday Night

 
What are the hours of operation at Powell for the transit this Friday night?  I am about to send out a broadcast at work and Twitter.
 
Thanks,
 
Joe
 
_______________________________________________________________________________ 

Joseph S. Wright 

Cell Phone:  (913) 208-0924 

Operations Manager, Warkoczewski Public Observatory (WPO)   
  University of Missouri-Kansas City 

Vice-President, Astronomical Society of Kansas City 
Solar System Ambassador, NASA/JPL Volunteer Program 
Girl Scouts of NE Kansas-NW Missouri  Aerospace/Astronomy/Weather S.T.E.M. Specialist 

I plan to be there. It looks like only a few strings of clouds. Shouldn't be totally overcast. Never can tell.


Sent from inside the TARDIS

<div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: "rhenderson1 rhenderson1@kc.rr.com [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> </div><div>Date:01/23/2015  09:31  (GMT-06:00) </div><div>To: Yahoo Groups ASKC <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> </div><div>Subject: Re: RE: [ASKC] Powell Friday Night </div><div>
</div>Steve King and I will open Powell regardless of the weather at 7:00. How long we stay will probably depend on the sky conditions.

Rick Henderson


Sent on the new Sprint Network from my Samsung Galaxy S®4.


-------- Original message --------
From: "George Klenklen gmklen@yahoo.com [ASKC]"
Date:01/23/2015 9:13 AM (GMT-06:00)
To: ASKC@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: RE: [ASKC] Powell Friday Night

 
Looks like it will only be clear after midnight! 
Is anyone still planning to go?

-Mason Klenklen

From:"rhenderson1 rhenderson1@kc.rr.com [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com>
Date:Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 12:26 PM
Subject:RE: [ASKC] Powell Friday Night

 
7:00 to at least 10:00, possibly longer depending on weather, volunteers and visitors.

Rick Henderson


Sent on the new Sprint Network from my Samsung Galaxy S®4.


-------- Original message --------
From: "Joseph Wright jos.wright@yahoo.com [ASKC]"
Date:01/21/2015 9:37 AM (GMT-06:00)
To: ASKC On Yahoogroups
Subject: [ASKC] Powell Friday Night

 
What are the hours of operation at Powell for the transit this Friday night?  I am about to send out a broadcast at work and Twitter.
 
Thanks,
 
Joe
 
_______________________________________________________________________________ 

Joseph S. Wright 

Cell Phone:  (913) 208-0924 

Operations Manager, Warkoczewski Public Observatory (WPO)   
  University of Missouri-Kansas City 

Vice-President, Astronomical Society of Kansas City 
Solar System Ambassador, NASA/JPL Volunteer Program 
Girl Scouts of NE Kansas-NW Missouri  Aerospace/Astronomy/Weather S.T.E.M. Specialist 

Several members asked questions about your Feb 19 event but no one actually
said they would do it. Sorry.

Sent via Gmail from David Young

On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 9:34 AM, Kammi <kammifromkansas@...>
wrote:

> We have moved on in our planning for this event as I never hear back.
> However, there is a great interest in this topic, so if ever there is a
> volunteer, we'd be happy to schedule a future event.
>
> Thanks,
> Kammi
>
> On Jan 2, 2015, at 1:11 AM, David Young <youngmdavid@...> wrote:
>
> I will ask for a volunteer. Where is your event?
>
>
> Sent via Gmail from David Young
>
> On Thu, Jan 1, 2015 at 11:02 PM, Kammi Bean <
> kammifromkansas@...> wrote:
>
>>  We are planning our Blue & Gold Banquet for February and I'm interested
>> to know what you charge to send a guest speaker out to our location. Our
>> theme is Indoor Camping. But, since our Cub Scout aged boys don't camp with
>> the pack, we rarely have occasion to talk about the sky and the
>> constellations. I'd be open to indoor program suggestions on that topic for
>> boys age 8-10 and their families. And, probably no longer than 35 minutes.
>>
>> Our event is Thursday, 2/19 with a start time about 6:30pm.
>>
>> Thank you,
>>
>> Kammi Bean
>> Cubmaster
>> Pack 3648
>>
>
>

A great night! I was getting nervous when a few folks had conflicts and
dropped out. We wound up with plenty of people. Of course the biggest hit
was the StarLab. David Neuenschwander did countless programs for 2 solid
hours and emerged sane at the end of the evening. David Lane's photos were
also a tremendous hit. We had kid looking through scopes in the gym and
admiring photos and displays as well as Stellarium demos. A very good night.

Sent via Gmail from David Young

On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 8:07 AM, Joseph Wright jos.wright@... [ASKC] <
ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

>
>
> A great many THANKS to the following people for sharing astronomy last
> night:
> David Young
> James Carothers
> Steve King
> Richard Schoenberger
> David Hudgins
> Pete Jafferis
> Dave and Lady Lane (can't recall her name this early in the morning)
> David Neuenschwander, his son and friend
> Rita Wright
> John Fitzgeral,
> entertained about 300 students and family members.
>
> I hope I didn't miss a name.
>
> Thanks again.
>
> Joe
>
> _______________________________________________________________________________
>
>
> Joseph S. Wright
>
> Cell Phone:  (913) 208-0924
>
> Operations Manager, Warkoczewski Public Observatory (WPO)
>   University of Missouri-Kansas City
>
> Vice-President, Astronomical Society of Kansas City
> Solar System Ambassador, NASA/JPL Volunteer Program
> Girl Scouts of NE Kansas-NW Missouri  Aerospace/Astronomy/Weather S.T.E.M.
> Specialist
>
>  
>

Marcia hasn't used this computer in years since she upgraded to a newer
computer to do work at home.

Anyone have a use for this?

PowerBook G4 with 17" screen
Mac OS X
Processor: 1.5 GHz Power PC G4
Memory: 512 MB DDR SDRAM
CPU speed: 1.5 GHz
L2 Cache: 512 KB
Bus speed: 167 MHz
Boot POM Version: 4.8.4f1
Sent via Gmail from David Young

I'm interested, how much would you like for it?



> On Jan 23, 2015, at 10:27 AM, David Young youngmdavid@... [ASKC] <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
> 
> Marcia hasn't used this computer in years since she upgraded to a newer computer to do work at home.
> 
> Anyone have a use for this?
> 
> PowerBook G4 with 17" screen
> Mac OS X
> Processor: 1.5 GHz Power PC G4
> Memory: 512 MB DDR SDRAM
> CPU speed: 1.5 GHz
> L2 Cache: 512 KB
> Bus speed: 167 MHz
> Boot POM Version: 4.8.4f1
> Sent via Gmail from David Young
> 

Make me an offer.

Sent via Gmail from David Young

On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 10:53 AM, Colby Schumacher
schumacher.colby@... [ASKC] <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

>
>
> I'm interested, how much would you like for it?
>
>
>
> On Jan 23, 2015, at 10:27 AM, David Young youngmdavid@... [ASKC] <
> ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> Marcia hasn't used this computer in years since she upgraded to a newer
> computer to do work at home.
>
> Anyone have a use for this?
>
> PowerBook G4 with 17" screen
> Mac OS X
> Processor: 1.5 GHz Power PC G4
> Memory: 512 MB DDR SDRAM
> CPU speed: 1.5 GHz
> L2 Cache: 512 KB
> Bus speed: 167 MHz
> Boot POM Version: 4.8.4f1
> Sent via Gmail from David Young
>
>   
>

I'm sure it does. Never used it. Make me an offer.

Sent via Gmail from David Young

On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 10:50 AM, Dave Stewart scidav87@... [ASKC] <
ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

>
>
> Does it have WiFi?   Price?   And location?   Lol
>
> *Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE DROID*
> On Jan 23, 2015 10:27 AM, "David Young youngmdavid@... [ASKC]" <
> ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> Marcia hasn't used this computer in years since she upgraded to a newer
> computer to do work at home.
>
> Anyone have a use for this?
>
> PowerBook G4 with 17" screen
> Mac OS X
> Processor: 1.5 GHz Power PC G4
> Memory: 512 MB DDR SDRAM
> CPU speed: 1.5 GHz
> L2 Cache: 512 KB
> Bus speed: 167 MHz
> Boot POM Version: 4.8.4f1
> Sent via Gmail from David Young
>
>   
>

I guess I missed what is transiting tonight.



> On Jan 23, 2015, at 9:31 AM, rhenderson1 rhenderson1@... [ASKC] <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> Steve King and I will open Powell regardless of the weather at 7:00. How long we stay will probably depend on the sky conditions.
> 
> Rick Henderson
> 
> 
> Sent on the new Sprint Network from my Samsung Galaxy S®4.
> 
> 
> -------- Original message --------
> From: "George Klenklen gmklen@... [ASKC]"
> Date:01/23/2015 9:13 AM (GMT-06:00)
> To: ASKC@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: RE: [ASKC] Powell Friday Night
> 
> Looks like it will only be clear after midnight! 
> Is anyone still planning to go?
> 
> -Mason Klenklen
> 
> From:"rhenderson1 rhenderson1@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com>
> Date:Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 12:26 PM
> Subject:RE: [ASKC] Powell Friday Night
> 
>  
> 7:00 to at least 10:00, possibly longer depending on weather, volunteers and visitors.
> 
> Rick Henderson
> 
> 
> Sent on the new Sprint Network from my Samsung Galaxy S®4.
> 
> 
> -------- Original message --------
> From: "Joseph Wright jos.wright@...m [ASKC]"
> Date:01/21/2015 9:37 AM (GMT-06:00)
> To: ASKC On Yahoogroups
> Subject: [ASKC] Powell Friday Night
> 
>  
> What are the hours of operation at Powell for the transit this Friday night?  I am about to send out a broadcast at work and Twitter.
>  
> Thanks,
>  
> Joe
>  
> _______________________________________________________________________________ 
> 
> Joseph S. Wright 
> 
> Cell Phone:  (913) 208-0924 
> 
> Operations Manager, Warkoczewski Public Observatory (WPO)   
>   University of Missouri-Kansas City 
> 
> Vice-President, Astronomical Society of Kansas City 
> Solar System Ambassador, NASA/JPL Volunteer Program 
> Girl Scouts of NE Kansas-NW Missouri  Aerospace/Astronomy/Weather S.T.E.M. Specialist 
> 
> 
> 

Jason and I are working on a new all sky cam web page that includes data from the Powell weather station with the images.
Consider this a work in progress. Hopefully it will become part of a Powell weather web page which is in development.

http://www.askc.org/allsky_animation.html

If weather permits, I'll be attempting to photograph the transit from home as my rig isn't very portable.

Alan

---- "Scott s.kranz1@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote: 
> I plan to be there. It looks like only a few strings of clouds. Shouldn't be totally overcast. Never can tell.


Sent from inside the TARDIS

<div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: "rhenderson1 rhenderson1@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> </div><div>Date:01/23/2015  09:31  (GMT-06:00) </div><div>To: Yahoo Groups ASKC <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> </div><div>Subject: Re: RE: [ASKC] Powell Friday Night </div><div>
</div>Steve King and I will open Powell regardless of the weather at 7:00. How long we stay will probably depend on the sky conditions.

Rick Henderson


Sent on the new Sprint Network from my Samsung Galaxy S®4.


-------- Original message --------
From: "George Klenklen gmklen@... [ASKC]"
Date:01/23/2015 9:13 AM (GMT-06:00)
To: ASKC@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: RE: [ASKC] Powell Friday Night

 
Looks like it will only be clear after midnight! 
Is anyone still planning to go?

-Mason Klenklen

From:"rhenderson1 rhenderson1@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com>
Date:Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 12:26 PM
Subject:RE: [ASKC] Powell Friday Night

 
7:00 to at least 10:00, possibly longer depending on weather, volunteers and visitors.

Rick Henderson


Sent on the new Sprint Network from my Samsung Galaxy S®4.


-------- Original message --------
From: "Joseph Wright jos.wright@... [ASKC]"
Date:01/21/2015 9:37 AM (GMT-06:00)
To: ASKC On Yahoogroups
Subject: [ASKC] Powell Friday Night

 
What are the hours of operation at Powell for the transit this Friday night?  I am about to send out a broadcast at work and Twitter.
 
Thanks,
 
Joe
 
_______________________________________________________________________________ 

Joseph S. Wright 

Cell Phone:  (913) 208-0924 

Operations Manager, Warkoczewski Public Observatory (WPO)   
  University of Missouri-Kansas City 

Vice-President, Astronomical Society of Kansas City 
Solar System Ambassador, NASA/JPL Volunteer Program 
Girl Scouts of NE Kansas-NW Missouri  Aerospace/Astronomy/Weather S.T.E.M. Specialist 

Wow! That's great. 

Keith Rawlings

> On Jan 23, 2015, at 11:27 AM, alehman@... [ASKC] <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
> 
> Jason and I are working on a new all sky cam web page that includes data from the Powell weather station with the images.
> Consider this a work in progress. Hopefully it will become part of a Powell weather web page which is in development.
> 
> http://www.askc.org/allsky_animation.html
> 
> If weather permits, I'll be attempting to photograph the transit from home as my rig isn't very portable.
> 
> Alan
> 
> ---- "Scott s.kranz1@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote: 
> > I plan to be there. It looks like only a few strings of clouds. Shouldn't be totally overcast. Never can tell.
> 
> Sent from inside the TARDIS
> 
> <div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: "rhenderson1 rhenderson1@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> </div><div>Date:01/23/2015 09:31 (GMT-06:00) </div><div>To: Yahoo Groups ASKC <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> </div><div>Subject: Re: RE: [ASKC] Powell Friday Night </div><div>
> </div>Steve King and I will open Powell regardless of the weather at 7:00. How long we stay will probably depend on the sky conditions.
> 
> Rick Henderson
> 
> Sent on the new Sprint Network from my Samsung Galaxy S®4.
> 
> -------- Original message --------
> From: "George Klenklen gmklen@... [ASKC]"
> Date:01/23/2015 9:13 AM (GMT-06:00)
> To: ASKC@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: RE: [ASKC] Powell Friday Night
> 
> Looks like it will only be clear after midnight! 
> Is anyone still planning to go?
> 
> -Mason Klenklen
> 
> From:"rhenderson1 rhenderson1@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com>
> Date:Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 12:26 PM
> Subject:RE: [ASKC] Powell Friday Night
> 
> 7:00 to at least 10:00, possibly longer depending on weather, volunteers and visitors.
> 
> Rick Henderson
> 
> Sent on the new Sprint Network from my Samsung Galaxy S®4.
> 
> -------- Original message --------
> From: "Joseph Wright jos.wright@... [ASKC]"
> Date:01/21/2015 9:37 AM (GMT-06:00)
> To: ASKC On Yahoogroups
> Subject: [ASKC] Powell Friday Night
> 
> What are the hours of operation at Powell for the transit this Friday night? I am about to send out a broadcast at work and Twitter.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Joe
> 
> __________________________________________________________
> 
> Joseph S. Wright 
> 
> Cell Phone: (913) 208-0924 
> 
> Operations Manager, Warkoczewski Public Observatory (WPO) 
> University of Missouri-Kansas City 
> 
> Vice-President, Astronomical Society of Kansas City 
> Solar System Ambassador, NASA/JPL Volunteer Program 
> Girl Scouts of NE Kansas-NW Missouri Aerospace/Astronomy/Weather S.T.E.M. Specialist 
> 
> 

This really should be a new discussion thread, but while we're here ...

Are you guys monitoring how much data is being uploaded per hour or per day from the camera and the weather station? We got about a $150 bill from Verizon the last month which, I believe, is over double our usual bill. It looks like the camera is updating every 5 minutes, but I don't know the data size of the images.

Rick Henderson


Sent on the new Sprint Network from my Samsung Galaxy S®4.

<div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: "alehman@kc.rr.com [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> </div><div>Date:01/23/2015  11:27 AM  (GMT-06:00) </div><div>To: ASKC@yahoogroups.com </div><div>Subject: Re: RE: [ASKC] Powell Friday Night </div><div>
</div>Jason and I are working on a new all sky cam web page that includes data from the Powell weather station with the images.
Consider this a work in progress. Hopefully it will become part of a Powell weather web page which is in development.

http://www.askc.org/allsky_animation.html

If weather permits, I'll be attempting to photograph the transit from home as my rig isn't very portable.

Alan

---- "Scott s.kranz1@comcast.net [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote: 
> I plan to be there. It looks like only a few strings of clouds. Shouldn't be totally overcast. Never can tell.

Sent from inside the TARDIS

<div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: "rhenderson1 rhenderson1@kc.rr.com [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> </div><div>Date:01/23/2015 09:31  (GMT-06:00) </div><div>To: Yahoo Groups ASKC <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> </div><div>Subject: Re: RE: [ASKC] Powell Friday Night </div><div>
</div>Steve King and I will open Powell regardless of the weather at 7:00. How long we stay will probably depend on the sky conditions.

Rick Henderson

Sent on the new Sprint Network from my Samsung Galaxy S®4.

-------- Original message --------
From: "George Klenklen gmklen@yahoo.com [ASKC]"
Date:01/23/2015 9:13 AM (GMT-06:00)
To: ASKC@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: RE: [ASKC] Powell Friday Night

Looks like it will only be clear after midnight! 
Is anyone still planning to go?

-Mason Klenklen

From:"rhenderson1 rhenderson1@kc.rr.com [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com>
Date:Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 12:26 PM
Subject:RE: [ASKC] Powell Friday Night

7:00 to at least 10:00, possibly longer depending on weather, volunteers and visitors.

Rick Henderson

Sent on the new Sprint Network from my Samsung Galaxy S®4.

-------- Original message --------
From: "Joseph Wright jos.wright@yahoo.com [ASKC]"
Date:01/21/2015 9:37 AM (GMT-06:00)
To: ASKC On Yahoogroups
Subject: [ASKC] Powell Friday Night

What are the hours of operation at Powell for the transit this Friday night? I am about to send out a broadcast at work and Twitter.

Thanks,

Joe

__________________________________________________________ 

Joseph S. Wright 

Cell Phone: (913) 208-0924 

Operations Manager, Warkoczewski Public Observatory (WPO) 
University of Missouri-Kansas City 

Vice-President, Astronomical Society of Kansas City 
Solar System Ambassador, NASA/JPL Volunteer Program 
Girl Scouts of NE Kansas-NW Missouri Aerospace/Astronomy/Weather S.T.E.M. Specialist 

I know Jason saw the bill last month and did some investigating because we didn't think we should be exceeding the limit.


---- "rhenderson1 rhenderson1@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote: 
> This really should be a new discussion thread, but while we're here ...

Are you guys monitoring how much data is being uploaded per hour or per day from the camera and the weather station? We got about a $150 bill from Verizon the last month which, I believe, is over double our usual bill. It looks like the camera is updating every 5 minutes, but I don't know the data size of the images.

Rick Henderson


Sent on the new Sprint Network from my Samsung Galaxy S®4.

<div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: "alehman@kc.rr.com [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> </div><div>Date:01/23/2015  11:27 AM  (GMT-06:00) </div><div>To: ASKC@yahoogroups.com </div><div>Subject: Re: RE: [ASKC] Powell Friday Night </div><div>
</div>Jason and I are working on a new all sky cam web page that includes data from the Powell weather station with the images.
Consider this a work in progress. Hopefully it will become part of a Powell weather web page which is in development.

http://www.askc.org/allsky_animation.html

If weather permits, I'll be attempting to photograph the transit from home as my rig isn't very portable.

Alan

---- "Scott s.kranz1@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote: 
> I plan to be there. It looks like only a few strings of clouds. Shouldn't be totally overcast. Never can tell.

Sent from inside the TARDIS

<div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: "rhenderson1 rhenderson1@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> </div><div>Date:01/23/2015 09:31  (GMT-06:00) </div><div>To: Yahoo Groups ASKC <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> </div><div>Subject: Re: RE: [ASKC] Powell Friday Night </div><div>
</div>Steve King and I will open Powell regardless of the weather at 7:00. How long we stay will probably depend on the sky conditions.

Rick Henderson

Sent on the new Sprint Network from my Samsung Galaxy S®4.

-------- Original message --------
From: "George Klenklen gmklen@... [ASKC]"
Date:01/23/2015 9:13 AM (GMT-06:00)
To: ASKC@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: RE: [ASKC] Powell Friday Night

Looks like it will only be clear after midnight! 
Is anyone still planning to go?

-Mason Klenklen

From:"rhenderson1 rhenderson1@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com>
Date:Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 12:26 PM
Subject:RE: [ASKC] Powell Friday Night

7:00 to at least 10:00, possibly longer depending on weather, volunteers and visitors.

Rick Henderson

Sent on the new Sprint Network from my Samsung Galaxy S®4.

-------- Original message --------
From: "Joseph Wright jos.wright@... [ASKC]"
Date:01/21/2015 9:37 AM (GMT-06:00)
To: ASKC On Yahoogroups
Subject: [ASKC] Powell Friday Night

What are the hours of operation at Powell for the transit this Friday night? I am about to send out a broadcast at work and Twitter.

Thanks,

Joe

__________________________________________________________ 

Joseph S. Wright 

Cell Phone: (913) 208-0924 

Operations Manager, Warkoczewski Public Observatory (WPO) 
University of Missouri-Kansas City 

Vice-President, Astronomical Society of Kansas City 
Solar System Ambassador, NASA/JPL Volunteer Program 
Girl Scouts of NE Kansas-NW Missouri Aerospace/Astronomy/Weather S.T.E.M. Specialist 

I plan to be there by 6:30.

 

Jerel Williams

 

From: ASKC@yahoogroups.com [mailto:ASKC@yahoogroups.com] 
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2015 9:32 AM
To: Yahoo Groups ASKC
Subject: Re: RE: [ASKC] Powell Friday Night

 

  

Steve King and I will open Powell regardless of the weather at 7:00. How long we stay will probably depend on the sky conditions.

 

Rick Henderson

 

 

Sent on the new Sprint Network from my Samsung Galaxy S®4.

 

-------- Original message --------

From: "George Klenklen gmklen@... [ASKC]" 

Date:01/23/2015 9:13 AM (GMT-06:00) 

To: ASKC@yahoogroups.com 

Subject: Re: RE: [ASKC] Powell Friday Night 

 

  


Looks like it will only be clear after midnight! 
Is anyone still planning to go?

-Mason Klenklen


From:"rhenderson1 rhenderson1@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com>
Date:Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 12:26 PM
Subject:RE: [ASKC] Powell Friday Night

  

7:00 to at least 10:00, possibly longer depending on weather, volunteers and visitors.

 

Rick Henderson

 

 

Sent on the new Sprint Network from my Samsung Galaxy S®4.

 

-------- Original message --------

From: "Joseph Wright jos.wright@... [ASKC]" 

Date:01/21/2015 9:37 AM (GMT-06:00) 

To: ASKC On Yahoogroups 

Subject: [ASKC] Powell Friday Night 

 

  

What are the hours of operation at Powell for the transit this Friday night?  I am about to send out a broadcast at work and Twitter.

 

Thanks,

 

Joe

 

_______________________________________________________________________________ 

Joseph S. Wright 

Cell Phone:  (913) 208-0924 

Operations Manager, Warkoczewski Public Observatory (WPO)   
  University of Missouri-Kansas City 

Vice-President, Astronomical Society of Kansas City 
Solar System Ambassador, NASA/JPL Volunteer Program 
Girl Scouts of NE Kansas-NW Missouri  Aerospace/Astronomy/Weather S.T.E.M. Specialist 

Will pass within 1.2 million Km on 1/26...
http://www.on7ami.be/Astronomy/Observations/Asteroids/2004_BL86/2004_BL86.aspx

There is a triple shadow transit on Jupiter late in the evening. They
intend to have training sessions on the 30" also. It will likely clear off
late in the evening so there may be some comet vieiwing/imaging as well.

Sent via Gmail from David Young

On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 11:09 AM, D Trent dtrent@... [ASKC] <
ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

>
>
> I guess I missed what is transiting tonight.
>
>
>
> On Jan 23, 2015, at 9:31 AM, rhenderson1 rhenderson1@... [ASKC] <
> ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
>
> Steve King and I will open Powell regardless of the weather at 7:00. How
> long we stay will probably depend on the sky conditions.
>
> Rick Henderson
>
>
> Sent on the new Sprint Network from my Samsung Galaxy S®4.
>
>
> -------- Original message --------
> From: "George Klenklen gmklen@... [ASKC]"
> Date:01/23/2015 9:13 AM (GMT-06:00)
> To: ASKC@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: RE: [ASKC] Powell Friday Night
>
>
>
> Looks like it will only be clear after midnight!
> Is anyone still planning to go?
>
> -Mason *Klenklen*
>   From:"rhenderson1 rhenderson1@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com>
> Date:Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 12:26 PM
> Subject:RE: [ASKC] Powell Friday Night
>
>
>
> 7:00 to at least 10:00, possibly longer depending on weather, volunteers
> and visitors.
>
> Rick Henderson
>
>
> Sent on the new Sprint Network from my Samsung Galaxy S®4.
>
>
> -------- Original message --------
> From: "Joseph Wright jos.wright@... [ASKC]"
> Date:01/21/2015 9:37 AM (GMT-06:00)
> To: ASKC On Yahoogroups
> Subject: [ASKC] Powell Friday Night
>
>
>
> What are the hours of operation at Powell for the transit this Friday
> night?  I am about to send out a broadcast at work and Twitter.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Joe
>
> _______________________________________________________________________________
>
>
> Joseph S. Wright
>
> Cell Phone:  (913) 208-0924
>
> Operations Manager, Warkoczewski Public Observatory (WPO)
>   University of Missouri-Kansas City
>
> Vice-President, Astronomical Society of Kansas City
> Solar System Ambassador, NASA/JPL Volunteer Program
> Girl Scouts of NE Kansas-NW Missouri  Aerospace/Astronomy/Weather S.T.E.M.
> Specialist
>
>       
>

I will be there at 6:30 also.

Tim
---- "'Jerel W' jerel1948@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote: 
> I plan to be there by 6:30.
> 
>  
> 
> Jerel Williams
> 
>  
> 
> From: ASKC@yahoogroups.com [mailto:ASKC@yahoogroups.com] 
> Sent: Friday, January 23, 2015 9:32 AM
> To: Yahoo Groups ASKC
> Subject: Re: RE: [ASKC] Powell Friday Night
> 
>  
> 
>   
> 
> Steve King and I will open Powell regardless of the weather at 7:00. How long we stay will probably depend on the sky conditions.
> 
>  
> 
> Rick Henderson
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
> Sent on the new Sprint Network from my Samsung Galaxy S®4.
> 
>  
> 
> -------- Original message --------
> 
> From: "George Klenklen gmklen@... [ASKC]" 
> 
> Date:01/23/2015 9:13 AM (GMT-06:00) 
> 
> To: ASKC@yahoogroups.com 
> 
> Subject: Re: RE: [ASKC] Powell Friday Night 
> 
>  
> 
>   
> 
> 
> Looks like it will only be clear after midnight! 
> Is anyone still planning to go?
> 
> -Mason Klenklen
> 
> 
> From:"rhenderson1 rhenderson1@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com>
> Date:Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 12:26 PM
> Subject:RE: [ASKC] Powell Friday Night
> 
>   
> 
> 7:00 to at least 10:00, possibly longer depending on weather, volunteers and visitors.
> 
>  
> 
> Rick Henderson
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
> Sent on the new Sprint Network from my Samsung Galaxy S®4.
> 
>  
> 
> -------- Original message --------
> 
> From: "Joseph Wright jos.wright@... [ASKC]" 
> 
> Date:01/21/2015 9:37 AM (GMT-06:00) 
> 
> To: ASKC On Yahoogroups 
> 
> Subject: [ASKC] Powell Friday Night 
> 
>  
> 
>   
> 
> What are the hours of operation at Powell for the transit this Friday night?  I am about to send out a broadcast at work and Twitter.
> 
>  
> 
> Thanks,
> 
>  
> 
> Joe
> 
>  
> 
> _______________________________________________________________________________ 
> 
> Joseph S. Wright 
> 
> Cell Phone:  (913) 208-0924 
> 
> Operations Manager, Warkoczewski Public Observatory (WPO)   
>   University of Missouri-Kansas City 
> 
> Vice-President, Astronomical Society of Kansas City 
> Solar System Ambassador, NASA/JPL Volunteer Program 
> Girl Scouts of NE Kansas-NW Missouri  Aerospace/Astronomy/Weather S.T.E.M. Specialist 
> 
> 
> 

Forecast cloudcover for 10PM looks hit-or-miss...
http://cleardarksky.com//f.php?Mn=Solar%20Power&p=4C1612PwwwlObKS

---- "David Young youngmdavid@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote: 
> There is a triple shadow transit on Jupiter late in the evening. They
> intend to have training sessions on the 30" also. It will likely clear off
> late in the evening so there may be some comet vieiwing/imaging as well.
> 
> Sent via Gmail from David Young
> 
> On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 11:09 AM, D Trent dtrent@... [ASKC] <
> ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> > I guess I missed what is transiting tonight.
> >
> >
> >
> > On Jan 23, 2015, at 9:31 AM, rhenderson1 rhenderson1@... [ASKC] <
> > ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
> >
> > Steve King and I will open Powell regardless of the weather at 7:00. How
> > long we stay will probably depend on the sky conditions.
> >
> > Rick Henderson
> >
> >
> > Sent on the new Sprint Network from my Samsung Galaxy S®4.
> >
> >
> > -------- Original message --------
> > From: "George Klenklen gmklen@... [ASKC]"
> > Date:01/23/2015 9:13 AM (GMT-06:00)
> > To: ASKC@yahoogroups.com
> > Subject: Re: RE: [ASKC] Powell Friday Night
> >
> >
> >
> > Looks like it will only be clear after midnight!
> > Is anyone still planning to go?
> >
> > -Mason *Klenklen*
> >   From:"rhenderson1 rhenderson1@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com>
> > Date:Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 12:26 PM
> > Subject:RE: [ASKC] Powell Friday Night
> >
> >
> >
> > 7:00 to at least 10:00, possibly longer depending on weather, volunteers
> > and visitors.
> >
> > Rick Henderson
> >
> >
> > Sent on the new Sprint Network from my Samsung Galaxy S®4.
> >
> >
> > -------- Original message --------
> > From: "Joseph Wright jos.wright@... [ASKC]"
> > Date:01/21/2015 9:37 AM (GMT-06:00)
> > To: ASKC On Yahoogroups
> > Subject: [ASKC] Powell Friday Night
> >
> >
> >
> > What are the hours of operation at Powell for the transit this Friday
> > night?  I am about to send out a broadcast at work and Twitter.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Joe
> >
> > _______________________________________________________________________________
> >
> >
> > Joseph S. Wright
> >
> > Cell Phone:  (913) 208-0924
> >
> > Operations Manager, Warkoczewski Public Observatory (WPO)
> >   University of Missouri-Kansas City
> >
> > Vice-President, Astronomical Society of Kansas City
> > Solar System Ambassador, NASA/JPL Volunteer Program
> > Girl Scouts of NE Kansas-NW Missouri  Aerospace/Astronomy/Weather S.T.E.M.
> > Specialist
> >
> >       
> >

 TRIPLE JOVIAN SHADOW TRANSIT

Friday January 23rd  

0310UT  (21:10 CST) - Callisto's shadow begins to cross theface of Jupiter
0436 UT  (22:26 CST) - Io's shadow begins to cross the face ofJupiter, the start of a double shadow transit event
0456 UT  (22:56 CST) - Io begins physical transit of Jupiter
0618 UT  (00:18 CST) - Callisto begins physical transit of Jupiter,the start of a double moon transit event
0626 UT  (00:26 CST) - Europa's shadow begins to cross theface of Jupiter, the start of a triple shadow transit event
0652 UT  (00:52 CST) - Io's shadow exits Jupiter's face, theend of the triple shadow transit event
0708 UT  (01:08 CST) - Europa begins physical transit in frontof Jupiter, the start of a triple moon transit event
0712 UT  (01:12 CST) - Io ends physical transit of Jupiter,the end of the triple moon transit event
0800 UT  (02:00 CST) - Callisto's shadow exits Jupiter's face,the end of the double shadow transit event
0922 UT  (03:22 CST) - Europa's shadow exits Jupiter's face,the end of the shadow transit event
1002 UT  (04:02 CST) - Europa ends physical transit ofJupiter, the end of the double moon transit event
1104 UT  (05:04 CST) - Callisto ends physical transit ofJupiter, the end of the moon transit event

  


 
  

___

Joseph S. Wright

Cell Phone:  (913) 208-0924

Operations Manager, Warkoczewski Public Observatory (WPO)  
  University of Missouri-Kansas City

Vice-President, Astronomical Society of Kansas City
Solar System Ambassador, NASA/JPL Volunteer Program
Girl Scouts of NE Kansas-NW Missouri  Aerospace/Astronomy/Weather S.T.E.M. Specialist

      From: "David Young youngmdavid@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com>
 To: "ASKC@yahoogroups.com" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> 
 Sent: Friday, January 23, 2015 1:47 PM
 Subject: Re: [ASKC] Powell Friday Night
   
    There is a triple shadow transit on Jupiter late in the evening. They intend to have training sessions on the 30" also. It will likely clear off late in the evening so there may be some comet vieiwing/imaging as well. 
Sent via Gmail from David Young


On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 11:09 AM, D Trent dtrent@... [ASKC] <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

     I guess I missed what is transiting tonight.



On Jan 23, 2015, at 9:31 AM, rhenderson1 rhenderson1@... [ASKC] <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:


 Steve King and I will open Powell regardless of the weather at 7:00. How long we stay will probably depend on the sky conditions.
Rick Henderson

Sent on the new Sprint Network from my Samsung Galaxy S®4.

-------- Original message --------From: "George Klenklen gmklen@... [ASKC]"  Date:01/23/2015 9:13 AM (GMT-06:00) To: ASKC@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: RE: [ASKC] Powell Friday Night 
   
| Looks like it will only be clear after midnight! 
Is anyone still planning to go?-Mason Klenklen 
|  From:"rhenderson1 rhenderson1@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com>
Date:Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 12:26 PM
Subject:RE: [ASKC] Powell Friday Night

     7:00 to at least 10:00, possibly longer depending on weather, volunteers and visitors.
Rick Henderson

Sent on the new Sprint Network from my Samsung Galaxy S®4.

-------- Original message --------From: "Joseph Wright jos.wright@... [ASKC]" Date:01/21/2015 9:37 AM (GMT-06:00) To: ASKC On Yahoogroups Subject: [ASKC] Powell Friday Night 
   What are the hours of operation at Powell for the transit this Friday night?  I am about to send out a broadcast at work and Twitter. Thanks, Joe _______________________________________________________________________________

Joseph S. Wright

Cell Phone:  (913) 208-0924

Operations Manager, Warkoczewski Public Observatory (WPO)  
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Holy cow, what a wonderful evening at Powell last night. While cloudy early in the evening (I was told about 50 visitors showed up), after 11pm we started getting big cloud breaks and two moon shadows (Io and Callisto) were easily seen in the 30”. Conditions continued to improve and Jupiter got high overhead by midnight...and we all had wonderful views of the triple transit – at least if you were tall enough to reach the eyepiece when the 30” is pointed almost straight up. (Difficult for those of us who are height challenged). There was some rushing to see it because the 3 shadows only lasted a bit over 20 minutes before Io’s shadow moved off the planet. 

The next triple transit visible from North America will be in 2032...so (being almost....well, older, now  : ^ ) I decided that I better get out to see this one, heh-heh! Really glad that I did, wow!

BTW, we also had fantastic views of Comet Lovejoy and the Jupiter moon shadows thru Scott Kranz humongous Starmaster (22”? I forget). Scott showed me something I have never seen before in 45 years of observing...the amazingly dark grey disk of Jupiter’s moon Callisto crossing in front of the _much_ brighter yellow face of the planet.  This moon really is dark! Way cool! Anyone else notice this??

Dave Hudgins

Thanks David! But it's a 20-inch. Yes, seeing Io and Callisto side-by-side really showed the color difference nicely. 
50? I would have thought more. I had a steady line at my scope with many times haivng 10-12 people in line. There were also 4 Ray-Pec students out from Darricks class. Had fun time with them teaching Seeing and Transparancy. Had many that it was their first visit to Powell. One family came down from Smithville area even. Many asked about membership and summer public nights. I was surprised that there were not more members out with scopes. It was a great night! 
  
Besides awesome views of Lovejoy (easy naked eye at Powell) and the Jupiter transit, I also showed the Orion Nebula, Eskimo Nebula, Running Man nebula (yup, it was easily visible), M81 & M82, M65 & M66, Flame Nebula, M79, Tombaugh 1 and 2, and several other things that I can't remember. I think everyone who showed up got at least 1 view of the comet and some other object. A nicely star-filled field of view made it so motion was apparent after 10 minutes. 
  
Several times, to the north and south both, were bright groups of dancing light pillars high in the air. The public loved that! A nice bright group to the north was probably created by the lights around Penny Concrete. The ones to the south were hovering over the Ford dealership. Although there is no way of telling what light source they were really from. They were beautiful to see. Don't know what I'm talking about? Google "light pillars" and see the atmospheric optics link:   http://www.atoptics.co.uk/halo/lpil.htm 
  
The temperture at 4:00am when I left was 25 degrees and there was a good frost covering everything. 
  
...and due to a anniversary party that we had promised to go to (and completely forgot about until being reminded this morning), I will not be able to make the General Meeting tonight. 
  
So mark the calender... 2032 nest triple shadow transit and 16327 when Lovejoy comes back! 
  
-scott 

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Subject: [ASKC] Jupiter Transit Report - from Powell 

  
Holy cow, what a wonderful evening at Powell last night. While cloudy early in the evening (I was told about 50 visitors showed up), after 11pm we started getting big cloud breaks and two moon shadows (Io and Callisto) were easily seen in the 30”. Conditions continued to improve and Jupiter got high overhead by midnight...and we all had wonderful views of the triple transit – at least if you were tall enough to reach the eyepiece when the 30” is pointed almost straight up. (Difficult for those of us who are height challenged). There was some rushing to see it because the 3 shadows only lasted a bit over 20 minutes before Io’s shadow moved off the planet. 
  
The next triple transit visible from North America will be in 2032...so (being almost....well, older, now  : ^ ) I decided that I better get out to see this one, heh-heh! Really glad that I did, wow! 
  
BTW, we also had fantastic views of Comet Lovejoy and the Jupiter moon shadows thru Scott Kranz humongous Starmaster (22”? I forget). Scott showed me something I have never seen before in 45 years of observing...the amazingly dark grey disk of Jupiter’s moon Callisto crossing in front of the _much_ brighter yellow face of the planet.  This moon really is dark! Way cool! Anyone else notice this?? 
  
Dave Hudgins 
 

I had 10 people from big to little at my scope last night looking at Jupiter.  all of them had never seen Jupiter thro a telescope.  my 8 inch dob with a 10mm showed a nice view. altho the focus would come an go, when it was good the shadows were there.  this was my first ever seeing anything like this. something to always remember.  I left at 0145. the sky was beautiful. there was a line at 30 inch for most of the night.  the night was a great experience.   peace be with you   r. schoenberger

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Just uploaded a video animation I made of the triple transit last night to the files area. The video runs from 06:09 through about 07:17UT, which includes the triple transit phase and some time on each side of the event. The clouds cleared just in time in Prairie Village, but the seeing was fairly poor so the images aren't sharpest.

Should be relatively easy to observe with a small telescope. Expected to be 9th magnitude. Passes near/through M44 (Beehive) open cluster between 11 PM and midnight CST, two nights from now as I post this.

Asteroid to pass so close on Monday you'll see it with binoculars http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2924110/Asteroid-set-pass-close-Monday-ll-able-binoculars-Earth-s-closest-call-2027-poses-no-threat-foreseeable-future.html


 
 
 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2924110/Asteroid-set-pass-close-Monday-ll-able-binoculars-Earth-s-closest-call-2027-poses-no-threat-foreseeable-future.html 
 
 Asteroid to pass so close on Monday you'll see it wi... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2924110/Asteroid-set-pass-close-Monday-ll-able-binoculars-Earth-s-closest-call-2027-poses-no-threat-foreseeable-future.html The asteroid, designated 2004 BL86, will safely pass about three times the distance of Earth to the moon on January 26.
 
 
 
 View on www.dailymail.co.uk http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2924110/Asteroid-set-pass-close-Monday-ll-able-binoculars-Earth-s-closest-call-2027-poses-no-threat-foreseeable-future.html 
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 When
 Weekday
 What
 1/26
 Monday
 2004 BL86 flyby, evening
 2/3
 Tuesday
 Full Snow Moon, 5:09 PM CST
 2/6
 Friday
 Zodiacal Light visible in W after evening twilight for next 2 weeks
 2/6
 Friday
 Jupiter at opposition
 2/7
 Saturday
 ASKC members-only night, 7 PM, Gottlieb
 Planetarium, Union Station
 2/16
 Monday
 ASKC Board Meeting, 7 PM, Rockhurst Community Center
 2/18
 Wednesday
 New Moon, 5:47 PM CST
 2/28
 Saturday
 ASKC General Meeting
 4/4
 Saturday
 lunar eclipse, umbral portion 5:15 – 7:04 AM CDT
 7/18
 Saturday
 Moon-Venus-Jupiter-Regulus conjunction, evening
 8/12
 Wednesday
 Perseid meteor shower, ZHR 90; moonrise 5:38 AM CDT Thursday morning
 9/27
 Sunday
 lunar eclipse, umbral portion 8:07 – 11:27 PM CDT
 10/8-11
 Thursday - Sunday
 Heart of America Star Party, ASKC Dark Sky Site; http://www.hoasp.org/
 10/10
 Saturday
 Moon-Mercury-Venus-Mars-Jupiter-Regulus conjunction, morning
 12/14
 Monday
 Geminid meteor shower, ZHR 120; moonset 8:31 PM CST
  
 

Any interest in opening Powell for the asteroid flyby Monday night?

Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE DROID

I think Richard F is planning on it and I will join if someone does.  He has the data!



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If someone is willing to open up I'm interested in coming down.

Dennis

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That is a really nice job you did there Alan. It looked great on the big screen at the meeting tonight. At first I thought I was seeing 4 shadows, but then I realized Callisto, as it comes in at upper left, is not the 4th shadow, just a very dark Callisto against the backdrop of Jupiter. I never realized Callisto was so much darker than the other moons. Io is showing detail also. Fantastic! What scope and camera did you use and did you use a barlow or eyepiece projection?  Tom J Martinez
http://tomjmartinez.blogspot.com/ 

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     Just uploaded a video animation I made of the triple transit last night to the files area. The video runs from 06:09 through about 07:17UT, which includes the triple transit phase and some time on each side of the event. The clouds cleared just in time in Prairie Village, but the seeing was fairly poor so the images aren't sharpest.
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I didn't see the Messier Marathon on the list. 
Would you happen to know if the dates have been set?

Thanks,
Cindy Bahl

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When

Weekday

What

1/26

Monday

2004 BL86 flyby, evening

2/3

Tuesday

Full Snow Moon, 5:09 PM CST

2/6

Friday

Zodiacal Light visible in W after evening twilight for next 2 weeks

2/6

Friday

Jupiter at opposition

2/7

Saturday

ASKC members-only night, 7 PM, Gottlieb

Planetarium, Union Station

2/16

Monday

ASKC Board Meeting, 7 PM, Rockhurst Community Center

2/18

Wednesday

New Moon, 5:47 PM CST

2/28

Saturday

ASKC General Meeting

4/4
Saturday
lunar eclipse, umbral portion 5:15 – 7:04 AM CDT
7/18
Saturday
Moon-Venus-Jupiter-Regulus conjunction, evening
8/12
Wednesday
Perseid meteor shower, ZHR 90; moonrise 5:38 AM CDT Thursday morning
9/27
Sunday
lunar eclipse, umbral portion 8:07 – 11:27 PM CDT
10/8-11
Thursday - Sunday
Heart of America Star Party, ASKC Dark Sky Site; http://www.hoasp.org/
10/10
Saturday
Moon-Mercury-Venus-Mars-Jupiter-Regulus conjunction, morning
12/14
Monday
Geminid meteor shower, ZHR 120; moonset 8:31 PM CST
 

Per USNO, New Moon is at 2015 March 20 4:36 AM CDT. That’s a Friday, so I’m guessing Saturday the 21st. Scott? 

---In ASKC@yahoogroups.com, <cindylchesley@...> wrote :

 I didn't see the Messier Marathon on the list. 
 Would you happen to know if the dates have been set?

Thanks, Cindy Bahl

 
 On Jan 24, 2015, at 9:38 PM, jay_manifold@... mailto:jay_manifold@... [ASKC] <ASKC@yahoogroups.com mailto:ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:


   
 Merged and reformatted …
  
 When
 Weekday
 What
 1/26
 Monday
 2004 BL86 flyby, evening
 2/3
 Tuesday
 Full Snow Moon, 5:09 PM CST
 2/6
 Friday
 Zodiacal Light visible in W after evening twilight for next 2 weeks
 2/6
 Friday
 Jupiter at opposition
 2/7
 Saturday
 ASKC members-only night, 7 PM, Gottlieb
 Planetarium, Union Station
 2/16
 Monday
 ASKC Board Meeting, 7 PM, Rockhurst Community Center
 2/18
 Wednesday
 New Moon, 5:47 PM CST
 2/28
 Saturday
 ASKC General Meeting
 4/4
 Saturday
 lunar eclipse, umbral portion 5:15 – 7:04 AM CDT
 7/18
 Saturday
 Moon-Venus-Jupiter-Regulus conjunction, evening
 8/12
 Wednesday
 Perseid meteor shower, ZHR 90; moonrise 5:38 AM CDT Thursday morning
 9/27
 Sunday
 lunar eclipse, umbral portion 8:07 – 11:27 PM CDT
 10/8-11
 Thursday - Sunday
 Heart of America Star Party, ASKC Dark Sky Site; http://www.hoasp.org/ http://www.hoasp.org/
 10/10
 Saturday
 Moon-Mercury-Venus-Mars-Jupiter-Regulus conjunction, morning
 12/14
 Monday
 Geminid meteor shower, ZHR 120; moonset 8:31 PM CST
  
 

 

Messier Marathon will be held March 20-22.

Not quite sure what is meant by the 2/6 zodical light for 2 weeks item.

The zodical light can be seen the the west after sunset throughout February, March, and April. It isnt till May when the ecliptic starts to angle back down again and the zodical light gets harder to see.

-scott

Sent from inside the TARDIS

<div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: "CindyLChesleyYahoo cindylchesley@yahoo.com [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> </div><div>Date:01/25/2015  01:08  (GMT-06:00) </div><div>To: ASKC@yahoogroups.com </div><div>Subject: Re: [ASKC] Upcoming Events List from “Educational Moment” </div><div>
</div>I didn't see the Messier Marathon on the list. 
Would you happen to know if the dates have been set?

Thanks,
Cindy Bahl

On Jan 24, 2015, at 9:38 PM, jay_manifold@yahoo.com [ASKC] <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

 
Merged and reformatted …

 

When

Weekday

What

1/26

Monday

2004 BL86 flyby, evening

2/3

Tuesday

Full Snow Moon, 5:09 PM CST

2/6

Friday

Zodiacal Light visible in W after evening twilight for next 2 weeks

2/6

Friday

Jupiter at opposition

2/7

Saturday

ASKC members-only night, 7 PM, Gottlieb

Planetarium, Union Station

2/16

Monday

ASKC Board Meeting, 7 PM, Rockhurst Community Center

2/18

Wednesday

New Moon, 5:47 PM CST

2/28

Saturday

ASKC General Meeting

4/4
Saturday
lunar eclipse, umbral portion 5:15 – 7:04 AM CDT
7/18
Saturday
Moon-Venus-Jupiter-Regulus conjunction, evening
8/12
Wednesday
Perseid meteor shower, ZHR 90; moonrise 5:38 AM CDT Thursday morning
9/27
Sunday
lunar eclipse, umbral portion 8:07 – 11:27 PM CDT
10/8-11
Thursday - Sunday
Heart of America Star Party, ASKC Dark Sky Site; http://www.hoasp.org/
10/10
Saturday
Moon-Mercury-Venus-Mars-Jupiter-Regulus conjunction, morning
12/14
Monday
Geminid meteor shower, ZHR 120; moonset 8:31 PM CST
 

Under the files tab. The file name is "jup-201501240609_7.avi". 
Let me know if you don't see it and I can email it to you.

---- "randracsek@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote: 
> I can't find the animation upload.  I'd really like to show it to Evan since he didn't stay at Powell long enough to view it live.  But I can't find it.  I clicked on "files" at the top of the page (conversations...photos...files...more). Can someone direct me to the right way to find it?  Thanks.
>   
>  -Robynn Andracsek
> 

Thanks Tom. That means a lot coming from you. Yeah, I had the same thought as you about Callisto when I first saw it, but I've been fooled by it before. 

I used my 8" Newt f/6.5 with a 2x Barlow and a spacer (and filter wheel) to get effectively f/22. The camera is a high speed industrial monochrome CCD video camera. If the seeing is good sometimes I'll use a little longer focal length.

Here's a quick summary of the process...
I use Firecapture to capture three 2-minute avis with red, green and blue filters for each frame of the animation. I use Autostakkert to select and stack the best 70% of the images from each avi to create red, green and blue images. Then I process these with Reigstax using wavelet sharpening. Next I use WinJupos to de-rotate and combine the three mono images into a single color image. De-rotation adjusts the images for the rotation of the planet and moons. This step isn't absolutely necessary, but if you don't the images will be slightly blurred in the direction of rotation. It also makes registering the sub-frames easy. Then just a little unsharp masking and Gaussian blur with GIMP. Repeat for each frame.


---- "Tom Martinez zenitrammot@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote: 
> That is a really nice job you did there Alan. It looked great on the big screen at the meeting tonight. At first I thought I was seeing 4 shadows, but then I realized Callisto, as it comes in at upper left, is not the 4th shadow, just a very dark Callisto against the backdrop of Jupiter. I never realized Callisto was so much darker than the other moons. Io is showing detail also. Fantastic! What scope and camera did you use and did you use a barlow or eyepiece projection?  Tom J Martinez
> http://tomjmartinez.blogspot.com/ 
> 
>      On Saturday, January 24, 2015 3:03 PM, "alehman@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
>    
> 
>      Just uploaded a video animation I made of the triple transit last night to the files area. The video runs from 06:09 through about 07:17UT, which includes the triple transit phase and some time on each side of the event. The clouds cleared just in time in Prairie Village, but the seeing was fairly poor so the images aren't sharpest.
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From NASA..... Check out the panoramic shot from Opportunity Rover on its
11th anniversay (on a 90-day mission) Saturday, Jan. 24, 2015: PIA19109
(underscore) hires (dot) jpg

M

Alan,

Gosh you created an amazing video! 

But please give us the technical details – scope, camera, software processing, etc. We are all geeks for this stuff and want to know!

Dave Hudgins 

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That was on my February-only list. It's only good for a couple of weeks a month because that's when it's not interfered with by moonlight.
 

---In ASKC@yahoogroups.com, <s.kranz1@...> wrote :

 Messier Marathon will be held March 20-22.
 

 Not quite sure what is meant by the 2/6 zodical light for 2 weeks item.
 

 The zodical light can be seen the the west after sunset throughout February, March, and April. It isnt till May when the ecliptic starts to angle back down again and the zodical light gets harder to see.
 

 -scott
 

 Sent from inside the TARDIS


 -------- Original message --------
 From: "CindyLChesleyYahoo cindylchesley@... [ASKC]"
 Date:01/25/2015 01:08 (GMT-06:00)
 To: ASKC@yahoogroups.com
 Subject: Re: [ASKC] Upcoming Events List from “Educational Moment”
 

   
 I didn't see the Messier Marathon on the list. 
 Would you happen to know if the dates have been set?

Thanks, Cindy Bahl

 
 On Jan 24, 2015, at 9:38 PM, jay_manifold@... mailto:jay_manifold@... [ASKC] <ASKC@yahoogroups.com mailto:ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:


   
 Merged and reformatted …
  
 When
 Weekday
 What
 1/26
 Monday
 2004 BL86 flyby, evening
 2/3
 Tuesday
 Full Snow Moon, 5:09 PM CST
 2/6
 Friday
 Zodiacal Light visible in W after evening twilight for next 2 weeks
 2/6
 Friday
 Jupiter at opposition
 2/7
 Saturday
 ASKC members-only night, 7 PM, Gottlieb
 Planetarium, Union Station
 2/16
 Monday
 ASKC Board Meeting, 7 PM, Rockhurst Community Center
 2/18
 Wednesday
 New Moon, 5:47 PM CST
 2/28
 Saturday
 ASKC General Meeting
 4/4
 Saturday
 lunar eclipse, umbral portion 5:15 – 7:04 AM CDT
 7/18
 Saturday
 Moon-Venus-Jupiter-Regulus conjunction, evening
 8/12
 Wednesday
 Perseid meteor shower, ZHR 90; moonrise 5:38 AM CDT Thursday morning
 9/27
 Sunday
 lunar eclipse, umbral portion 8:07 – 11:27 PM CDT
 10/8-11
 Thursday - Sunday
 Heart of America Star Party, ASKC Dark Sky Site; http://www.hoasp.org/ http://www.hoasp.org/
 10/10
 Saturday
 Moon-Mercury-Venus-Mars-Jupiter-Regulus conjunction, morning
 12/14
 Monday
 Geminid meteor shower, ZHR 120; moonset 8:31 PM CST
  
 

 


 

I'd be there.  Please advise.

 

Jerel Williams

jerel1948@...

 

 

 

From: ASKC@yahoogroups.com [mailto:ASKC@yahoogroups.com] 
Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2015 10:02 PM
To: ASKC@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [ASKC] Asteroid

 

  

Any interest in opening Powell for the asteroid flyby Monday night?

 

Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE DROID

I can make it.  I've never looked through the scope at Powell.

 
Jim Carothers


On Sunday, January 25, 2015 8:11 PM, "'Jerel W' jerel1948@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
 


  
I'd be there.  Please advise.
 
Jerel Williams
jerel1948@...
 
 
 
From:ASKC@yahoogroups.com [mailto:ASKC@yahoogroups.com] 
Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2015 10:02 PM
To: ASKC@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [ASKC] Asteroid
 
  
Any interest in opening Powell for the asteroid flyby Monday night?
 
Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE DROID

Was anyone able to observe the Ganymede-Europa occultation last night?
 

 Grant Miller

There has been some chatter about observing the asteroid "flyby" tonght but
nothing official. Therefore I have reserved Powell for tonight. I plan to
arrive between 8:00 and 9:00 to observe the comet and of course hopefully
the flyby.

Several non members have called today asking if we will be open. Although
there has been no advertising inviting the public I expect we will get a
few drop ins in addition to a few members.

Everyone, members or not is invited tonight. Come on down. It looks like it
will be an unusual winter evening with warm clear sky!


Sent via Gmail from David Young

Should I advertise it on Facebook that it's open to the public tonight?

Thanks,
Cindy Bahl

On Jan 26, 2015, at 11:02 AM, David Young youngmdavid@gmail.com [ASKC] <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

There has been some chatter about observing the asteroid "flyby" tonght but nothing official. Therefore I have reserved Powell for tonight. I plan to arrive between 8:00 and 9:00 to observe the comet and of course hopefully the flyby.

Several non members have called today asking if we will be open. Although there has been no advertising inviting the public I expect we will get a few drop ins in addition to a few members.

Everyone, members or not is invited tonight. Come on down. It looks like it will be an unusual winter evening with warm clear sky!

 
Sent via Gmail from David Young

Absolutely! If clear, I’ll be at Powell with my trusty 6” dob and necessary charts.  

Probably not until 9PM however.  : ^ )

Dave Hudgins

The Science Fair Jan. 27th (Tuesday)6-8 pm.   We have a back door that opens to a nice open area - looking toward the south.   Set up could be done anytime after 4.  

John Nowlin Elementary
 5020 Valley View Road
 Blue Springs, MO 64015
 
  
Joe _______________________________________________________________________________

Joseph S. Wright

Cell Phone:  (913) 208-0924

Operations Manager, Warkoczewski Public Observatory (WPO)  
  University of Missouri-Kansas City

Vice-President, Astronomical Society of Kansas City
Solar System Ambassador, NASA/JPL Volunteer Program
Girl Scouts of NE Kansas-NW Missouri  Aerospace/Astronomy/Weather S.T.E.M. Specialist

Joe,
I didn't have you on the list for John Nowlin. I'll forward you the coordination info.


---- "Joseph Wright jos.wright@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote: 
> The Science Fair Jan. 27th (Tuesday)6-8 pm.   We have a back door that opens to a nice open area - looking toward the south.   Set up could be done anytime after 4.  
> 
> John Nowlin Elementary
>  5020 Valley View Road
>  Blue Springs, MO 64015
>  
>   
> Joe _______________________________________________________________________________
> 
> Joseph S. Wright
> 
> Cell Phone:  (913) 208-0924
> 
> Operations Manager, Warkoczewski Public Observatory (WPO)  
>   University of Missouri-Kansas City
> 
> Vice-President, Astronomical Society of Kansas City
> Solar System Ambassador, NASA/JPL Volunteer Program
> Girl Scouts of NE Kansas-NW Missouri  Aerospace/Astronomy/Weather S.T.E.M. Specialist

Do we have enough people for this event?

 
Jim & Laura Carothers


On Monday, January 26, 2015 12:22 PM, "alehman@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
 


  
Joe,
I didn't have you on the list for John Nowlin. I'll forward you the coordination info.

---- "Joseph Wright jos.wright@yahoo.com [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote: 
> The Science Fair Jan. 27th (Tuesday)6-8 pm.   We have a back door that opens to a nice open area - looking toward the south.   Set up could be done anytime after 4.  
> 
> John Nowlin Elementary
>  5020 Valley View Road
>  Blue Springs, MO 64015
>  
>   
> Joe __________________________________________________________
> 
> Joseph S. Wright
> 
> Cell Phone:  (913) 208-0924
> 
> Operations Manager, Warkoczewski Public Observatory (WPO)  
>   University of Missouri-Kansas City
> 
> Vice-President, Astronomical Society of Kansas City
> Solar System Ambassador, NASA/JPL Volunteer Program
> Girl Scouts of NE Kansas-NW Missouri  Aerospace/Astronomy/Weather S.T.E.M. Specialist

So, I just checked my and this request came into my old, not used, not published Roadrunner email address.What say ye, any of you game for this?  I haven't replied.Joe   WE NEED YOU… TO MAKE THIS EVENING AWESOME!!Science Night 2015Theme: We are going…. GREEN… and everything SCIENCE!!When and Where:  April 22nd @ Santa Fe Trail Middle School 1100 N. Ridgeview Rd. Olathe, Kansas 66061Time: 6:00 until 8:00 p.m. (Set up 5...Doors open 6-8 p.m.)Admission is FREE to all Olathe Families!If you have any questions please contact Amy Hillman @ Santa Fe (913)780-7290 or (913) 544-4732! ahillmansf@... let me know if we can count on you!!!!! J  _______________________________________________________________________________

Joseph S. Wright

Cell Phone:  (913) 208-0924

Operations Manager, Warkoczewski Public Observatory (WPO)  
  University of Missouri-Kansas City

Vice-President, Astronomical Society of Kansas City
Solar System Ambassador, NASA/JPL Volunteer Program
Girl Scouts of NE Kansas-NW Missouri  Aerospace/Astronomy/Weather S.T.E.M. Specialist

As of now we have 8 signed up, so we should be good.

---- "james carothers cwhocares40@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote: 
> Do we have enough people for this event?
> 
>  
> Jim & Laura Carothers
> 
> 
> On Monday, January 26, 2015 12:22 PM, "alehman@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
>  
> 
> 
>   
> Joe,
> I didn't have you on the list for John Nowlin. I'll forward you the coordination info.
> 
> ---- "Joseph Wright jos.wright@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote: 
> > The Science Fair Jan. 27th (Tuesday)6-8 pm.   We have a back door that opens to a nice open area - looking toward the south.   Set up could be done anytime after 4.  
> > 
> > John Nowlin Elementary
> >  5020 Valley View Road
> >  Blue Springs, MO 64015
> >  
> >   
> > Joe __________________________________________________________
> > 
> > Joseph S. Wright
> > 
> > Cell Phone:  (913) 208-0924
> > 
> > Operations Manager, Warkoczewski Public Observatory (WPO)  
> >   University of Missouri-Kansas City
> > 
> > Vice-President, Astronomical Society of Kansas City
> > Solar System Ambassador, NASA/JPL Volunteer Program
> > Girl Scouts of NE Kansas-NW Missouri  Aerospace/Astronomy/Weather S.T.E.M. Specialist
> 
> 

I'll have to miss this one. If anyone that's going to be at Powell tonight
wants to use the new meteorite microscope I'll bring it down. Heck might as
well bring it down anyway along with a few rocks for people to play with
while they get warm.

Sent via Gmail from David Young

On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 12:06 PM, Joseph Wright jos.wright@... [ASKC]
<ASKC@...m> wrote:

>
>
> The Science Fair
> Jan. 27th (Tuesday)
> 6-8 pm.
> We have a back door that opens to a nice open area - looking toward the
> south.
>
> Set up could be done anytime after 4.
>
>
> John Nowlin Elementary
> 5020 Valley View Road
> Blue Springs, MO 64015
>
>
> Joe
>
> _______________________________________________________________________________
>
>
> Joseph S. Wright
>
> Cell Phone:  (913) 208-0924
>
> Operations Manager, Warkoczewski Public Observatory (WPO)
>   University of Missouri-Kansas City
>
> Vice-President, Astronomical Society of Kansas City
> Solar System Ambassador, NASA/JPL Volunteer Program
> Girl Scouts of NE Kansas-NW Missouri  Aerospace/Astronomy/Weather S.T.E.M.
> Specialist
>
>  
>

santa fe trail middle school is a good one I was there last year, and will be there this year.  r. schoenberger
 

     From: "Joseph Wright jos.wright@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com>
 To: ASKC On Yahoogroups <askc@yahoogroups.com> 
 Sent: Monday, January 26, 2015 12:38 PM
 Subject: [ASKC] Yet another school night
   
    So, I just checked my and this request came into my old, not used, not published Roadrunner email address.What say ye, any of you game for this?  I haven't replied.Joe   WE NEED YOU… TO MAKE THIS EVENING AWESOME!!Science Night 2015Theme: We are going…. GREEN… and everything SCIENCE!!When and Where:  April 22nd @ Santa Fe Trail Middle School 1100 N. Ridgeview Rd. Olathe, Kansas 66061Time: 6:00 until 8:00 p.m. (Set up 5...Doors open 6-8 p.m.)Admission is FREE to all Olathe Families!If you have any questions please contact Amy Hillman @ Santa Fe (913)780-7290 or (913) 544-4732! ahillmansf@... let me know if we can count on you!!!!! J  _______________________________________________________________________________

Joseph S. Wright

Cell Phone:  (913) 208-0924

Operations Manager, Warkoczewski Public Observatory (WPO)  
  University of Missouri-Kansas City

Vice-President, Astronomical Society of Kansas City
Solar System Ambassador, NASA/JPL Volunteer Program
Girl Scouts of NE Kansas-NW Missouri  Aerospace/Astronomy/Weather S.T.E.M. Specialist
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Despite last years poorly behaved students, I will be there with my scope as well.   Pete

This message came through the League webpage a day or two ago, if anyone is
able to do this one.

 

Thanks!

 

Carroll Iorg

Media Officer and Convention Coordinator

Astronomical League

9201 Ward Parkway, Suite 100

Kansas City MO  64114

816 333 7759

carroll.iorg@...

www.astroleague.org

 

 

 

 

 

--- Message from Kim-Marie Graham kim-marie@... ---

Subject: School Events?

Our school PTA is hoping to host an astronomy night including both learning
activities and star watching on either the evening of April 16 or 17, 2015.
We are looking for some expert astronomers to guide our watching and provide
telescopes.  Please let me know if this is something your group can help
with. We are able to make a donation in exchange for services. Thank you in
advance.

 

 

Several people (Mike Stewart and I,?) replied about this a few weeks ago when David posted it.  I thought word was given to them and that they needed to specify a night.  Could be the left hand has no clue what the other left hand is doing at EPCI. Joe _______________________________________________________________________________

Joseph S. Wright

Cell Phone:  (913) 208-0924

Operations Manager, Warkoczewski Public Observatory (WPO)  
  University of Missouri-Kansas City

Vice-President, Astronomical Society of Kansas City
Solar System Ambassador, NASA/JPL Volunteer Program
Girl Scouts of NE Kansas-NW Missouri  Aerospace/Astronomy/Weather S.T.E.M. Specialist

      From: "'Carroll Iorg' carroll.iorg@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com>
 To: ASKC@yahoogroups.com 
 Sent: Monday, January 26, 2015 3:37 PM
 Subject: [ASKC] Request from EPIC Elementary, 650 Conistor, Liberty MO for help with an astronomy night 4/16 or 4/17
   
    This message came through the League webpage a day or two ago, if anyone is able to do this one.  Thanks!  Carroll IorgMedia Officer and Convention CoordinatorAstronomical League9201 Ward Parkway, Suite 100Kansas City MO  64114816 333 7759carroll.iorg@....astroleague.org           --- Message from Kim-Marie Graham kim-marie@... ---

Subject: School Events?

Our school PTA is hoping to host an astronomy night including both learning
activities and star watching on either the evening of April 16 or 17, 2015.
We are looking for some expert astronomers to guide our watching and provide
telescopes.  Please let me know if this is something your group can help
with. We are able to make a donation in exchange for services. Thank you in
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Believe that was David Stewart. Liberty is a pretty fair trek from Lenexa. =]

 

From: ASKC@yahoogroups.com [mailto:ASKC@yahoogroups.com] 
Sent: Monday, January 26, 2015 4:24 PM
To: ASKC@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [ASKC] Request from EPIC Elementary, 650 Conistor, Liberty MO for help with an astronomy night 4/16 or 4/17

 






Several people (Mike Stewart and I,?) replied about this a few weeks ago when David posted it.  I thought word was given to them and that they needed to specify a night.  Could be the left hand has no clue what the other left hand is doing at EPCI.

 

Joe

 

_______________________________________________________________________________ 

Joseph S. Wright 

Cell Phone:  (913) 208-0924 

Operations Manager, Warkoczewski Public Observatory (WPO)   
  University of Missouri-Kansas City 

Vice-President, Astronomical Society of Kansas City 
Solar System Ambassador, NASA/JPL Volunteer Program 
Girl Scouts of NE Kansas-NW Missouri  Aerospace/Astronomy/Weather S.T.E.M. Specialist 

 

  _____  

From: "'Carroll Iorg' carroll.iorg@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com>
To: ASKC@yahoogroups.com 
Sent: Monday, January 26, 2015 3:37 PM
Subject: [ASKC] Request from EPIC Elementary, 650 Conistor, Liberty MO for help with an astronomy night 4/16 or 4/17

 

  

This message came through the League webpage a day or two ago, if anyone is able to do this one.

 

Thanks!

 

Carroll Iorg

Media Officer and Convention Coordinator

Astronomical League

9201 Ward Parkway, Suite 100

Kansas City MO  64114

816 333 7759

carroll.iorg@gmail.com

www.astroleague.org

 

 

 

 

 

--- Message from Kim-Marie Graham kim-marie@... <mailto:kim-marie@...>  ---

Subject: School Events?

Our school PTA is hoping to host an astronomy night including both learning
activities and star watching on either the evening of April 16 or 17, 2015.
We are looking for some expert astronomers to guide our watching and provide
telescopes.  Please let me know if this is something your group can help
with. We are able to make a donation in exchange for services. Thank you in
advance.

 

 

 










[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

I got 50% of the name correct.  You Dave's and Stewart's all look a like...not really.Joe _______________________________________________________________________________

Joseph S. Wright

Cell Phone:  (913) 208-0924

Operations Manager, Warkoczewski Public Observatory (WPO)  
  University of Missouri-Kansas City

Vice-President, Astronomical Society of Kansas City
Solar System Ambassador, NASA/JPL Volunteer Program
Girl Scouts of NE Kansas-NW Missouri  Aerospace/Astronomy/Weather S.T.E.M. Specialist

      From: "'Mike Stewart' mike.n0tu@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com>
 To: ASKC@yahoogroups.com 
 Sent: Monday, January 26, 2015 4:45 PM
 Subject: RE: [ASKC] Request from EPIC Elementary, 650 Conistor, Liberty MO for help with an astronomy night 4/16 or 4/17
   
    Believe that was David Stewart. Liberty is a pretty fair trek from Lenexa. =]

From: ASKC@yahoogroups.com [mailto:ASKC@yahoogroups.com] 
Sent: Monday, January 26, 2015 4:24 PM
To: ASKC@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [ASKC] Request from EPIC Elementary, 650 Conistor, Liberty MO for help with an astronomy night 4/16 or 4/17

Several people (Mike Stewart and I,?) replied about this a few weeks ago when David posted it. I thought word was given to them and that they needed to specify a night. Could be the left hand has no clue what the other left hand is doing at EPCI.

Joe

__________________________________________________________ 

Joseph S. Wright 

Cell Phone: (913) 208-0924 

Operations Manager, Warkoczewski Public Observatory (WPO) 
 University of Missouri-Kansas City 

Vice-President, Astronomical Society of Kansas City 
Solar System Ambassador, NASA/JPL Volunteer Program 
Girl Scouts of NE Kansas-NW Missouri Aerospace/Astronomy/Weather S.T.E.M. Specialist 

_____ 

From: "'Carroll Iorg' carroll.iorg@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com>
To: ASKC@yahoogroups.com 
Sent: Monday, January 26, 2015 3:37 PM
Subject: [ASKC] Request from EPIC Elementary, 650 Conistor, Liberty MO for help with an astronomy night 4/16 or 4/17

This message came through the League webpage a day or two ago, if anyone is able to do this one.

Thanks!

Carroll Iorg

Media Officer and Convention Coordinator

Astronomical League

9201 Ward Parkway, Suite 100

Kansas City MO 64114

816 333 7759

carroll.iorg@...

www.astroleague.org

--- Message from Kim-Marie Graham kim-marie@... <mailto:kim-marie@...> ---

Subject: School Events?

Our school PTA is hoping to host an astronomy night including both learning
activities and star watching on either the evening of April 16 or 17, 2015.
We are looking for some expert astronomers to guide our watching and provide
telescopes. Please let me know if this is something your group can help
with. We are able to make a donation in exchange for services. Thank you in
advance.

[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

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I think Evan and I can attend this one.  it is on our calendar.
  
 -Robynn andracsek

Extra points for anyone who logs a visual observation of the asteroid's moon
tonight. =]

 

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=4459 

Sure, great school event.

Sent via Gmail from David Young

On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 12:38 PM, Joseph Wright jos.wright@... [ASKC]
<ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

>
>
> So, I just checked my and this request came into my old, not used, not
> published Roadrunner email address.
> What say ye, any of you game for this?  I haven't replied.
> Joe
>
>
>
> WE NEED YOU… TO MAKE THIS EVENING AWESOME!!
> Science Night 2015
> Theme: We are going…. GREEN… and everything SCIENCE!!
> When and Where:  *April 22nd @ Santa Fe Trail Middle School 1100 N.
> Ridgeview Rd. Olathe, Kansas 66061*
> Time: *6:00 until 8:00 p.m. **(Set up 5...Doors open 6-8 p.m.)*
> *Admission is FREE to all Olathe Families!*
> *If you have any questions please contact Amy Hillman @ Santa Fe
> (913)780-7290 <%28913%29780-7290> or (913) 544-4732 <%28913%29%20544-4732>!
> *
> *ahillmansf@olatheschools.org
> <http://webmail.kc.rr.com/do/mail/message/mailto?to=ahillmansf%40olatheschools.org>*
> Please let me know if we can count on you!!!!! J
>
>
> _______________________________________________________________________________
>
>
> Joseph S. Wright
>
> Cell Phone:  (913) 208-0924
>
> Operations Manager, Warkoczewski Public Observatory (WPO)
>   University of Missouri-Kansas City
>
> Vice-President, Astronomical Society of Kansas City
> Solar System Ambassador, NASA/JPL Volunteer Program
> Girl Scouts of NE Kansas-NW Missouri  Aerospace/Astronomy/Weather S.T.E.M.
> Specialist
>
>  
>

So are we going to do the Epci event? ? ?

Sent via Gmail from David Young

On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 3:37 PM, 'Carroll Iorg' carroll.iorg@...
[ASKC] <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

>
>
> This message came through the League webpage a day or two ago, if anyone
> is able to do this one.
>
>
>
> Thanks!
>
>
>
> *Carroll Iorg*
>
> *Media Officer and Convention Coordinator*
>
> *Astronomical League*
>
> *9201 Ward Parkway, Suite 100*
>
> *Kansas City MO  64114*
>
> *816 333 7759 <816%20333%207759>*
>
> *carroll.iorg@gmail.com <carroll.iorg@...>*
>
> *www.astroleague.org <http://www.astroleague.org>*
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> --- Message from Kim-Marie Graham kim-marie@... ---
>
> Subject: School Events?
>
> Our school PTA is hoping to host an astronomy night including both learning
> activities and star watching on either the evening of April 16 or 17, 2015.
> We are looking for some expert astronomers to guide our watching and
> provide
> telescopes.  Please let me know if this is something your group can help
> with. We are able to make a donation in exchange for services. Thank you in
> advance.
>
>
>
>
>
>  
>

Amazing video of the radar image.  I am assuming the moonlet was just discovered?   

 Gene Williams

Twyla and I are headed down to Powell shortly. I'll be looking for the moonlet.

Does someone have handy the league requirements if any for asteroid observation?

Jason

Sent from my mobile

> On Jan 26, 2015, at 12:03, "'David Hudgins' dhudgins@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> Absolutely! If clear, I’ll be at Powell with my trusty 6” dob and necessary charts. 
>  
> Probably not until 9PM however.  : ^ )
>  
> Dave Hudgins
> 
> 
> 

From the program listing:

 

Your observations should be recorded in a notebook or on a computer and should include: the location, date and time of the observation, the number and name of the asteroid, and the instrument used. 

 

If working visually, each observation should include a sketch showing the position of the asteroid in relation to the nearby stars. Each asteroid must be observed at least twice in different positions, and at the time of the second observation you must verify that the object is no longer in the position where it was observed the first time. 

 

If using CCD imaging, it is sufficient to either print the two positions or measure them and simply report the positions of the asteroid according to standard astrometric procedures.

 

From: ASKC@yahoogroups.com [mailto:ASKC@yahoogroups.com] 
Sent: Monday, January 26, 2015 7:21 PM
To: ASKC@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [ASKC] Re: Asteroid at Powell tonight

 






Twyla and I are headed down to Powell shortly. I'll be looking for the moonlet.

 

Does someone have handy the league requirements if any for asteroid observation?

 

Jason

Sent from my mobile


On Jan 26, 2015, at 12:03, "'David Hudgins' dhudgins@... <mailto:dhudgins@...>  [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com <mailto:ASKC@yahoogroups.com> > wrote:

Absolutely! If clear, I’ll be at Powell with my trusty 6” dob and necessary charts.  

 

Probably not until 9PM however.  : ^ )

 

Dave Hudgins










[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

This little rock proved very difficult to track down. Success at 2240 with
my 4.5" reflector. Charts weren't accurate.

Moving rather briskly across the field.

Mike

On Monday, January 26, 2015, Dave Stewart scidav87@... [ASKC] <
ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

> Skies keep keeping worse and worse in smithville mo
>
> *Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE DROID*
> On Jan 26, 2015 7:26 PM, "'Mike Stewart' mike.n0tu@...
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','mike.n0tu@...');> [ASKC]" <
> ASKC@yahoogroups.com
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','ASKC@yahoogroups.com');>> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> From the program listing:
>
> Your observations should be recorded in a notebook or on a computer and
> should include: the location, date and time of the observation, the number
> and name of the asteroid, and the instrument used.
>
> If working visually, each observation should include a sketch showing the
> position of the asteroid in relation to the nearby stars. Each asteroid
> must be observed at least twice in different positions, and at the time of
> the second observation you must verify that the object is no longer in the
> position where it was observed the first time.
>
> If using CCD imaging, it is sufficient to either print the two positions
> or measure them and simply report the positions of the asteroid according
> to standard astrometric procedures.
>
> From: ASKC@yahoogroups.com
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','ASKC@yahoogroups.com');> [mailto:
> ASKC@yahoogroups.com
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','ASKC@yahoogroups.com');>]
> Sent: Monday, January 26, 2015 7:21 PM
> To: ASKC@yahoogroups.com
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','ASKC@yahoogroups.com');>
> Subject: Re: [ASKC] Re: Asteroid at Powell tonight
>
> Twyla and I are headed down to Powell shortly. I'll be looking for the
> moonlet.
>
> Does someone have handy the league requirements if any for asteroid
> observation?
>
> Jason
>
> Sent from my mobile
>
> On Jan 26, 2015, at 12:03, "'David Hudgins' dhudgins@...
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','dhudgins@...');> <mailto:
> dhudgins@... <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','dhudgins@...');>>
> [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','ASKC@yahoogroups.com');> <mailto:
> ASKC@yahoogroups.com
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','ASKC@yahoogroups.com');>> > wrote:
>
> Absolutely! If clear, I’ll be at Powell with my trusty 6” dob and
> necessary charts.
>
> Probably not until 9PM however. : ^ )
>
> Dave Hudgins
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
>
>
> 
>
>

How accurate do you think Stellarium was?  I thought I saw it at 10:46 in a
line up to the right from delta cancer up to this little 8.5 mag trapezoid
of stars I was using as my marker.  But it was just a glimpse, how much was
wishful thinking. I have another marker for 11:05 (from Stellarium,so we
will see).  I am doing this with the higher power in the Apogee 88s, from
my back porch.

Denise

On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 10:45 PM, Mike Stewart mike.n0tu@... [ASKC] <
ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

>
>
> This little rock proved very difficult to track down. Success at 2240 with
> my 4.5" reflector. Charts weren't accurate.
>
> Moving rather briskly across the field.
>
> Mike
>
> On Monday, January 26, 2015, Dave Stewart scidav87@... [ASKC] <
> ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
>
>> Skies keep keeping worse and worse in smithville mo
>>
>> *Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE DROID*
>> On Jan 26, 2015 7:26 PM, "'Mike Stewart' mike.n0tu@... [ASKC]" <
>> ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> From the program listing:
>>
>> Your observations should be recorded in a notebook or on a computer and
>> should include: the location, date and time of the observation, the number
>> and name of the asteroid, and the instrument used.
>>
>> If working visually, each observation should include a sketch showing the
>> position of the asteroid in relation to the nearby stars. Each asteroid
>> must be observed at least twice in different positions, and at the time of
>> the second observation you must verify that the object is no longer in the
>> position where it was observed the first time.
>>
>> If using CCD imaging, it is sufficient to either print the two positions
>> or measure them and simply report the positions of the asteroid according
>> to standard astrometric procedures.
>>
>> From: ASKC@yahoogroups.com [mailto:ASKC@yahoogroups.com]
>> Sent: Monday, January 26, 2015 7:21 PM
>> To: ASKC@yahoogroups.com
>> Subject: Re: [ASKC] Re: Asteroid at Powell tonight
>>
>> Twyla and I are headed down to Powell shortly. I'll be looking for the
>> moonlet.
>>
>> Does someone have handy the league requirements if any for asteroid
>> observation?
>>
>> Jason
>>
>> Sent from my mobile
>>
>> On Jan 26, 2015, at 12:03, "'David Hudgins' dhudgins@... <mailto:
>> dhudgins@...> [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com <mailto:
>> ASKC@yahoogroups.com> > wrote:
>>
>> Absolutely! If clear, I’ll be at Powell with my trusty 6” dob and
>> necessary charts.
>>
>> Probably not until 9PM however. : ^ )
>>
>> Dave Hudgins
>>
>> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>>
>>
>>
>>    
>

Leif was able to find it and he's tracking it right now. (Took a lot of patience.) A pretty cool sight! 

Thanks,
Cindy Bahl

On Jan 26, 2015, at 10:56 PM, Denise Moser dennyzen@... [ASKC] <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

How accurate do you think Stellarium was?  I thought I saw it at 10:46 in a line up to the right from delta cancer up to this little 8.5 mag trapezoid of stars I was using as my marker.  But it was just a glimpse, how much was wishful thinking. I have another marker for 11:05 (from Stellarium,so we will see).  I am doing this with the higher power in the Apogee 88s, from my back porch.  

Denise

> On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 10:45 PM, Mike Stewart mike.n0tu@... [ASKC] <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
>  
> This little rock proved very difficult to track down. Success at 2240 with my 4.5" reflector. Charts weren't accurate. 
> 
> 
> Moving rather briskly across the field. 
> 
> Mike
> 
>> On Monday, January 26, 2015, Dave Stewart scidav87@aol.com [ASKC] <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
>> Skies keep keeping worse and worse in smithville mo
>> 
>> Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE DROID
>> On Jan 26, 2015 7:26 PM, "'Mike Stewart' mike.n0tu@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>  
>> From the program listing:
>> 
>> Your observations should be recorded in a notebook or on a computer and should include: the location, date and time of the observation, the number and name of the asteroid, and the instrument used. 
>> 
>> If working visually, each observation should include a sketch showing the position of the asteroid in relation to the nearby stars. Each asteroid must be observed at least twice in different positions, and at the time of the second observation you must verify that the object is no longer in the position where it was observed the first time. 
>> 
>> If using CCD imaging, it is sufficient to either print the two positions or measure them and simply report the positions of the asteroid according to standard astrometric procedures.
>> 
>> From: ASKC@yahoogroups.com [mailto:ASKC@yahoogroups.com] 
>> Sent: Monday, January 26, 2015 7:21 PM
>> To: ASKC@yahoogroups.com
>> Subject: Re: [ASKC] Re: Asteroid at Powell tonight
>> 
>> Twyla and I are headed down to Powell shortly. I'll be looking for the moonlet.
>> 
>> Does someone have handy the league requirements if any for asteroid observation?
>> 
>> Jason
>> 
>> Sent from my mobile
>> 
>> On Jan 26, 2015, at 12:03, "'David Hudgins' dhudgins@... <mailto:dhudgins@...> [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com <mailto:ASKC@yahoogroups.com> > wrote:
>> 
>> Absolutely! If clear, I’ll be at Powell with my trusty 6” dob and necessary charts. 
>> 
>> Probably not until 9PM however. : ^ )
>> 
>> Dave Hudgins
>> 
>> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Denise,

 

Sounds like you caught it. I used that trapezoid, too. At 2240, it passed the extended line using the two southernmost (I think, I’m tired) stars in the trapezoid. By 2242, it was midway between the north and south line. By 2246, it had passed the northern line. 

 

It’s not very bright…maybe 9.5 or 10 magnitude. I was thinking we’d see something a bit brighter. The motion was detectable, but it only appeared to move once it was picked up in the FOV. 

 

Neither of the three charts I used had an accurate track or timing marks. It took a loooong time to detect the object. I got very, very lucky.

 

Time to call it an evening. Good luck all.

 

Mike

 

From: ASKC@yahoogroups.com [mailto:ASKC@yahoogroups.com] 
Sent: Monday, January 26, 2015 10:56 PM
To: ASKC@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [ASKC] Re: Asteroid at Powell tonight

 






How accurate do you think Stellarium was?  I thought I saw it at 10:46 in a line up to the right from delta cancer up to this little 8.5 mag trapezoid of stars I was using as my marker.  But it was just a glimpse, how much was wishful thinking. I have another marker for 11:05 (from Stellarium,so we will see).  I am doing this with the higher power in the Apogee 88s, from my back porch.  

 

Denise

 

On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 10:45 PM, Mike Stewart mike.n0tu@... <mailto:mike.n0tu@...>  [ASKC] <ASKC@yahoogroups.com <mailto:ASKC@yahoogroups.com> > wrote:

  

This little rock proved very difficult to track down. Success at 2240 with my 4.5" reflector. Charts weren't accurate. 

 

Moving rather briskly across the field. 

 

Mike

On Monday, January 26, 2015, Dave Stewart scidav87@... <mailto:scidav87@aol.com>  [ASKC] <ASKC@yahoogroups.com <mailto:ASKC@yahoogroups.com> > wrote:

Skies keep keeping worse and worse in smithville mo 

 

Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE DROID

On Jan 26, 2015 7:26 PM, "'Mike Stewart' mike.n0tu@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:



  

From the program listing:

Your observations should be recorded in a notebook or on a computer and should include: the location, date and time of the observation, the number and name of the asteroid, and the instrument used. 

If working visually, each observation should include a sketch showing the position of the asteroid in relation to the nearby stars. Each asteroid must be observed at least twice in different positions, and at the time of the second observation you must verify that the object is no longer in the position where it was observed the first time. 

If using CCD imaging, it is sufficient to either print the two positions or measure them and simply report the positions of the asteroid according to standard astrometric procedures.

From: ASKC@yahoogroups.com [mailto:ASKC@yahoogroups.com] 
Sent: Monday, January 26, 2015 7:21 PM
To: ASKC@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [ASKC] Re: Asteroid at Powell tonight

Twyla and I are headed down to Powell shortly. I'll be looking for the moonlet.

Does someone have handy the league requirements if any for asteroid observation?

Jason

Sent from my mobile

On Jan 26, 2015, at 12:03, "'David Hudgins' dhudgins@... <mailto:dhudgins@...> [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com <mailto:ASKC@yahoogroups.com> > wrote:

Absolutely! If clear, I’ll be at Powell with my trusty 6” dob and necessary charts. 

Probably not until 9PM however. : ^ )

Dave Hudgins

[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

 

 










[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Wow, a great night of NEO searching at Powell tonight!

I found the asteroid at 10:15PM and watched it slide just below the Beehive until almost midnight. All thru my 6” f/5 Orion Starblast dob and 22mm TV Panoptic.  I spent about an hour first identifying a squiggly group of 9 mag stars early in the evening near Delta, then just  waited for the predicted 10:15 arrival ...and there it was! Holy cow - I was a bit surprised myself, heh-heh!  : ^ )

For 90 minutes about 15 folks watched with me thru the 6” as the asteroid zipped by the star cluster. The many stars near the Beeehive made it pretty easy to detect motion in  just 30 seconds or so. It passed two stars very closely during that time, and we could see the motion in just 5 seconds or so. Great fun, and an amazing sight! Also I enjoyed meeting some new members of the club and several guests – all very nice folks!

Dave Hudgins

We never zeroed in on it with the 30. After an hour or so of searching Dennis Budd said he saw it for a couple of seconds but lost it when he tried to follow it. We never found it again. Field of view just too small.

Lovejoy was nice and bright and Jupiter was nice and crisp.

Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE DROID

"'David Hudgins' dhudgins@kc.rr.com [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

>  
>
>Wow, a great night of NEO searching at Powell tonight!
>
> 
>
>I found the asteroid at 10:15PM and watched it slide just below the Beehive until almost midnight. All thru my 6” f/5 Orion Starblast dob and 22mm TV Panoptic.  I spent about an hour first identifying a squiggly group of 9 mag stars early in the evening near Delta, then just  waited for the predicted 10:15 arrival ...and there it was! Holy cow - I was a bit surprised myself, heh-heh!  : ^ )
>
> 
>
>For 90 minutes about 15 folks watched with me thru the 6” as the asteroid zipped by the star cluster. The many stars near the Beeehive made it pretty easy to detect motion in  just 30 seconds or so. It passed two stars very closely during that time, and we could see the motion in just 5 seconds or so. Great fun, and an amazing sight! Also I enjoyed meeting some new members of the club and several guests – all very nice folks!
>
> 
>
>Dave Hudgins
>
>
>
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Actually I saw it ar the 30" for around three minutes...I detected 
motion in about 15 seconds, but after 3 minutes it was unmistakeable. 
Jason came into the dome and replaced me at the 30, but couldn't see 
it following my description.  When I went back to the eyepiece a 
couple of minutes later it became obvious why...the object had moved 
all the way to the left edge of the field of view and wasn't where I 
was telling him to look.

It was about to exit the field of view, so I grabbed the hand 
controller to center it.  Unfortunately, the hand controller was on 
fast slew without my knowing it.  So i slewed it well out of the field 
of view and never found it again.  Rats!!!!!

I would second the suspicion that the charts and coordinates were of 
limited accuracy.  We had slewed the 30" to the "exact" 10 o'clock 
coordinates.  Shortly after 10 I spotted the moving star at the bottom 
edge of the field, moving to the left.  Once I was sure of its 
movement, I centered it more in the field of view.  if the coordinates 
were truly accurate, it should have been moving through the center of 
the field of view, not grazing the edge.

As David said, the field of view in the 30 was just too small.  I 
couldn't use the Beehive to find the asteroid when not all of the 
Beehive itself fit in the field of view.  In retrospect, also I'm not 
sure how good the coordinates we had were.

Dennis

On Tue, 27 Jan 2015, David Young youngmdavid@... [ASKC] wrote:

>  
> 
> We never zeroed in on it with the 30. After an hour or so of searching
> Dennis Budd said he saw it for a couple of seconds but lost it when he tried
> to follow it. We never found it again. Field of view just too small.
> 
> Lovejoy was nice and bright and Jupiter was nice and crisp.
> 
> Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE DROID
> 
> 
> "'David Hudgins' dhudgins@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
> 
>  
> 
> Wow, a great night of NEO searching at Powell tonight!
>  
> I found the asteroid at 10:15PM and watched it slide just below the Beehive
> until almost midnight. All thru my 6” f/5 Orion Starblast dob and 22mm TV
> Panoptic.  I spent about an hour first identifying a squiggly group of 9 mag
> stars early in the evening near Delta, then just  waited for the predicted
> 10:15 arrival ...and there it was! Holy cow - I was a bit surprised myself,
> heh-heh!  : ^ )
>  
> For 90 minutes about 15 folks watched with me thru the 6” as the asteroid
> zipped by the star cluster. The many stars near the Beeehive made it pretty
> easy to detect motion in  just 30 seconds or so. It passed two stars very
> closely during that time, and we could see the motion in just 5 seconds or
> so. Great fun, and an amazing sight! Also I enjoyed meeting some new members
> of the club and several guests – all very nice folks!
>  
> Dave Hudgins
> 
> 
>

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Don't forget to keep an accounting of the time you have donated doing outreach events to us towards the AL's Outreach Award.  FYI. Joe _______________________________________________________________________________

Joseph S. Wright

Cell Phone:  (913) 208-0924

Operations Manager, Warkoczewski Public Observatory (WPO)  
  University of Missouri-Kansas City

Vice-President, Astronomical Society of Kansas City
Solar System Ambassador, NASA/JPL Volunteer Program
Girl Scouts of NE Kansas-NW Missouri  Aerospace/Astronomy/Weather S.T.E.M. Specialist

that would be "use" towards.  Too much backspacing, dangit. _______________________________________________________________________________

Joseph S. Wright

Cell Phone:  (913) 208-0924

Operations Manager, Warkoczewski Public Observatory (WPO)  
  University of Missouri-Kansas City

Vice-President, Astronomical Society of Kansas City
Solar System Ambassador, NASA/JPL Volunteer Program
Girl Scouts of NE Kansas-NW Missouri  Aerospace/Astronomy/Weather S.T.E.M. Specialist

      From: "Joseph Wright jos.wright@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com>
 To: ASKC On Yahoogroups <askc@yahoogroups.com> 
 Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2015 7:46 AM
 Subject: [ASKC] School Science Nights and Outreach Events
   
    Don't forget to keep an accounting of the time you have donated doing outreach events to us towards the AL's Outreach Award.  FYI. Joe _______________________________________________________________________________

Joseph S. Wright

Cell Phone:  (913) 208-0924

Operations Manager, Warkoczewski Public Observatory (WPO)  
  University of Missouri-Kansas City

Vice-President, Astronomical Society of Kansas City
Solar System Ambassador, NASA/JPL Volunteer Program
Girl Scouts of NE Kansas-NW Missouri  Aerospace/Astronomy/Weather S.T.E.M. Specialist
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Sent via Gmail from David Young

On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 7:46 AM, Joseph Wright jos.wright@... [ASKC] <
ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

>
>
> Don't forget to keep an accounting of the time you have donated doing
> outreach events to us towards the AL's Outreach Award.
>
>
> FYI.
>
> Joe
>
> _______________________________________________________________________________
>
>
> Joseph S. Wright
>
> Cell Phone:  (913) 208-0924
>
> Operations Manager, Warkoczewski Public Observatory (WPO)
>   University of Missouri-Kansas City
>
> Vice-President, Astronomical Society of Kansas City
> Solar System Ambassador, NASA/JPL Volunteer Program
> Girl Scouts of NE Kansas-NW Missouri  Aerospace/Astronomy/Weather S.T.E.M.
> Specialist
>
>  
>

One last time since no one has committed to this event.

Anyone interested in going to this event on Friday April 17

I need to answer them soon.


Sent via Gmail from David Young

You do have to turn in your report to Scott.  Don't wait six years or more.   _______________________________________________________________________________

Joseph S. Wright

Cell Phone:  (913) 208-0924

Operations Manager, Warkoczewski Public Observatory (WPO)  
  University of Missouri-Kansas City

Vice-President, Astronomical Society of Kansas City
Solar System Ambassador, NASA/JPL Volunteer Program
Girl Scouts of NE Kansas-NW Missouri  Aerospace/Astronomy/Weather S.T.E.M. Specialist

      From: "David Young youngmdavid@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com>
 To: "ASKC@yahoogroups.com" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> 
 Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2015 10:58 AM
 Subject: Re: [ASKC] School Science Nights and Outreach Events
   
    And you can deduct mileage on your tax returns.
Sent via Gmail from David Young


On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 7:46 AM, Joseph Wright jos.wright@... [ASKC] <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

     Don't forget to keep an accounting of the time you have donated doing outreach events to us towards the AL's Outreach Award.  FYI. Joe _______________________________________________________________________________

Joseph S. Wright

Cell Phone:  (913) 208-0924

Operations Manager, Warkoczewski Public Observatory (WPO)  
  University of Missouri-Kansas City

Vice-President, Astronomical Society of Kansas City
Solar System Ambassador, NASA/JPL Volunteer Program
Girl Scouts of NE Kansas-NW Missouri  Aerospace/Astronomy/Weather S.T.E.M. Specialist
   

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I also had trouble finding it using the MPCORB near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) data in Stellarium. I eventually swept it up, but it was dumb luck that I found it.

---- "Dennis Budd nitewing@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote: 
> Actually I saw it ar the 30" for around three minutes...I detected 
> motion in about 15 seconds, but after 3 minutes it was unmistakeable. 
> Jason came into the dome and replaced me at the 30, but couldn't see 
> it following my description.  When I went back to the eyepiece a 
> couple of minutes later it became obvious why...the object had moved 
> all the way to the left edge of the field of view and wasn't where I 
> was telling him to look.
> 
> It was about to exit the field of view, so I grabbed the hand 
> controller to center it.  Unfortunately, the hand controller was on 
> fast slew without my knowing it.  So i slewed it well out of the field 
> of view and never found it again.  Rats!!!!!
> 
> I would second the suspicion that the charts and coordinates were of 
> limited accuracy.  We had slewed the 30" to the "exact" 10 o'clock 
> coordinates.  Shortly after 10 I spotted the moving star at the bottom 
> edge of the field, moving to the left.  Once I was sure of its 
> movement, I centered it more in the field of view.  if the coordinates 
> were truly accurate, it should have been moving through the center of 
> the field of view, not grazing the edge.
> 
> As David said, the field of view in the 30 was just too small.  I 
> couldn't use the Beehive to find the asteroid when not all of the 
> Beehive itself fit in the field of view.  In retrospect, also I'm not 
> sure how good the coordinates we had were.
> 
> Dennis
> 
> On Tue, 27 Jan 2015, David Young youngmdavid@... [ASKC] wrote:
> 
> >  
> > 
> > We never zeroed in on it with the 30. After an hour or so of searching
> > Dennis Budd said he saw it for a couple of seconds but lost it when he tried
> > to follow it. We never found it again. Field of view just too small.
> > 
> > Lovejoy was nice and bright and Jupiter was nice and crisp.
> > 
> > Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE DROID
> > 
> > 
> > "'David Hudgins' dhudgins@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > Wow, a great night of NEO searching at Powell tonight!
> >  
> > I found the asteroid at 10:15PM and watched it slide just below the Beehive
> > until almost midnight. All thru my 6” f/5 Orion Starblast dob and 22mm TV
> > Panoptic.  I spent about an hour first identifying a squiggly group of 9 mag
> > stars early in the evening near Delta, then just  waited for the predicted
> > 10:15 arrival ...and there it was! Holy cow - I was a bit surprised myself,
> > heh-heh!  : ^ )
> >  
> > For 90 minutes about 15 folks watched with me thru the 6” as the asteroid
> > zipped by the star cluster. The many stars near the Beeehive made it pretty
> > easy to detect motion in  just 30 seconds or so. It passed two stars very
> > closely during that time, and we could see the motion in just 5 seconds or
> > so. Great fun, and an amazing sight! Also I enjoyed meeting some new members
> > of the club and several guests – all very nice folks!
> >  
> > Dave Hudgins
> > 
> > 
> >
> 
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
> 

Just curious on the time of activity that can be logged on outreach programs. I have over 500 hours in outreach recorded but not logged to AL awards while here in AR. They go back 5 years.  Do those events still count? 

 Stuart

On Jan. 9th I wrote:   "Put me in coach.  This school sounds interesting.  I took a look at their web site. Joe"   At least this is some what close to home.  May stop at Rancho Grande' after the gig.  So, yes, I will do it.Joe_______________________________________________________________________________ 

Joseph S. Wright 

Cell Phone:  (913) 208-0924 

Operations Manager, Warkoczewski Observatory-UMKC 

Vice-President, Astronomical Society of Kansas City 
Solar System Ambassador, NASA/JPL Volunteer Program 
Girl Scouts of NE Kansas-NW Missouri  Aerospace/Astronomy/Weather S.T.E.M. Specialist
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To: "ASKC@yahoogroups.com" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> 
Sent: Thursday, January 8, 2015 6:05 PM
Subject: [ASKC] school night
 
  I have a request for a school event at EPic Elementary in Liberty, MO for April 17 or 18. That's a new moon on Saturday April 18.
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Dave,
Thank you for showing people at Powell!! People said Thank You to ASKC for last night on both our Facebook page and on our Instagram account. On Facebook they said 'Thank you' to you personally, mentioning your name!!!

We have had a great response on Facebook overall and we just keep getting more followers each week. I posted about the asteroid and that post has been viewed by over 2,300 people so far! That is just one of our posts!

Thanks,
Cindy Bahl

On Jan 27, 2015, at 1:10 AM, 'David Hudgins' dhudgins@....com [ASKC] <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

Wow, a great night of NEO searching at Powell tonight!
 
I found the asteroid at 10:15PM and watched it slide just below the Beehive until almost midnight. All thru my 6” f/5 Orion Starblast dob and 22mm TV Panoptic.  I spent about an hour first identifying a squiggly group of 9 mag stars early in the evening near Delta, then just  waited for the predicted 10:15 arrival ...and there it was! Holy cow - I was a bit surprised myself, heh-heh!  : ^ )
 
For 90 minutes about 15 folks watched with me thru the 6” as the asteroid zipped by the star cluster. The many stars near the Beeehive made it pretty easy to detect motion in  just 30 seconds or so. It passed two stars very closely during that time, and we could see the motion in just 5 seconds or so. Great fun, and an amazing sight! Also I enjoyed meeting some new members of the club and several guests – all very nice folks!
 
Dave Hudgins

I'm trying to put together an astronomically inspired playlist in my iTunes and thought it might make for an interesting/different conversation on this list-serv.
I already have the following in my iTunes:
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This makes for a pretty short playlist so far... any suggestions to lengthen and round-out an astro-inspired mp3 playlis? Kind regards,Matthew Valdivia, Principal
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Found a dark gray/black hooded jacket at Powell. Now you know where you left it.

Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE DROID

I can go, but not bah mah lonesome self.

I just got a request for us to go to Brookwood Elementary again this year
on May 7.  Drop me a note if you can attend. This will be in full daylight
so it will be solar scopes outside or maybe find Jupiter or Venus in full
sunlight.

Sent via Gmail from David Young

I don't think there's a time limit but Scott Kranz would know for sure. I
figure Joe has a few thousand hours but I don't think he's ever turned
anything in:-)

Sent via Gmail from David Young

On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 11:19 AM, stuartriley84@... [ASKC] <
ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

>
>
> Just curious on the time of activity that can be logged on outreach
> programs. I have over 500 hours in outreach recorded but not logged to AL
> awards while here in AR. They go back 5 years.  Do those events still count?
>
> Stuart
>
>  
>

Rocket Man by Elton John

Flash Gordon by Queen

The Planets by Gustav Holst (classical)

The soundtrack of 2001: a Space Odyssey

Hope this helps.

Melinda

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I'm not sure how many of you tried to see the asteroid this past Monday night. To me it was a BIG disappointment. I went to Hillsdale Lake and could not see it with binoculars. I tried to photograph it and thought I had failed until I talked with Dave Hudgins. After he described it I blew up my images about 10 times and then heavily cropped my originals. I also had to use a bunch of Photoshop tricks to try to better show the asteroid. I have put the images together in a video in a folder called "Asteroid 2004 BL86 in the files section. I will also supply a link below. I don't know how well this will play but if it looks OK you will see how faint the asteroid was. The asteroid is travelling through and below the Beehive Cluster. No wonder few people could see it. Most of the stars are brighter. This was supposedly a magnitude 9. I'm not sure about that. 

 

 Doug Spalding
 

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Doug: Nice video. I see nothing disappointing about the video you've created. Pretty cool. Running it full screen on my 23" monitor looks great and it's easy to see it flying by the Beehive. I love the way the stars twinkle in the movie. How about some technical details? Tom J Martinez
http://tomjmartinez.blogspot.com/ 

     On Wednesday, January 28, 2015 12:59 AM, "boilerhawk@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
   

     I'm not sure how many of you tried to see the asteroid this past Monday night. To me it was a BIG disappointment. I went to Hillsdale Lake and could not see it with binoculars. I tried to photograph it and thought I had failed until I talked with Dave Hudgins. After he described it I blew up my images about 10 times and then heavily cropped my originals. I also had to use a bunch of Photoshop tricks to try to better show the asteroid. I have put the images together in a video in a folder called "Asteroid 2004 BL86 in the files section. I will also supply a link below. I don't know how well this will play but if it looks OK you will see how faint the asteroid was. The asteroid is travelling through and below the Beehive Cluster. No wonder few people could see it. Most of the stars are brighter. This was supposedly a magnitude 9. I'm not sure about that. 

Doug Spalding
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Supermassive black hole by musemuse

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space-themed_music


http://m.space.com/11037-space-music-playlist-astronauts-wakeup.html

Theme from movie '2001'

Evan and I can likely go. If not then we can lend the binoculars and scope we have that have solar shields

What time and what's the address?

-Robynn Andracsek

I agree with Tom. Not disappointing at all, quite the opposite!
Thanks for sharing. Kind regards,Matthew Valdivia, Principal
BRANDS de LUXE, l.l.c.
Manufacturers Representatives
Cellular (816)273-3665
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Many thanks to the following people: Rita Wright and Tony Kostusik were kept busy at the tables with a good variety of meteorites and other displays, including the new color light mixer.   John Fitzgerald, Joe Alburty, Richard Schoenburger and Bob Sandy hand lengthy lines of eager kids and parents at the scopes.  Thanks also to Alan Leman for organizing volunteers and to David Neuenschwander and son for bringing the StarLab.  We did abandon the setting up the StarLab in lieu of getting people to the scopes on such a nice night. It is estimated 325 people attended and visited the table and scopes. Thanks everyone! Joe  _______________________________________________________________________________

Joseph S. Wright

Cell Phone:  (913) 208-0924

Operations Manager, Warkoczewski Public Observatory (WPO)  
  University of Missouri-Kansas City

Vice-President, Astronomical Society of Kansas City
Solar System Ambassador, NASA/JPL Volunteer Program
Girl Scouts of NE Kansas-NW Missouri  Aerospace/Astronomy/Weather S.T.E.M. Specialist

Doug,

 I love it. I wasn't sure I actually saw the asteroid and was pretty
doubtful until I saw your video.  What is the actual time for the first
frame/image in your video, about 10:40ish, but what does your image show,
more exactly?

This is the ONLY video (or still for that matter) that I have found that
really shows the asteroid as it went by the Beehive that really gives a
good perspective of where it was and how it looked.   Most are shorter and
cropped (more like I saw it in the big binoculars) so much you can't be
sure what it is passing. In yours, I can.

 The few online that that were taken at around the time we were looking and
other comments suggest that the path and/or time was not as predicted in
the published finder charts.  I think that was much more an issue of how
much detail a chart had (very little in comparison).  Your video gives us
both the detail and the broad view at the same time.

For me, your video confirms I saw it. though fleetingly, more than once.
And that the actual track predicted by Stellarium was good. If you could
give me the actual start time of the video, it would nail it for me that I
really saw this asteroid.

Denise

On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 2:06 AM, Tom Martinez zenitrammot@... [ASKC] <
ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

>
>
> Doug: Nice video. I see nothing disappointing about the video you've
> created. Pretty cool. Running it full screen on my 23" monitor looks great
> and it's easy to see it flying by the Beehive. I love the way the stars
> twinkle in the movie. How about some technical details?
>
> Tom J Martinez
> http://tomjmartinez.blogspot.com/
>
>
>   On Wednesday, January 28, 2015 12:59 AM, "boilerhawk@... [ASKC]" <
> ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
>
>
>
>  I'm not sure how many of you tried to see the asteroid this past Monday
> night. To me it was a BIG disappointment. I went to Hillsdale Lake and
> could not see it with binoculars. I tried to photograph it and thought I
> had failed until I talked with Dave Hudgins. After he described it I blew
> up my images about 10 times and then heavily cropped my originals. I also
> had to use a bunch of Photoshop tricks to try to better show the asteroid.
> I have put the images together in a video in a folder called "Asteroid 2004
> BL86 in the files section. I will also supply a link below. I don't know
> how well this will play but if it looks OK you will see how faint the
> asteroid was. The asteroid is travelling through and below the Beehive
> Cluster. No wonder few people could see it. Most of the stars are brighter.
> This was supposedly a magnitude 9. I'm not sure about that.
>
> Doug Spalding
>
> Link to video:
> *This is the unofficial list of the ASKC <http://tinyurl.com/jvm4tgd>*
>     [image: image] <http://tinyurl.com/jvm4tgd>
>     This is the unofficial list of the ASKC <http://tinyurl.com/jvm4tgd>
> This is the unofficial Yahoo group of the Astronomical Society of Kansas
> City.
>      View on tinyurl.com  <http://tinyurl.com/jvm4tgd>
>   Preview by Yahoo
>
>
>
>    
>

Tom, 

 Thanks for your comments.I almost deleted my pictures because I couldn't see any movement. After talking with Dave Hudgins and figuring the asteroid had to be in there somewhere and watching another video of the asteroid on YouTube, I finally found it. Here are the details of the video:
 - Canon T2i on an IOptron Pro EQ mount, not guided.
 - 280 images, 10 sec each, ISO 3200
 - Canon 75mm-300mm lens set at 75mm
 - Processing: curves, levels, Noise Ninja twice, heavy cropping, converted to movie with Quick Time Pro.
 

 If I could do it again, I would have taken 20 sec, guided images at 300mm. I was afraid to use 300mm because I wasn't sure that I could trust the sky charts on the asteroid's path so I went with a wide field of view.
 

 Doug
 

---In ASKC@yahoogroups.com, <zenitrammot@...> wrote :

 Doug: Nice video. I see nothing disappointing about the video you've created. Pretty cool. Running it full screen on my 23" monitor looks great and it's easy to see it flying by the Beehive. I love the way the stars twinkle in the movie. How about some technical details?
 
  
 Tom J Martinez 
http://tomjmartinez.blogspot.com/

 


 On Wednesday, January 28, 2015 12:59 AM, "boilerhawk@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
 
 

   
 I'm not sure how many of you tried to see the asteroid this past Monday night. To me it was a BIG disappointment. I went to Hillsdale Lake and could not see it with binoculars. I tried to photograph it and thought I had failed until I talked with Dave Hudgins. After he described it I blew up my images about 10 times and then heavily cropped my originals. I also had to use a bunch of Photoshop tricks to try to better show the asteroid. I have put the images together in a video in a folder called "Asteroid 2004 BL86 in the files section. I will also supply a link below. I don't know how well this will play but if it looks OK you will see how faint the asteroid was. The asteroid is travelling through and below the Beehive Cluster. No wonder few people could see it. Most of the stars are brighter. This was supposedly a magnitude 9. I'm not sure about that. 

 

 Doug Spalding
 

 Link to video:
 This is the unofficial list of the ASKC http://tinyurl.com/jvm4tgd

 
 
 http://tinyurl.com/jvm4tgd
 
 This is the unofficial list of the ASKC http://tinyurl.com/jvm4tgd This is the unofficial Yahoo group of the Astronomical Society of Kansas City.


 
 View on tinyurl.com http://tinyurl.com/jvm4tgd
 Preview by Yahoo 
 

 


 


 

Denise, 

 The first image was at about 10:30 and the last was at 11:50. I would have gone longer but since I couldn't detect any asteroid movement watching my computer screen, I figured I had somehow missed the it and I packed up for the night.
 

 Now I know that the Sky and Telescope chart was very accurate (times and position). Had I trusted the chart, I would have zoomed in more on the Beehive for the images. Still, I'm really glad I did capture the asteroid.
 

 Doug S.
 

---In ASKC@yahoogroups.com, <dennyzen@...> wrote :

 Doug,  

  I love it. I wasn't sure I actually saw the asteroid and was pretty doubtful until I saw your video.  What is the actual time for the first frame/image in your video, about 10:40ish, but what does your image show, more exactly?
 

 This is the ONLY video (or still for that matter) that I have found that really shows the asteroid as it went by the Beehive that really gives a good perspective of where it was and how it looked.   Most are shorter and cropped (more like I saw it in the big binoculars) so much you can't be sure what it is passing. In yours, I can.
 

  The few online that that were taken at around the time we were looking and other comments suggest that the path and/or time was not as predicted in the published finder charts.  I think that was much more an issue of how much detail a chart had (very little in comparison).  Your video gives us both the detail and the broad view at the same time. 
 

 For me, your video confirms I saw it. though fleetingly, more than once.  And that the actual track predicted by Stellarium was good. If you could give me the actual start time of the video, it would nail it for me that I really saw this asteroid.
 

 Denise

 
 On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 2:06 AM, Tom Martinez zenitrammot@... mailto:zenitrammot@... [ASKC] <ASKC@yahoogroups.com mailto:ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
   
 Doug: Nice video. I see nothing disappointing about the video you've created. Pretty cool. Running it full screen on my 23" monitor looks great and it's easy to see it flying by the Beehive. I love the way the stars twinkle in the movie. How about some technical details?
 
  
 Tom J Martinez 
http://tomjmartinez.blogspot.com/ http://tomjmartinez.blogspot.com/

 


 On Wednesday, January 28, 2015 12:59 AM, "boilerhawk@... mailto:boilerhawk@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com mailto:ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
 
 

   
 I'm not sure how many of you tried to see the asteroid this past Monday night. To me it was a BIG disappointment. I went to Hillsdale Lake and could not see it with binoculars. I tried to photograph it and thought I had failed until I talked with Dave Hudgins. After he described it I blew up my images about 10 times and then heavily cropped my originals. I also had to use a bunch of Photoshop tricks to try to better show the asteroid. I have put the images together in a video in a folder called "Asteroid 2004 BL86 in the files section. I will also supply a link below. I don't know how well this will play but if it looks OK you will see how faint the asteroid was. The asteroid is travelling through and below the Beehive Cluster. No wonder few people could see it. Most of the stars are brighter. This was supposedly a magnitude 9. I'm not sure about that. 

 

 Doug Spalding
 

 Link to video:
 This is the unofficial list of the ASKC http://tinyurl.com/jvm4tgd

 
 
 http://tinyurl.com/jvm4tgd
 
 This is the unofficial list of the ASKC http://tinyurl.com/jvm4tgd This is the unofficial Yahoo group of the Astronomical Society of Kansas City.


 
 View on tinyurl.com http://tinyurl.com/jvm4tgd
 Preview by Yahoo 
 

 


 











 

 

Love it!

Here's an exciting outreach opportunity! 

 On school mornings, I attend the Blue Valley Center for Advanced Professional Studies (CAPS). Their mission is to prepare high school juniors and seniors for professional careers by teaching them hands-on techniques. We've got technology, medicine, engineering (aerospace, etc.), biology, architecture, and robotics courses. Instead of textbooks and tests, students are encouraged to start businesses, pursue patents, and work with professionals in the community. It's really an unbelievable program, and their resources include several 3D printers, a medical simulation dummy, and a whole computer integrated manufacturing and robotics lab.
 

 Taking advantage of these opportunities, I reached out to Dave Lane for help with astrophotography. I'm now interning with him twice a week.
 

 I know that collectively, ASKC has a vast amount of knowledge, and based on CAPS' reaction to Dave's visit, I'm sure they'd love to connect with you. You could speak to classes, mentor students, take people on field trips... Really, CAPS students just want to learn. I can imagine you'd have people lined up to learn how to build telescopes, etc. I would absolutely love to arrange an ASKC tour one morning. Would anyone be interested? I'm in the building from 7:30-10:00 on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays.
 

 Thanks,
 Sophia

I was just looking at the all sky camera and the Last upload was: 2015/01/24 03:26:24 UTC. It says to hit reload to get the latest images but I don't see a reload button anywhere on the page. I must be missing something. Can someone help me out?
 

 Gary
  

Theme song from Star Wars?

 
Jim Carothers


On Wednesday, January 28, 2015 3:50 AM, "randracsek@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
 


  
Supermassive black hole by musemuse

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space-themed_music

http://m.space.com/11037-space-music-playlist-astronauts-wakeup.html

Theme from movie '2001'

I see Jan. 28, 2015 at 9:45AM on the map on the right of the page. Address
I'm using is:
http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/hdfForecast?query=louisburg+kansas

Marcia

On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 9:29 AM, yrag1919@gmail.com [ASKC] <
ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

>
>
> I was just looking at the all sky camera and the Last upload was:
> 2015/01/24 03:26:24 UTC. It says to hit reload to get the latest images but
> I don't see a reload button anywhere on the page. I must be missing
> something. Can someone help me out?
>
>
> Gary
>
>
>
>  
>

Doug, 

Fantastic! Fantastic!

A super video that very accurately portrays how it looked. It was fun to again see this little asteroid cruise very close by some  of the stars I remember with my scope. A couple times I thought it might actually occult a star...but that is very unlikely with an asteroid this small this small. I had to watch this a dozen times!

It’s a beautiful portrayal and you are to be congratulated to catch this with a simple 75mm lens. 

Well done!  : ^ )

Dave Hudgins

I'm probably good with this one. 

 Dave

I just logged onto the weather station and it indicates it's updating every
5 to 7 seconds. I've watched the temperature climbing minute by minute for
a while. It's up two degrees in the past few minutes and now at 68.6
degrees.  Are we BURNING through our limited air time and spending a small
fortune for the extra internet air time? If so we need to stop using this
thing until we can get it to update every half hour or so.

The all sky camera indicates an update January 28 at 11:30:27

Sent via Gmail from David Young

On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 9:29 AM, yrag1919@... [ASKC] <
ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

>
>
> I was just looking at the all sky camera and the Last upload was:
> 2015/01/24 03:26:24 UTC. It says to hit reload to get the latest images but
> I don't see a reload button anywhere on the page. I must be missing
> something. Can someone help me out?
>
>
> Gary
>
>
>
>  
>

Jason says no panic. The weather station couldn't possibly cause an
overage.

my bad

Sent via Gmail from David Young

We'll, what David logged into wa weather underground. The weather updates are very frequent AND VERY VERY SMALL. The image updates occur about every 15 minutes to weather underground, and are about 60k in size. There is no reason to panic.

If you know where your towel is at, you'll be fine.

Jason

Sent from my mobile

> On Jan 28, 2015, at 11:40, "David Young youngmdavid@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> I just logged onto the weather station and it indicates it's updating every 5 to 7 seconds. I've watched the temperature climbing minute by minute for a while. It's up two degrees in the past few minutes and now at 68.6 degrees.  Are we BURNING through our limited air time and spending a small fortune for the extra internet air time? If so we need to stop using this thing until we can get it to update every half hour or so.
> 
> The all sky camera indicates an update January 28 at 11:30:27
> 
> Sent via Gmail from David Young
> 
>> On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 9:29 AM, yrag1919@... [ASKC] <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
>>  
>> I was just looking at the all sky camera and the Last upload was: 2015/01/24 03:26:24 UTC. It says to hit reload to get the latest images but I don't see a reload button anywhere on the page. I must be missing something. Can someone help me out?
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Gary
>> 
> 
> 
> 
> 

Info on the calendar indicates 6:00 start time at 3411 West 103rd Street,
Leawood, KS 66206

Sent via Gmail from David Young

On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 3:53 AM, randracsek@... [ASKC] <
ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

>
>
> Evan and I can likely go. If not then we can lend the binoculars and scope
> we have that have solar shields
>
> What time and what's the address?
>
> -Robynn Andracsek
>  
>

Excellent work Doug!  Thanks so much for sharing. Can you tell us a little about your camera settings?

---- "boilerhawk@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote: 
> I'm not sure how many of you tried to see the asteroid this past Monday night. To me it was a BIG disappointment. I went to Hillsdale Lake and could not see it with binoculars. I tried to photograph it and thought I had failed until I talked with Dave Hudgins. After he described it I blew up my images about 10 times and then heavily cropped my originals. I also had to use a bunch of Photoshop tricks to try to better show the asteroid. I have put the images together in a video in a folder called "Asteroid 2004 BL86 in the files section. I will also supply a link below. I don't know how well this will play but if it looks OK you will see how faint the asteroid was. The asteroid is travelling through and below the Beehive Cluster. No wonder few people could see it. Most of the stars are brighter. This was supposedly a magnitude 9. I'm not sure about that. 
> 
>  
> 
>  Doug Spalding
>  
> 
>  Link to video:
>  This is the unofficial list of the ASKC http://tinyurl.com/jvm4tgd
> 
>  
>  
>  http://tinyurl.com/jvm4tgd 
>  
>  This is the unofficial list of the ASKC http://tinyurl.com/jvm4tgd This is the unofficial Yahoo group of the Astronomical Society of Kansas City.
>  
>  
>  
>  View on tinyurl.com http://tinyurl.com/jvm4tgd 
>  Preview by Yahoo 
>  
>  
>  
> 

Alan and everyone, 
 Thanks so much for your comments. I have posted a response to Tom Martinez where I give details of the video. Also in a separate response to Denise Moser I gave the time period. Thanks for looking. It is much fun to share stuff like this. 
 

 Doug S

It is an awesome place and a great organization. I think anyone would find it very rewarding to share your knowledge of the sky with the kids. 

 Dave
 

 PS Sophia needs to share some information with the rest of us. Someone (other than me) needs to ask her if she has received any honors recently.
 

 

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We're having some work done to the basement wall that requires
removal/relocation of a lot of shelves and the "stuff" stored on them. Yay!
Forced clean up. In the process of composting the debris field I found 12
#14 welder's plates. These are the ones that are safe observe the sun and
solar eclipses. I know its a bit early but someone might want to add them
the inventory ASKC inventory for upcoming eclipses. If I keep them they may
be lost in the strewn field when I put the basement back together. Anyone
care to take possession of them pending the eclipse(s)?

Sent via Gmail from David Young

Thank you Dave and thank you for the information you gave me that allowed me to find the little bugger among all my images. I came very close to deleting all my images before talking to you. Once I talked to you I realized how faint it was and I took another harder look at my pictures and there it was. 

 Doug
 

---In ASKC@yahoogroups.com, <dhudgins@...> wrote :

 Doug,
  
 Fantastic! Fantastic!
  
 A super video that very accurately portrays how it looked. It was fun to again see this little asteroid cruise very close by some  of the stars I remember with my scope. A couple times I thought it might actually occult a star...but that is very unlikely with an asteroid this small this small. I had to watch this a dozen times!
  
 It’s a beautiful portrayal and you are to be congratulated to catch this with a simple 75mm lens.
  
 Well done!  : ^ )
  
 Dave Hudgins

Melinda, please call the number below after 4:15 about the scope. Thanks, Joe _______________________________________________________________________________

Joseph S. Wright

Cell Phone:  (913) 208-0924

Operations Manager, Warkoczewski Public Observatory (WPO)  
  University of Missouri-Kansas City

Vice-President, Astronomical Society of Kansas City
Solar System Ambassador, NASA/JPL Volunteer Program
Girl Scouts of NE Kansas-NW Missouri  Aerospace/Astronomy/Weather S.T.E.M. Specialist

I will be there.

John Fitzgerald



On Tuesday, January 27, 2015 11:51 PM, "David Young youngmdavid@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
 


  
I just got a request for us to go to Brookwood Elementary again this year on May 7.  Drop me a note if you can attend. This will be in full daylight so it will be solar scopes outside or maybe find Jupiter or Venus in full sunlight.

Sent via Gmail from David Young

Thanks John. I added you to the calendar. This may be a good place to use
my iOptron mount and ETX 125 and try to find Jupiter or Venus in full
daylight.

Sent via Gmail from David Young

On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 3:48 PM, John Fitzgerald jhonfitz@... [ASKC] <
ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

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>
> I will be there.
>
> John Fitzgerald
>
>
>   On Tuesday, January 27, 2015 11:51 PM, "David Young
> youngmdavid@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
>
>
>
>  I just got a request for us to go to Brookwood Elementary again this
> year on May 7.  Drop me a note if you can attend. This will be in full
> daylight so it will be solar scopes outside or maybe find Jupiter or Venus
> in full sunlight.
>
> Sent via Gmail from David Young
>
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>    
>

Doug,

 

Thank you for sharing your video.  I didn't make it out to Powell Monday night and was very glad to see it second hand, so to speak, through your video.  Having Praesepe as a backdrop just made it all the more beautiful, to boot!

 

Rick Henderson

 

From: ASKC@yahoogroups.com [mailto:ASKC@yahoogroups.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2015 12:59 AM
To: ASKC@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [ASKC] Asteroid 2004 BL86

 

  

I'm not sure how many of you tried to see the asteroid this past Monday night. To me it was a BIG disappointment. I went to Hillsdale Lake and could not see it with binoculars. I tried to photograph it and thought I had failed until I talked with Dave Hudgins. After he described it I blew up my images about 10 times and then heavily cropped my originals. I also had to use a bunch of Photoshop tricks to try to better show the asteroid. I have put the images together in a video in a folder called "Asteroid 2004 BL86 in the files section. I will also supply a link below. I don't know how well this will play but if it looks OK you will see how faint the asteroid was. The asteroid is travelling through and below the Beehive Cluster. No wonder few people could see it. Most of the stars are brighter. This was supposedly a magnitude 9. I'm not sure about that. 

 

Doug Spalding

 

Link to video:

This is the unofficial list of the ASKC <http://tinyurl.com/jvm4tgd> 

	
	
 <http://tinyurl.com/jvm4tgd> image

	 <http://tinyurl.com/jvm4tgd> This is the unofficial list of the ASKC 

This is the unofficial Yahoo group of the Astronomical Society of Kansas City.

	


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Preview by Yahoo 

	
						

 

David, 

 I can't thank you enough for finding the asteroid and sharing it with those who came by. Otherwise, I would have never seen it...
 

 Sincerely,
 

 Richard Fredrick
 

Doug, that is really impressive. Thanks for posting. 

 Gene Williams

Need something to run a telescope? Marcia wants to sell her old computer.

Mac PowerBook G4  17" screen   10.3.9 OS
1.5 Ghz   512 ram l2 cash 512kb   167 mhz bus

Anyone interested before I Craiglist it for $75   $100 plus on ebay.


Sent via Gmail from David Young

I'd be happy to store them with the solar shields I have. 

-Robynn Andracsek

Gene, what you are seeing is actually a hot pixel. There are several of them and they all seem to be moving to the right, but in fact are stationary. The stars are drifting to the left making the stationary hot pixels seem to be moving to the right. To prove it, put your finger just under it on the screen and you will see that it does not move but stays above your finger. Also it is not blinking like the stars and the asteroid are. At the very beginning of the video there is another hot pixel just above and to the right of the asteroid. Tom J Martinez
http://tomjmartinez.blogspot.com/ 

     On Wednesday, January 28, 2015 9:14 PM, "genogeno1@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
   

     Doug, that is really impressive. Thanks for posting.
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Tom, thanks.  It occurred to me after i posted it was probably a geosynchronous satellite because i found several in the fov.  The hot pixel sounds like a more likely candidate though. 

Gene Williams

I'll see if I can remember to put them in my car so I'll have them with me.
That may work. I put a little electronic level in the car so I'd have it
with me to give to Richard. Couldn't find the blasted thing last Saturday.
Found it yesterday in the cup holder. Old age is starting take it's toll:-)

Did you every use the Questar? Are you still using it? If not I'd like to
have it back.

Sent via Gmail from David Young

On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 10:37 PM, randracsek@... [ASKC] <
ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

>
>
> I'd be happy to store them with the solar shields I have.
>
> -Robynn Andracsek
>  
>

Gene,

The slightly dimmer object that you spotted near 2004 BL86, but appearing to go in the opposite direction, is almost certainly a geosynchronous satellite - not another asteroid. You notice that it is located almost dead-on the ecliptic as a geo sat would be. This second object is actually stationery overhead, but the stars are slowly drifting by due to earth rotation. 

However, I am a bit confused by the apparent eastward motion of the stars (Seems wrong at first). But I wonder if this is caused by Doug tracking at a solar rate rather than sidereal rate? Or perhaps the other way around? 

Oh-oh. My head is starting to hurt, so I am going to have to stop.

So this can be my club challenge, heh-heh!  Maybe Scott Kranz or others can figure this funny apparent motion out. 

Dave Hudgins

Tom M suggests a hot pixel, and he knows a lot more about photography than I do, heh-heh!  Maybe this better explains the unexpected motion. Being right on the ecliptic like a geo stat might just be a coincidence?
 

 Years ago, I stumbled on a geo satellite before looking thru the eyepiece.... and it is a weird experience when looking thru a dob. The stars slowly drift off the field while the geo satellite stays fixed.
 

 Dave
  

Yeah, I think Tom's Hot Pixel idea is a better explanation than a geo satellite. Especially as he points out other examples on the video.
 

 Tom is the Mystery Solver, heh-heh!   Well  done.
 

 Dave

Slooh.com and Space.com will have special webcasts of the comet today. I
think Slooh is at 5:30 but you should check if interested in watching.

Sent via Gmail from David Young

The webcast is at 4:30 central time on slooh.com and space.com
Sent via Gmail from David Young

David, since geo satellites are stationary, and the camera is following the stars, that would make any geo sat streak on a long exposure. The reason the stars are drifting during the video is that the mount was probably not perfectly polar aligned, and Doug was not guiding (to keep the stars from drifting). Tom J Martinez
http://tomjmartinez.blogspot.com/ 

     On Thursday, January 29, 2015 11:13 AM, "dhudgins@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
   

     Yeah, I think Tom's Hot Pixel idea is a better explanation than a geo satellite. Especially as he points out other examples on the video.
Tom is the Mystery Solver, heh-heh!   Well  done.
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David, 

 I might be interested. Let me check with the "boss" and get back with you asap.
 

 Grant

I'll trade you the questar for the solar shields. We're done with it.  We ended up using the binoculars with Baadar film since it was more portable. Thanks though. I'm trying to talk Evan into presenting his science project at an ASKC meeting, but i might have to settle with him bringing it in just to show people.  
  
 Call me to set up the trade.  816-377-1288
  
 -Robynn

I've intentionally found many geo-synch satellites. Many times i can get 3 or 4 easily in a single field of view.

Since my scope has a drive, i wait till they drift to the center of the field and then turn the drive off. At that moment, the satellites stop moving and the stars start drifting.

One time, i walked away for 2 hours and the satellites were just as i left them when i returned.

-scott


Sent from inside the TARDIS

<div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: "dhudgins@kc.rr.com [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> </div><div>Date:01/29/2015  11:05  (GMT-06:00) </div><div>To: ASKC@yahoogroups.com </div><div>Subject: [ASKC] Re: Asteroid 2004 BL86 and "wrongway asteroid" in background </div><div>
</div>Tom M suggests a hot pixel, and he knows a lot more about photography than I do, heh-heh!  Maybe this better explains the unexpected motion. Being right on the ecliptic like a geo stat might just be a coincidence?



Years ago, I stumbled on a geo satellite before looking thru the eyepiece.... and it is a weird experience when looking thru a dob. The stars slowly drift off the field while the geo satellite stays fixed.



Dave

 

I've done it twice. The first time it was a spooky experience having them stay in the field of view knowing that the scope drive was OFF.  Pretty cool to do. Grant 

Is there an all-sky camera at the DSS as well?
 Kind regards,Matthew Valdivia, Principal
BRANDS de LUXE, l.l.c.
Manufacturers Representatives
Cellular (816)273-3665
matthew@...

I can attest to that, Scott. I remember you showed me four in the same field of view on at least two occasions at the dss.  

Gene WillIams

Sophia,
I have several small-part prototyping projects that would be well suited to 3d printing that I'd be willing to farm out to any students in your program doing engineering/machining/fabrication that might like to make a few extra bucks. Kind regards,Matthew Valdivia, Principal
BRANDS de LUXE, l.l.c.
Manufacturers Representatives
Cellular (816)273-3665
matthew@brandsdeluxe.org

If Colby or Grant (since they spoke up first) don't take it, I definitely will. Let me know.
Kind regards,Matthew Valdivia, Principal
BRANDS de LUXE, l.l.c.
Manufacturers Representatives
Cellular (816)273-3665
matthew@brandsdeluxe.org 

     On Thursday, January 29, 2015 12:42 PM, "mllrgrnt@...m [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
   

     David,
I might be interested. Let me check with the "boss" and get back with you asap.
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I just realized that I said private. Anyone can participate by sending Jim
Ketchum the proper amount of money. He'll give you the password. I always
give the group money but have never actually used it. I can never remember
the password but I have internet access on my Verizon smartphone down there
so I have never needed it.

Sent via Gmail from David Young

On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 2:02 PM, David Young <youngmdavid@...> wrote:

> Not at the DSS. The wifi access there is owned and operated by a private
> group of ASKC  that pays for the system without ASKC funding.
>
> Sent via Gmail from David Young
>
> On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 1:03 PM, Matthew Valdivia
> valdivia_matthew@... [ASKC] <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Is there an all-sky camera at the DSS as well?
>>
>> Kind regards,
>>
>> *Matthew Valdivia, Principal*
>> *BRANDS de LUXE, l.l.c.*
>> Manufacturers Representatives
>> Cellular (816)273-3665
>> matthew@...
>>
>>  
>>
>
>

Not at the DSS. The wifi access there is owned and operated by a private
group of ASKC  that pays for the system without ASKC funding.

Sent via Gmail from David Young

On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 1:03 PM, Matthew Valdivia valdivia_matthew@...
[ASKC] <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

>
>
> Is there an all-sky camera at the DSS as well?
>
> Kind regards,
>
> *Matthew Valdivia, Principal*
> *BRANDS de LUXE, l.l.c.*
> Manufacturers Representatives
> Cellular (816)273-3665
> matthew@...
>
>  
>

Serious iPhone astrophotography is maybe possible? I've done it with the Moon, Sun, Venus, Saturn, and Mars. But this article really expands on the possibilities. http://www.universetoday.com/118527/iphone-astrophotography-how-to-take-amazing-images-of-the-sky-with-your-smartphone-tonight/

Thanks,
Cindy Bahl

Hello,


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You can access this file at the URL:
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You can access this file at the URL:
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valdivia_matthew <valdivia_matthew@...>

For those who expressed an interest in this topic, I've posted summary reports of my meeting with the Department of Conservation's Private Lands Conservationist and 1st round of brush collection, relocation and pile construction.
You can see the reports and the associated pictures I took in the newly created DSS NRC (natural resource conservation) folder here:
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/ASKC/files/DSS%20NRC/

I will really need help - in the form of one to three more human bodies and either a pick-up or a vehicle with a suitable trailer to complete the next round of brush collection, relocation and pile construction. If anyone would be willing to make a 1/2 day of it (perhaps before or after a night of observing?) please let me know so we can compare schedules. Kind regards,Matthew Valdivia, Principal
BRANDS de LUXE, l.l.c.
Manufacturers Representatives
Cellular (816)273-3665
matthew@...

Would you please plot these on a plan view of the DSS so we can see exactly
where the proposed locations are? You can use Google Earth to get a pretty
good map and then mark the locations on it, scan that and upload. If you
don't have a scanner you could use the lat and long coordinate display
feature of Google Earth to get real close. Be sure to get the locations
approved by Darrick Gray before you create any piles.

Sent via Gmail from David Young

On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 11:26 PM, Matthew Valdivia
valdivia_matthew@yahoo.com [ASKC] <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

>
>
> For those who expressed an interest in this topic, I've posted summary
> reports of my meeting with the Department of Conservation's Private Lands
> Conservationist and 1st round of brush collection, relocation and pile
> construction.
>
> You can see the reports and the associated pictures I took in the newly
> created DSS NRC (natural resource conservation) folder here:
> https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/ASKC/files/DSS%20NRC/
>
> *I will really need help* - in the form of one to three more human bodies
> and either a pick-up or a vehicle with a suitable trailer to complete the
> next round of brush collection, relocation and pile construction. If anyone
> would be willing to make a 1/2 day of it (perhaps before or after a night
> of observing?) please let me know so we can compare schedules.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> *Matthew Valdivia, Principal*
> *BRANDS de LUXE, l.l.c.*
> Manufacturers Representatives
> Cellular (816)273-3665
> matthew@...
>
>  
>

I wasn't going to go into too much detail here or on the summary reports I posted to the file-share portion of the group because I wanted to wait for the PLC's full written report, which will be quite exhaustive. But to cover that part briefly, the Private Land Conservationist recommended what foresters and management biologists refer to as "feathered-edge structures" - "structures" being jargon for "well-planned/built piles". These consist of a strategic combination deliberately felled tree species of zero-wildlife/commercial value, natural fell, and man-made trimmings/cuttings gathered from other locations. These structures are felled/laid generally in-line with the edge contours, are 20-100 feet long and spaced roughly 100 yds apart along the edges, with the caveat that extreme care must be taken to avoid building these brush structures in very close proximity (roughly 10 feet) of any established creek banks.
That said, the next time I am at the DSS I will try to plot out, roughly, on an aerial image, the half dozen or so locations he recommended for these structures.
Kind regards,Matthew ( ) Valdivia, Principal ( )BRANDS de LUXE, l.l.c. ( )
Manufacturers Representatives ( )
Cellular (816)273-3665
matthew@... 

     On Thursday, January 29, 2015 11:48 PM, "David Young youngmdavid@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
   

     Would you please plot these on a plan view of the DSS so we can see exactly where the proposed locations are? You can use Google Earth to get a pretty good map and then mark the locations on it, scan that and upload. If you don't have a scanner you could use the lat and long coordinate display feature of Google Earth to get real close. Be sure to get the locations approved by Darrick Gray before you create any piles.
Sent via Gmail from David Young
On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 11:26 PM, Matthew Valdivia valdivia_matthew@... [ASKC] <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

     For those who expressed an interest in this topic, I've posted summary reports of my meeting with the Department of Conservation's Private Lands Conservationist and 1st round of brush collection, relocation and pile construction.
You can see the reports and the associated pictures I took in the newly created DSS NRC (natural resource conservation) folder here:
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/ASKC/files/DSS%20NRC/

I will really need help - in the form of one to three more human bodies and either a pick-up or a vehicle with a suitable trailer to complete the next round of brush collection, relocation and pile construction. If anyone would be willing to make a 1/2 day of it (perhaps before or after a night of observing?) please let me know so we can compare schedules. Kind regards,Matthew Valdivia, Principal
BRANDS de LUXE, l.l.c.
Manufacturers Representatives
Cellular (816)273-3665
matthew@...   

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"Be sure to get the locations approved by Darrick Gray before you create any piles."

Will do. During the survey, the PLC and I were working from the go/no-go map (posted in the new DSS NRC folder) provided by Scott. In the mean time, if you would like, you can have Darrick review that map and confirm Scott's guidelines.  
 
Kind regards,Matthew Valdivia, Principal
BRANDS de LUXE, l.l.c.
Manufacturers Representatives
Cellular (816)273-3665
matthew@... 

     On Friday, January 30, 2015 12:01 AM, Matthew Valdivia <valdivia_matthew@...> wrote:
   

 I wasn't going to go into too much detail here or on the summary reports I posted to the file-share portion of the group because I wanted to wait for the PLC's full written report, which will be quite exhaustive. But to cover that part briefly, the Private Land Conservationist recommended what foresters and management biologists refer to as "feathered-edge structures" - "structures" being jargon for "well-planned/built piles". These consist of a strategic combination deliberately felled tree species of zero-wildlife/commercial value, natural fell, and man-made trimmings/cuttings gathered from other locations. These structures are felled/laid generally in-line with the edge contours, are 20-100 feet long and spaced roughly 100 yds apart along the edges, with the caveat that extreme care must be taken to avoid building these brush structures in very close proximity (roughly 10 feet) of any established creek banks.
That said, the next time I am at the DSS I will try to plot out, roughly, on an aerial image, the half dozen or so locations he recommended for these structures.
Kind regards,Matthew ( ) Valdivia, Principal ( )BRANDS de LUXE, l.l.c. ( )
Manufacturers Representatives ( )
Cellular (816)273-3665
matthew@... 

     On Thursday, January 29, 2015 11:48 PM, "David Young youngmdavid@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
   

     Would you please plot these on a plan view of the DSS so we can see exactly where the proposed locations are? You can use Google Earth to get a pretty good map and then mark the locations on it, scan that and upload. If you don't have a scanner you could use the lat and long coordinate display feature of Google Earth to get real close. Be sure to get the locations approved by Darrick Gray before you create any piles.
Sent via Gmail from David Young
On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 11:26 PM, Matthew Valdivia valdivia_matthew@... [ASKC] <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

     For those who expressed an interest in this topic, I've posted summary reports of my meeting with the Department of Conservation's Private Lands Conservationist and 1st round of brush collection, relocation and pile construction.
You can see the reports and the associated pictures I took in the newly created DSS NRC (natural resource conservation) folder here:
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/ASKC/files/DSS%20NRC/

I will really need help - in the form of one to three more human bodies and either a pick-up or a vehicle with a suitable trailer to complete the next round of brush collection, relocation and pile construction. If anyone would be willing to make a 1/2 day of it (perhaps before or after a night of observing?) please let me know so we can compare schedules. Kind regards,Matthew Valdivia, Principal
BRANDS de LUXE, l.l.c.
Manufacturers Representatives
Cellular (816)273-3665
matthew@brandsdeluxe.org   

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I was playing with some old timelapse software I had lying around and 
also happened across a URL to the wunderground image for powell.

This is a 31 hour timelapse from 1/28/2015 @ 5pm to 1/30/2015 @ 1230am.

I'm going to experiment some more, and hope to get some w/o clouds. Ursa 
Major shows up in the upper left moving, but I'm to bad an observer to 
see much other in the nighttime clear portions.

i slowed this to 7 frames / sec (3 min / frame) and can slow it more if 
anyone has a problem.  Just playing with it now.

thanks
Jim

http://youtu.be/yZwvvQUtBvM

To make it easier for me to view and read, I copied the photos (less the ones with the dog) into an album in the photo area along with a Word document combining all the text files.  Joe _______________________________________________________________________________

Joseph S. Wright

Cell Phone:  (913) 208-0924

Operations Manager, Warkoczewski Public Observatory (WPO)  
  University of Missouri-Kansas City

Vice-President, Astronomical Society of Kansas City
Solar System Ambassador, NASA/JPL Volunteer Program
Girl Scouts of NE Kansas-NW Missouri  Aerospace/Astronomy/Weather S.T.E.M. Specialist

Jim, we have all the images locally stored at Powell, going back to last summer (some breaks in coverage). What could you do with those?

Jason

Sent from my mobile

> On Jan 30, 2015, at 0:28, "Jim Stephens jws@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
> 
> I was playing with some old timelapse software I had lying around and 
> also happened across a URL to the wunderground image for powell.
> 
> This is a 31 hour timelapse from 1/28/2015 @ 5pm to 1/30/2015 @ 1230am.
> 
> I'm going to experiment some more, and hope to get some w/o clouds. Ursa 
> Major shows up in the upper left moving, but I'm to bad an observer to 
> see much other in the nighttime clear portions.
> 
> i slowed this to 7 frames / sec (3 min / frame) and can slow it more if 
> anyone has a problem.  Just playing with it now.
> 
> thanks
> Jim
> 
> http://youtu.be/yZwvvQUtBvM
> 
> 
> 
> ------------------------------------
> Posted by: Jim Stephens <jws@...>
> ------------------------------------
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ------------------------------------
> 
> Yahoo Groups Links
> 
> 
> 

Matthew,

There's absolutely a niche here for tasks like that. I believe the CAPS
model dictates that pay is optional--the standard here is actually to work
for free, since we appreciate all the opportunities we're provided. David
Young sent me a list of emails of people who may be interested, so I'll
include you on that chain (I'll send it out sometime this weekend). I would
highly recommend joining the tour if you're able. The facilities here are
unbelievable!

Thanks,
Sophia

On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 1:26 PM, Matthew Valdivia valdivia_matthew@...
[ASKC] <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

>
>
> Sophia,
>
> I have several small-part prototyping projects that would be well suited
> to 3d printing that I'd be willing to farm out to any students in your
> program doing engineering/machining/fabrication that might like to make a
> few extra bucks.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> *Matthew Valdivia, Principal*
> *BRANDS de LUXE, l.l.c.*
> Manufacturers Representatives
> Cellular (816)273-3665
> matthew@...
>
>  
>

David, and all, if you have looked at the Go/NoGo map created by me, please look at it and provide any comments. Darrick has reviewed it as well.

-scott


Sent from inside the TARDIS

<div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: "Matthew Valdivia valdivia_matthew@yahoo.com [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> </div><div>Date:01/30/2015  00:06  (GMT-06:00) </div><div>To: ASKC@yahoogroups.com </div><div>Subject: Re: [ASKC] DSS brush collection, relocation and pile construction; meeting with Mo Dept of Conservation </div><div>
</div>"Be sure to get the locations approved by Darrick Gray before you create any piles."

Will do. During the survey, the PLC and I were working from the go/no-go map (posted in the new DSS NRC folder) provided by Scott. In the mean time, if you would like, you can have Darrick review that map and confirm Scott's guidelines.  

Kind regards,
Matthew Valdivia, Principal
BRANDS de LUXE, l.l.c.
Manufacturers Representatives
Cellular (816)273-3665
matthew@brandsdeluxe.org


On Friday, January 30, 2015 12:01 AM, Matthew Valdivia <valdivia_matthew@yahoo.com> wrote:


I wasn't going to go into too much detail here or on the summary reports I posted to the file-share portion of the group because I wanted to wait for the PLC's full written report, which will be quite exhaustive. But to cover that part briefly, the Private Land Conservationist recommended what foresters and management biologists refer to as "feathered-edge structures" - "structures" being jargon for "well-planned/built piles". These consist of a strategic combination deliberately felled tree species of zero-wildlife/commercial value, natural fell, and man-made trimmings/cuttings gathered from other locations. These structures are felled/laid generally in-line with the edge contours, are 20-100 feet long and spaced roughly 100 yds apart along the edges, with the caveat that extreme care must be taken to avoid building these brush structures in very close proximity (roughly 10 feet) of any established creek banks.

That said, the next time I am at the DSS I will try to plot out, roughly, on an aerial image, the half dozen or so locations he recommended for these structures.
Kind regards,
Matthew ( ) Valdivia, Principal ( )
BRANDS de LUXE, l.l.c. (                       )
Manufacturers Representatives ( )
Cellular (816)273-3665
matthew@brandsdeluxe.org


On Thursday, January 29, 2015 11:48 PM, "David Young youngmdavid@gmail.com [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:


 
Would you please plot these on a plan view of the DSS so we can see exactly where the proposed locations are? You can use Google Earth to get a pretty good map and then mark the locations on it, scan that and upload. If you don't have a scanner you could use the lat and long coordinate display feature of Google Earth to get real close. Be sure to get the locations approved by Darrick Gray before you create any piles.

Sent via Gmail from David Young

On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 11:26 PM, Matthew Valdivia valdivia_matthew@yahoo.com [ASKC] <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
 
For those who expressed an interest in this topic, I've posted summary reports of my meeting with the Department of Conservation's Private Lands Conservationist and 1st round of brush collection, relocation and pile construction.

You can see the reports and the associated pictures I took in the newly created DSS NRC (natural resource conservation) folder here:
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/ASKC/files/DSS%20NRC/

I will really need help - in the form of one to three more human bodies and either a pick-up or a vehicle with a suitable trailer to complete the next round of brush collection, relocation and pile construction. If anyone would be willing to make a 1/2 day of it (perhaps before or after a night of observing?) please let me know so we can compare schedules.
 
Kind regards,
Matthew Valdivia, Principal
BRANDS de LUXE, l.l.c.
Manufacturers Representatives
Cellular (816)273-3665
matthew@brandsdeluxe.org

I am ready to upgrade my telescope equipment.  I have about $3,000 to $3,500 to work with.  

My requirements are:  

1.  Must be transportable by me alone (woman, age 50, can lift about 50 pounds max)
2.  Must fit in sedan (Pontiac Bonneville)
3.  Don't require GoTo but would prefer that feature so that the scope will track object once it's located (for observing and sketching). 
4.  Best aperture and focal length for highly light polluted area (Lansing, Kansas about a 1/2 mile south of the Lansing Correctional Facility).  

Before the end of the year, I had looked at a couple of scopes by SkyWatcher, Orion and Celestron (12-16 inch dobs with tracking).  

What are your thoughts?  

Thanks, 

Jon Moss
 
 

I must have missed it the first time around. I just looked at the map in
the Yahoo file area and it shows the areas I anticipated. Nicely done and
easy to see where they could go. Sadly I no longer have any pickup trucks,
heavy trucks or large trailers. I do have a Tahoe that could pull someone
else's trailer. I have a very small 4 X 8 trailer with short sides but I'm
not sure it would be much use for this project.

I'm game for a brush hauling session. I have limited stamina and mobility
but I can go for a couple of hours before I start getting in the way.

Sent via Gmail from David Young

On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 10:23 AM, Scott s.kranz1@... [ASKC] <
ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

>
>
> David, and all, if you have looked at the Go/NoGo map created by me,
> please look at it and provide any comments. Darrick has reviewed it as well.
>
> -scott
>
>
> Sent from inside the TARDIS
>
>
> -------- Original message --------
> From: "Matthew Valdivia valdivia_matthew@... [ASKC]"
> Date:01/30/2015 00:06 (GMT-06:00)
> To: ASKC@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [ASKC] DSS brush collection, relocation and pile
> construction; meeting with Mo Dept of Conservation
>
>
>
> "Be sure to get the locations approved by Darrick Gray before you create
> any piles."
>
> Will do. During the survey, the PLC and I were working from the go/no-go
> map (posted in the new DSS NRC folder) provided by Scott. In the mean time,
> if you would like, you can have Darrick review that map and confirm Scott's
> guidelines.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> *Matthew Valdivia, Principal*
> *BRANDS de LUXE, l.l.c.*
> Manufacturers Representatives
> Cellular (816)273-3665
> matthew@...
>
>
>   On Friday, January 30, 2015 12:01 AM, Matthew Valdivia <
> valdivia_matthew@...> wrote:
>
>
> I wasn't going to go into too much detail here or on the summary reports I
> posted to the file-share portion of the group because I wanted to wait for
> the PLC's full written report, which will be quite exhaustive. But to cover
> that part briefly, the Private Land Conservationist recommended what
> foresters and management biologists refer to as "feathered-edge structures"
> - "structures" being jargon for "well-planned/built piles". These consist
> of a strategic combination deliberately felled tree species of
> zero-wildlife/commercial value, natural fell, and man-made
> trimmings/cuttings gathered from other locations. These structures are
> felled/laid generally in-line with the edge contours, are 20-100 feet long
> and spaced roughly 100 yds apart along the edges, with the caveat that
> extreme care must be taken to avoid building these brush structures in very
> close proximity (roughly 10 feet) of any established creek banks.
>
> That said, the next time I am at the DSS I will try to plot out, roughly,
> on an aerial image, the half dozen or so locations he recommended for these
> structures.
> Kind regards,
> *Matthew ( ) Valdivia, Principal ( )*
> *BRANDS de LUXE, l.l.c. ( )*
> Manufacturers Representatives ( )
> Cellular (816)273-3665
> matthew@brandsdeluxe.org
>
>
>   On Thursday, January 29, 2015 11:48 PM, "David Young
> youngmdavid@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
>
>
>
>  Would you please plot these on a plan view of the DSS so we can see
> exactly where the proposed locations are? You can use Google Earth to get a
> pretty good map and then mark the locations on it, scan that and upload. If
> you don't have a scanner you could use the lat and long coordinate display
> feature of Google Earth to get real close. Be sure to get the locations
> approved by Darrick Gray before you create any piles.
>
> Sent via Gmail from David Young
>
> On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 11:26 PM, Matthew Valdivia
> valdivia_matthew@... [ASKC] <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
>
>
>  For those who expressed an interest in this topic, I've posted summary
> reports of my meeting with the Department of Conservation's Private Lands
> Conservationist and 1st round of brush collection, relocation and pile
> construction.
>
> You can see the reports and the associated pictures I took in the newly
> created DSS NRC (natural resource conservation) folder here:
> https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/ASKC/files/DSS%20NRC/
>
> *I will really need help* - in the form of one to three more human bodies
> and either a pick-up or a vehicle with a suitable trailer to complete the
> next round of brush collection, relocation and pile construction. If anyone
> would be willing to make a 1/2 day of it (perhaps before or after a night
> of observing?) please let me know so we can compare schedules.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> *Matthew Valdivia, Principal*
> *BRANDS de LUXE, l.l.c.*
> Manufacturers Representatives
> Cellular (816)273-3665
> matthew@...
>
>
>
>
>
>
>     
>

Dave, 

A Tahoe and a 4x8 short-side trailer would be fantastic. In fact, anything would be fantastic compared to dragging it all around the property by hand, by myself, for several hours - which is what I had to do on Wednesday.
I also learned the hard way that the new sinks and showers don't do you any good if they're turned off, so you still need to bring lots of your own water - after the first hour of work I was so dehydrated I got cotton-mouth and was a little concerned I was going to have a medical emergency.

As far as stamina goes, don't worry about it. If all you do is drive the Tahoe, that would still be a huge help. Kind regards,Matthew Valdivia, Principal
BRANDS de LUXE, l.l.c.
Manufacturers Representatives
Cellular (816)273-3665
matthew@... 

     On Friday, January 30, 2015 10:31 AM, "David Young youngmdavid@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
   

     I must have missed it the first time around. I just looked at the map in the Yahoo file area and it shows the areas I anticipated. Nicely done and easy to see where they could go. Sadly I no longer have any pickup trucks, heavy trucks or large trailers. I do have a Tahoe that could pull someone else's trailer. I have a very small 4 X 8 trailer with short sides but I'm not sure it would be much use for this project.
I'm game for a brush hauling session. I have limited stamina and mobility but I can go for a couple of hours before I start getting in the way. 
Sent via Gmail from David Young
On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 10:23 AM, Scott s.kranz1@comcast.net [ASKC] <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

     David, and all, if you have looked at the Go/NoGo map created by me, please look at it and provide any comments. Darrick has reviewed it as well.
-scott

Sent from inside the TARDIS

-------- Original message --------From: "Matthew Valdivia valdivia_matthew@... [ASKC]"  Date:01/30/2015 00:06 (GMT-06:00) To: ASKC@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [ASKC] DSS brush collection, relocation and pile construction; meeting with Mo Dept of Conservation 
   "Be sure to get the locations approved by Darrick Gray before you create any piles."

Will do. During the survey, the PLC and I were working from the go/no-go map (posted in the new DSS NRC folder) provided by Scott. In the mean time, if you would like, you can have Darrick review that map and confirm Scott's guidelines.  
 
Kind regards,Matthew Valdivia, Principal
BRANDS de LUXE, l.l.c.
Manufacturers Representatives
Cellular (816)273-3665
matthew@brandsdeluxe.org 

     On Friday, January 30, 2015 12:01 AM, Matthew Valdivia <valdivia_matthew@...> wrote:
   

 I wasn't going to go into too much detail here or on the summary reports I posted to the file-share portion of the group because I wanted to wait for the PLC's full written report, which will be quite exhaustive. But to cover that part briefly, the Private Land Conservationist recommended what foresters and management biologists refer to as "feathered-edge structures" - "structures" being jargon for "well-planned/built piles". These consist of a strategic combination deliberately felled tree species of zero-wildlife/commercial value, natural fell, and man-made trimmings/cuttings gathered from other locations. These structures are felled/laid generally in-line with the edge contours, are 20-100 feet long and spaced roughly 100 yds apart along the edges, with the caveat that extreme care must be taken to avoid building these brush structures in very close proximity (roughly 10 feet) of any established creek banks.
That said, the next time I am at the DSS I will try to plot out, roughly, on an aerial image, the half dozen or so locations he recommended for these structures.
Kind regards,Matthew ( ) Valdivia, Principal ( )BRANDS de LUXE, l.l.c. ( )
Manufacturers Representatives ( )
Cellular (816)273-3665
matthew@brandsdeluxe.org 

     On Thursday, January 29, 2015 11:48 PM, "David Young youngmdavid@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
   

     Would you please plot these on a plan view of the DSS so we can see exactly where the proposed locations are? You can use Google Earth to get a pretty good map and then mark the locations on it, scan that and upload. If you don't have a scanner you could use the lat and long coordinate display feature of Google Earth to get real close. Be sure to get the locations approved by Darrick Gray before you create any piles.
Sent via Gmail from David Young
On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 11:26 PM, Matthew Valdivia valdivia_matthew@... [ASKC] <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

     For those who expressed an interest in this topic, I've posted summary reports of my meeting with the Department of Conservation's Private Lands Conservationist and 1st round of brush collection, relocation and pile construction.
You can see the reports and the associated pictures I took in the newly created DSS NRC (natural resource conservation) folder here:
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/ASKC/files/DSS%20NRC/

I will really need help - in the form of one to three more human bodies and either a pick-up or a vehicle with a suitable trailer to complete the next round of brush collection, relocation and pile construction. If anyone would be willing to make a 1/2 day of it (perhaps before or after a night of observing?) please let me know so we can compare schedules. Kind regards,Matthew Valdivia, Principal
BRANDS de LUXE, l.l.c.
Manufacturers Representatives
Cellular (816)273-3665
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Jon,
My advice, for what ever it is/isn't worth, would be to wait and keep saving your pennies until you have another $500 to invest and then get an 11" Celestron EdgeHD Kit (Celestron sku# 11082)Kind regards,Matthew Valdivia, Principal
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     On Friday, January 30, 2015 10:26 AM, "mossjon@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
   

     I am ready to upgrade my telescope equipment.  I have about $3,000 to $3,500 to work with.  

My requirements are:  

1.  Must be transportable by me alone (woman, age 50, can lift about 50 pounds max)
2.  Must fit in sedan (Pontiac Bonneville)
3.  Don't require GoTo but would prefer that feature so that the scope will track object once it's located (for observing and sketching). 
4.  Best aperture and focal length for highly light polluted area (Lansing, Kansas about a 1/2 mile south of the Lansing Correctional Facility).  

Before the end of the year, I had looked at a couple of scopes by SkyWatcher, Orion and Celestron (12-16 inch dobs with tracking).  

What are your thoughts?  

Thanks, 

Jon Moss
 

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The showers are deactivated so they don't freeze in the winter. The water is still available at the hydrants! You might need to turn it on down by the gate. The padlocks on the hydrants have combinations to match the other combo lock.

Next time you are thinking of going down get in touch with me and I'll make an attempt to join you for a while.

Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE DROID

"Matthew Valdivia valdivia_matthew@yahoo.com [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

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>A Tahoe and a 4x8 short-side trailer would be fantastic. In fact, anything would be fantastic compared to dragging it all around the property by hand, by myself, for several hours - which is what I had to do on Wednesday.
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>Matthew Valdivia, Principal
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>BRANDS de LUXE, l.l.c.
>Manufacturers Representatives
>Cellular (816)273-3665
>matthew@brandsdeluxe.org
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>On Friday, January 30, 2015 10:31 AM, "David Young youngmdavid@gmail.com [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
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>I must have missed it the first time around. I just looked at the map in the Yahoo file area and it shows the areas I anticipated. Nicely done and easy to see where they could go. Sadly I no longer have any pickup trucks, heavy trucks or large trailers. I do have a Tahoe that could pull someone else's trailer. I have a very small 4 X 8 trailer with short sides but I'm not sure it would be much use for this project.
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>I'm game for a brush hauling session. I have limited stamina and mobility but I can go for a couple of hours before I start getting in the way. 
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>On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 10:23 AM, Scott s.kranz1@comcast.net [ASKC] <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
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>David, and all, if you have looked at the Go/NoGo map created by me, please look at it and provide any comments. Darrick has reviewed it as well.
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>Date:01/30/2015 00:06 (GMT-06:00) 
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>To: ASKC@yahoogroups.com 
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>Subject: Re: [ASKC] DSS brush collection, relocation and pile construction; meeting with Mo Dept of Conservation 
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>"Be sure to get the locations approved by Darrick Gray before you create any piles."
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>Will do. During the survey, the PLC and I were working from the go/no-go map (posted in the new DSS NRC folder) provided by Scott. In the mean time, if you would like, you can have Darrick review that map and confirm Scott's guidelines.  
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>Matthew Valdivia, Principal
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>BRANDS de LUXE, l.l.c.
>Manufacturers Representatives
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>On Friday, January 30, 2015 12:01 AM, Matthew Valdivia <valdivia_matthew@yahoo.com> wrote:
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>I wasn't going to go into too much detail here or on the summary reports I posted to the file-share portion of the group because I wanted to wait for the PLC's full written report, which will be quite exhaustive. But to cover that part briefly, the Private Land Conservationist recommended what foresters and management biologists refer to as "feathered-edge structures" - "structures" being jargon for "well-planned/built piles". These consist of a strategic combination deliberately felled tree species of zero-wildlife/commercial value, natural fell, and man-made trimmings/cuttings gathered from other locations. These structures are felled/laid generally in-line with the edge contours, are 20-100 feet long and spaced roughly 100 yds apart along the edges, with the caveat that extreme care must be taken to avoid building these brush structures in very close proximity (roughly 10 feet) of any established creek banks.
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>On Thursday, January 29, 2015 11:48 PM, "David Young youngmdavid@gmail.com [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
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>Would you please plot these on a plan view of the DSS so we can see exactly where the proposed locations are? You can use Google Earth to get a pretty good map and then mark the locations on it, scan that and upload. If you don't have a scanner you could use the lat and long coordinate display feature of Google Earth to get real close. Be sure to get the locations approved by Darrick Gray before you create any piles.
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>On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 11:26 PM, Matthew Valdivia valdivia_matthew@yahoo.com [ASKC] <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
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>For those who expressed an interest in this topic, I've posted summary reports of my meeting with the Department of Conservation's Private Lands Conservationist and 1st round of brush collection, relocation and pile construction.
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>You can see the reports and the associated pictures I took in the newly created DSS NRC (natural resource conservation) folder here:
>https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/ASKC/files/DSS%20NRC/
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>I will really need help - in the form of one to three more human bodies and either a pick-up or a vehicle with a suitable trailer to complete the next round of brush collection, relocation and pile construction. If anyone would be willing to make a 1/2 day of it (perhaps before or after a night of observing?) please let me know so we can compare schedules.
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>Manufacturers Representatives
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About a week ago when I was down at the DSS taking pictures of comet Lovejoy I also took the opportunity to capture images of M42. About the same time on one of the Yahoo Astrophotography groups someone mentioned a nice video on using layer masks. Here is the link to that: Using Photoshop Layer Masks To Maximize Astronomical Data http://vimeo.com/89820224
 
 
 http://vimeo.com/89820224
 
 Using Photoshop Layer Masks To Maximize Astronomical ... http://vimeo.com/89820224 Tutorial supplement to the article in the spring 2014 edition of Amateur Astronomy Magazine. It deals with creating layer masks to maximize data from short and...


 
 View on vimeo.com http://vimeo.com/89820224
 Preview by Yahoo
 

 

 

 Although I was already familiar with using layer masks, I still learned some new tools for using layer masks. I particularly like the third type of mask that he discusses about 2/3 of the way through the video where he talks about using the brighter image (longer exposure) to create a mask. I used these techniques to process my M42 image (see link below). I've actually gone through this twice with my images. The first one came out pretty good but then I realized I had a misalignment of one or more layers resulting in double stars throughout the image. So I went through all the steps again resulting in the image linked below and in my folder in the pictures section.
 

 Here are the details:
 - Captured with a modified Canon T2i using Hyperstar (F/2, 560mm) on a CGE 1100 mount
 - Guided using PHD guiding and an Orion Guider/Guidescope
 - 16 - 120 second images, median combine, Deep Sky Stacker, 
 - 16 - 60 second images, median combine, Deep Sky Stacker
 - 16 - 30 second images, median combine, Deep Sky Stacker
 - 16 -15 second images, median combine, Deep Sky Stacker
 - 16 - 6 second images, median combine, Deep Sky Stacker
 - I applied flats to all images but only took and applied darks for the 2 minute images (to save time).
 - The stacked images for each time duration were each stretched somewhat using curves and levels.
 - Once satisfied with the individual images, I combined them in Photoshop CS2
 - I basically used a little of each of the layer masks referred to in the video. I modified the opacity of each layer to satisfy my personal tastes.
 - Once layer masks were done, aligned and flattened, I used Carboni's Local Contrast Enhancement tool.
 - I also used Noise Ninja and the Power Saturate Tool (from Martinez, I think) then a few tweaks with curves.
 - That was about it.
 

 I think you will find the video of interest. By the way, Also my video of Asteroid 2004 BL86 has been uploaded to YouTube per the suggestion of several of you fellow ASKCers. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbY_qMVVU5M) It looks better on YouTube vs Yahoo Groups due to the higher resolution copy
 

 

 Doug Spalding
 
 

 

 Link to M42 Image:
 

 This is the unofficial list of the ASKC http://tinyurl.com/pbv2ezh

 
 
 http://tinyurl.com/pbv2ezh 
 
 This is the unofficial list of the ASKC http://tinyurl.com/pbv2ezh This is the unofficial Yahoo group of the Astronomical Society of Kansas City.
 
 
 
 View on tinyurl.com http://tinyurl.com/pbv2ezh 
 Preview by Yahoo 
 
 
 

Does anyone have a copy of the Astronomical League's 1979 Convention
Proceedings from the Portland convention?

 

If so, please contact me offlist at mike.n0tu@...
<mailto:mike.n0tu@...> .

 

Gracias.

 

Mike Stewart

Doug, the youtube version of the asteroid video really looks great!  I haven't looked at the layer mask video yet but will take a look at it also.   

 Gene Williams

Thanks, Gene! 

 Doug S.
 

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 Doug, the youtube version of the asteroid video really looks great!  I haven't looked at the layer mask video yet but will take a look at it also.   

 Gene Williams

If Grant hasn't already bought this I can certainly put this to good use. Please let me know.


Thank you,


David Neuenschwander



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Need something to run a telescope? Marcia wants to sell her old computer.


Mac PowerBook G4  17" screen   10.3.9 OS
1.5 Ghz   512 ram l2 cash 512kb   167 mhz bus


Anyone interested before I Craiglist it for $75   $100 plus on ebay.





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Sorry, computer is sold and shipped.

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>Need something to run a telescope? Marcia wants to sell her old computer.
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>Mac PowerBook G4  17" screen   10.3.9 OS
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>1.5 Ghz   512 ram l2 cash 512kb   167 mhz bus
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>Anyone interested before I Craiglist it for $75   $100 plus on ebay.
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Jon, There is no telescope that is best for light polluted areas. There is only light pollution filters for your eyepieces.
If looks like you are leaning towards a Dob between 12" to 16". How giving us a list of the ones you are looking at?
A Celestron 11 is a nice scope, but you can get more aperture for the money with a dob, especially if you are only wanting to do visual work. If you are interested in photography with the scope, then the C 11 is better, but it's going to cost you all more than just the scope to make it take pictures like you see on the web. Tom J Martinez
http://tomjmartinez.blogspot.com/ 

     On Friday, January 30, 2015 2:45 PM, "Matthew Valdivia valdivia_matthew@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
   

     Jon,
My advice, for what ever it is/isn't worth, would be to wait and keep saving your pennies until you have another $500 to invest and then get an 11" Celestron EdgeHD Kit (Celestron sku# 11082)Kind regards,Matthew Valdivia, Principal
BRANDS de LUXE, l.l.c.
Manufacturers Representatives
Cellular (816)273-3665
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     On Friday, January 30, 2015 10:26 AM, "mossjon@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
   

     I am ready to upgrade my telescope equipment.  I have about $3,000 to $3,500 to work with.  

My requirements are:  

1.  Must be transportable by me alone (woman, age 50, can lift about 50 pounds max)
2.  Must fit in sedan (Pontiac Bonneville)
3.  Don't require GoTo but would prefer that feature so that the scope will track object once it's located (for observing and sketching). 
4.  Best aperture and focal length for highly light polluted area (Lansing, Kansas about a 1/2 mile south of the Lansing Correctional Facility).  

Before the end of the year, I had looked at a couple of scopes by SkyWatcher, Orion and Celestron (12-16 inch dobs with tracking).  

What are your thoughts?  

Thanks, 

Jon Moss
 

  

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At one time I was interested in astrophotography but unless I win the lottery (and quit having my photographic equipment stolen while on vacation), I probably won't be doing any of snapshotting any time soon.  

I am leaning towards the dobs.  My concern is there size and weight.  I want to try my hand at sketching (instead of photography) so I really need tracking as it will take me some practice time to get my sketching up to par.  

Filters for light pollution:  I will put that on my accessories list to also include new/better eyepieces. 

I will get a list of the scopes I was looking at and post them here over the weekend. 

Thanks, 

Jon

It might be worth your time to join Cloudy Nights and keep an eye out there
for a used telescope.

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On Sat, Jan 31, 2015 at 8:21 AM, mossjon@... [ASKC] <
ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

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>
> At one time I was interested in astrophotography but unless I win the
> lottery (and quit having my photographic equipment stolen while on
> vacation), I probably won't be doing any of snapshotting any time soon.
>
> I am leaning towards the dobs.  My concern is there size and weight.  I
> want to try my hand at sketching (instead of photography) so I really need
> tracking as it will take me some practice time to get my sketching up to
> par.
>
> Filters for light pollution:  I will put that on my accessories list to
> also include new/better eyepieces.
>
> I will get a list of the scopes I was looking at and post them here over
> the weekend.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jon
>  
>

Jon, you need to get together with Kathy Machin and see her set up her 16" Dob. They come apart in enough pieces that the weight should not be a factor. Here is the weights for Starmaster telescopes:http://www.starmastertelescopes.com/truss-scopespecs.htm
Rick Singmaster, who lives and works in Arcadia, KS, makes high quality, top of the line telescopes, so the cost is higher than your budget, but the optics are the best you can get. Just ask ASKC members who own them. Tom J Martinez
http://tomjmartinez.blogspot.com/ 

     On Saturday, January 31, 2015 9:15 AM, "David Young youngmdavid@gmail.com [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
   

     It might be worth your time to join Cloudy Nights and keep an eye out there for a used telescope.
Sent via Gmail from David Young
On Sat, Jan 31, 2015 at 8:21 AM, mossjon@... [ASKC] <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

     At one time I was interested in astrophotography but unless I win the lottery (and quit having my photographic equipment stolen while on vacation), I probably won't be doing any of snapshotting any time soon.  

I am leaning towards the dobs.  My concern is there size and weight.  I want to try my hand at sketching (instead of photography) so I really need tracking as it will take me some practice time to get my sketching up to par.  

Filters for light pollution:  I will put that on my accessories list to also include new/better eyepieces. 

I will get a list of the scopes I was looking at and post them here over the weekend. 

Thanks, 

Jon   

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Except Rick retired last year and is no longer making new scopes. They do come up for sale every once in a while.

We have quite a few Starmaster owners in the ASKC. We all love them.

-Scott
20-inch Starmaster owner since mid-2000!


Sent from inside the TARDIS

<div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: "Tom Martinez zenitrammot@yahoo.com [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> </div><div>Date:01/31/2015  12:08  (GMT-06:00) </div><div>To: ASKC@yahoogroups.com </div><div>Subject: Re: [ASKC] Telescope Recommendation(s) </div><div>
</div>Jon, you need to get together with Kathy Machin and see her set up her 16" Dob. They come apart in enough pieces that the weight should not be a factor. Here is the weights for Starmaster telescopes:
http://www.starmastertelescopes.com/truss-scopespecs.htm
Rick Singmaster, who lives and works in Arcadia, KS, makes high quality, top of the line telescopes, so the cost is higher than your budget, but the optics are the best you can get. Just ask ASKC members who own them.
 
Tom J Martinez 
http://tomjmartinez.blogspot.com/


On Saturday, January 31, 2015 9:15 AM, "David Young youngmdavid@gmail.com [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:


 
It might be worth your time to join Cloudy Nights and keep an eye out there for a used telescope.

Sent via Gmail from David Young

On Sat, Jan 31, 2015 at 8:21 AM, mossjon@yahoo.com [ASKC] <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
 
At one time I was interested in astrophotography but unless I win the lottery (and quit having my photographic equipment stolen while on vacation), I probably won't be doing any of snapshotting any time soon.  

I am leaning towards the dobs.  My concern is there size and weight.  I want to try my hand at sketching (instead of photography) so I really need tracking as it will take me some practice time to get my sketching up to par.  

Filters for light pollution:  I will put that on my accessories list to also include new/better eyepieces. 

I will get a list of the scopes I was looking at and post them here over the weekend. 

Thanks, 

Jon

Wow, I didn't know he had retired. I heard he was thinking about it. Good for him. He's a hard working man. Tom J Martinez
http://tomjmartinez.blogspot.com/ 

     On Saturday, January 31, 2015 12:40 PM, "Scott s.kranz1@comcast.net [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
   

     Except Rick retired last year and is no longer making new scopes. They do come up for sale every once in a while.
We have quite a few Starmaster owners in the ASKC. We all love them.
-Scott20-inch Starmaster owner since mid-2000!

Sent from inside the TARDIS

-------- Original message --------From: "Tom Martinez zenitrammot@... [ASKC]" Date:01/31/2015 12:08 (GMT-06:00) To: ASKC@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [ASKC] Telescope Recommendation(s) 
   Jon, you need to get together with Kathy Machin and see her set up her 16" Dob. They come apart in enough pieces that the weight should not be a factor. Here is the weights for Starmaster telescopes:http://www.starmastertelescopes.com/truss-scopespecs.htm
Rick Singmaster, who lives and works in Arcadia, KS, makes high quality, top of the line telescopes, so the cost is higher than your budget, but the optics are the best you can get. Just ask ASKC members who own them. Tom J Martinez
http://tomjmartinez.blogspot.com/ 

     On Saturday, January 31, 2015 9:15 AM, "David Young youngmdavid@gmail.com [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
   

     It might be worth your time to join Cloudy Nights and keep an eye out there for a used telescope.
Sent via Gmail from David Young
On Sat, Jan 31, 2015 at 8:21 AM, mossjon@... [ASKC] <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

     At one time I was interested in astrophotography but unless I win the lottery (and quit having my photographic equipment stolen while on vacation), I probably won't be doing any of snapshotting any time soon.  

I am leaning towards the dobs.  My concern is there size and weight.  I want to try my hand at sketching (instead of photography) so I really need tracking as it will take me some practice time to get my sketching up to par.  

Filters for light pollution:  I will put that on my accessories list to also include new/better eyepieces. 

I will get a list of the scopes I was looking at and post them here over the weekend. 

Thanks, 

Jon   

  

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I love my 8" sct, but I believe an 11" sct would really be pushing the stated 'weight lifting' limit.  I would definitely consider one of the collapsible tube SkyWatcher goto scopes for more aperture. 

 Grant Miller
 Warrensburg

Great image of M42 Doug. This is one guy that requires many different exposures and layering to put together. You've done a marvelous job. Tom J Martinez
http://tomjmartinez.blogspot.com/ 

     On Friday, January 30, 2015 9:41 PM, "boilerhawk@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
   

     Thanks, Gene!
Doug S.


---In ASKC@yahoogroups.com, <genogeno1@...> wrote :

Doug, the youtube version of the asteroid video really looks great!  I haven't looked at the layer mask video yet but will take a look at it also.  
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Thanks, Tom. I intentionally over saturated it a bit because my family was more impressed with that version. I mainly wanted to share the layers video. I posted this originally to our imaging group but got no response after 24 hours so posted here too. 

 Doug
 

---In ASKC@yahoogroups.com, <zenitrammot@...> wrote :

 Great image of M42 Doug. This is one guy that requires many different exposures and layering to put together. You've done a marvelous job.
 
  
 Tom J Martinez 
http://tomjmartinez.blogspot.com/

 


 On Friday, January 30, 2015 9:41 PM, "boilerhawk@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
 
 

   Thanks, Gene!
 

 Doug S.
 

---In ASKC@yahoogroups.com, <genogeno1@...> wrote :

 Doug, the youtube version of the asteroid video really looks great!  I haven't looked at the layer mask video yet but will take a look at it also.   

 Gene Williams





 


 

Yeah, the Imaging Group is pretty much dead. You would think as many imagers as we have in the ASKC there would be more chatter, especially from beginners. Of course there is a ton of information on the web. You just have to google it. Tom J Martinez
http://tomjmartinez.blogspot.com/ 

     On Saturday, January 31, 2015 11:40 PM, "boilerhawk@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
   

     Thanks, Tom. I intentionally over saturated it a bit because my family was more impressed with that version. I mainly wanted to share the layers video. I posted this originally to our imaging group but got no response after 24 hours so posted here too.
Doug


---In ASKC@yahoogroups.com, <zenitrammot@...> wrote :

Great image of M42 Doug. This is one guy that requires many different exposures and layering to put together. You've done a marvelous job. Tom J Martinez
http://tomjmartinez.blogspot.com/

  On Friday, January 30, 2015 9:41 PM, "boilerhawk@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
  

 Thanks, Gene!
Doug S.


---In ASKC@yahoogroups.com, <genogeno1@...> wrote :

Doug, the youtube version of the asteroid video really looks great!  I haven't looked at the layer mask video yet but will take a look at it also.  
Gene Williams

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Hey, you guys!! Maybe you should write up an item about the imaging group?
Lots of new members (and old ones too) may not know about or think about
the group? Just a thought from the always-looking-for items CM editor
;-)....
Marcia

On Sat, Jan 31, 2015 at 11:49 PM, Tom Martinez zenitrammot@yahoo.com [ASKC]
<ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

>
>
> Yeah, the Imaging Group is pretty much dead. You would think as many
> imagers as we have in the ASKC there would be more chatter, especially from
> beginners. Of course there is a ton of information on the web. You just
> have to google it.
>
> Tom J Martinez
> http://tomjmartinez.blogspot.com/
>
>
>   On Saturday, January 31, 2015 11:40 PM, "boilerhawk@... [ASKC]" <
> ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
>
>
>
>  Thanks, Tom. I intentionally over saturated it a bit because my family
> was more impressed with that version. I mainly wanted to share the layers
> video. I posted this originally to our imaging group but got no response
> after 24 hours so posted here too.
>
> Doug
>
>
> ---In ASKC@yahoogroups.com, <zenitrammot@...> wrote :
>
> Great image of M42 Doug. This is one guy that requires many different
> exposures and layering to put together. You've done a marvelous job.
>
> Tom J Martinez
> http://tomjmartinez.blogspot.com/
>
>
>  On Friday, January 30, 2015 9:41 PM, "boilerhawk@... [ASKC]" <
> ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> Thanks, Gene!
>
> Doug S.
>
>
> ---In ASKC@yahoogroups.com, <genogeno1@...> wrote :
>
> Doug, the youtube version of the asteroid video really looks great!  I
> haven't looked at the layer mask video yet but will take a look at it also.
>
>
> Gene Williams
>
>
>
>
>    
>

I found this link on the Astronomical Leauge's web site. I like the idea of
showing what a telescope is seeing in the classroom. I have a Malencam but
never got around to actually trying out. If anyone is interested in using
it let me know

Take a look at this club's promotional video.

*http://youtu.be/ <http://youtu.be/>2PRk_HXGapk*





Sent via Gmail from David Young

What an impressive club. The production of the video is very professional.Dave, I couldn't get your link to work and had to use this one:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PRk_HXGapk&feature=youtu.be
 Tom J Martinez
http://tomjmartinez.blogspot.com/ 

     On Sunday, February 1, 2015 2:21 PM, "David Young youngmdavid@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
   

     I found this link on the Astronomical Leauge's web site. I like the idea of showing what a telescope is seeing in the classroom. I have a Malencam but never got around to actually trying out. If anyone is interested in using it let me know
Take a look at this club's promotional video.
http://youtu.be/2PRk_HXGapk




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It just so happens that  the Minnesota Astronomical Society has tentatively
agreed to be  the host society for ALCON 2018.  It should be a good one.

Carroll Iorg
Media Officer & Convention Coordinator
Astronomical League, Inc.
9201 Ward Parkway, #100
Kansas City. MO. 64114
www.astroleague.org
816 333 7759
carroll.iorg@...
On Feb 1, 2015 2:55 PM, "Tom Martinez zenitrammot@... [ASKC]" <
ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

>
>
> What an impressive club. The production of the video is very professional.
> Dave, I couldn't get your link to work and had to use this one:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PRk_HXGapk&feature=youtu.be
>
> Tom J Martinez
> http://tomjmartinez.blogspot.com/
>
>
>   On Sunday, February 1, 2015 2:21 PM, "David Young youngmdavid@...
> [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
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>  I found this link on the Astronomical Leauge's web site. I like the idea
> of showing what a telescope is seeing in the classroom. I have a Malencam
> but never got around to actually trying out. If anyone is interested in
> using it let me know
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> Take a look at this club's promotional video.
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> *http://youtu.be/ <http://youtu.be/>2PRk_HXGapk*
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> Sent via Gmail from David Young
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Imaging Group??? I'm intrigued. 

Do they not have ALCON in 2016? I didn't see a city listed.

Alcon 2016 is being held  in Washington, DC.

Carroll Iorg
  Media Officer & Convention                   Coordinator
Astronomical League
9201 Ward Parkway, Suite #100
Kansas City MO  64114
816 333 7759
carroll.iorg@...
www.astroleague.org
On Feb 1, 2015 5:10 PM, "melindaslater@... [ASKC]" <
ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

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> Do they not have ALCON in 2016? I didn't see a city listed.
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Buy gas in the morning. Oil workers are going on strike and prices will
likely rise.

Sent via Gmail from David Young

Sound advice, thanks David!



> On Feb 1, 2015, at 10:53 PM, David Young youngmdavid@... [ASKC] <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
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> Buy gas in the morning. Oil workers are going on strike and prices will likely rise.
> 
> Sent via Gmail from David Young
> 

Basement repairs have an occasional side benefit. I found an old Radio
Shack 40 channel CB while clearing out the west wall last night.

Anyone need a free CB radio?

Sent via Gmail from David Young

I'll take it
On Feb 2, 2015 11:13 AM, "David Young youngmdavid@... [ASKC]" <
ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

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> Basement repairs have an occasional side benefit. I found an old Radio
> Shack 40 channel CB while clearing out the west wall last night.
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> Anyone need a free CB radio?
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> Sent via Gmail from David Young
>   
>

Score!  You're the lucky caller....er, response. I'll toss in the trunk so
I'll have it with me the next time we cross paths. That means I'll take a
different car for sure.

Sent via Gmail from David Young

On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 11:24 AM, 'starman621od .' kings621@... [ASKC]
<ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

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> I'll take it
> On Feb 2, 2015 11:13 AM, "David Young youngmdavid@... [ASKC]" <
> ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
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>> Basement repairs have an occasional side benefit. I found an old Radio
>> Shack 40 channel CB while clearing out the west wall last night.
>>
>> Anyone need a free CB radio?
>>
>> Sent via Gmail from David Young
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>

This Saturday is Teacher Resource Day at UMKC.  Info below.  I've upload a zipped file "Teach Resource Day" to the files area with the handouts out supplied to be put on the cd all visitors will receive.  If you are attending to help at the ASKC desk, please take a look and get a little familiar with them.  There are several hands-on activities good for all ages.   I will have the supplies on hand for them at our table.  About 300 teachers from the region attend.  Our table should be the first one by the door that everyone enters.  Oh yeah!  This isn't by chance.  I will have a C8 with a solar filter and a PST for viewing on the balcony or roof area.  The event is 0900 to noon.  I should be there around 0745 after dropping Rita off at work.   I also just uploaded a map showing an "X" for unloading/loading only and a red line to the parking garage.  Park on the fifth (5th) level. Displays for table:Galaxy SortSolar System on a register tapePlanisphere makingLens MagicPowell/Warko SchedulesCandy? (Milky Ways)Computer/LCD display with Stellariumand maybe more. Joe __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________   Hello,  Thank you for agreeing to be a part of Teacher Resource Day this coming Saturday, February 7th!   A few things to know for the day! The event will start at 9am and run till 12 (noon) at UMKC Student Center at 51st and Cherry! In room 401 on the top floor of the Union. WE will provide table(s) for your organization. There is a unloading area right to the North of the Union, but parking is prohibited there. So you may unload there, take your stuff up to Room 401 then park your car in the Cherry Street parking. If you have questions, regarding unloading please let me know!   UMKC Student Union, located at Cherry and E. 51st St.  Kansas City, MO.  A map of UMKC can be found at http://www.umkc.edu/maps/documents/volker_maps/UMKC_Volker_campus.pdf  Please park in the Cherry Street Parking structure on Level 5. (It is free on Saturday’s) There is a bridge crosswalk to the Student Union!    We will be arriving around 7:45 am to begin set up, you may arrive that early as well to get set up! Teachers will be arrived around 9am. Any questions, please let me know! Otherwise I will see you on Saturday morning!     Thank you and have a great day!  Shea O’Riley _______________________________________________________________________________

Joseph S. Wright

Cell Phone:  (913) 208-0924

Operations Manager, Warkoczewski Public Observatory (WPO)  
  University of Missouri-Kansas City

Vice-President, Astronomical Society of Kansas City
Solar System Ambassador, NASA/JPL Volunteer Program
Girl Scouts of NE Kansas-NW Missouri  Aerospace/Astronomy/Weather S.T.E.M. Specialist

Hello,


This email message is a notification to let you know that
a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the ASKC
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​Tom Martinez, Dave Lane, everyone,

I think you will like this one. 3 minutes.  Looking forward to your stuff
at Gottlieb Saturday.​

http://vimeo.com/116596945

​Grant Miller​

that is beautiful.....

very, very beautiful.  thank you.
       From: "Grant Miller mllrgrnt@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com>
 To: ASKC on yahoogroups <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> 
 Sent: Monday, February 2, 2015 1:40 PM
 Subject: [ASKC] Illusion of Lights: A Journey into the Unseen on Vimeo
   
    ​Tom Martinez, Dave Lane, everyone,
I think you will like this one. 3 minutes.  Looking forward to your stuff at Gottlieb Saturday.​
http://vimeo.com/116596945
​Grant Miller​
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Very nice!

Carroll Iorg
 On Feb 2, 2015 2:11 PM, "richard schoenberger rrschoenberger@...
[ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

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>
> very, very beautiful.  thank you.
>
>  ------------------------------
>  *From:* "Grant Miller mllrgrnt@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com>
> *To:* ASKC on yahoogroups <ASKC@yahoogroups.com>
> *Sent:* Monday, February 2, 2015 1:40 PM
> *Subject:* [ASKC] Illusion of Lights: A Journey into the Unseen on Vimeo
>
>
>  ​Tom Martinez, Dave Lane, everyone,
>
> I think you will like this one. 3 minutes.  Looking forward to your stuff
> at Gottlieb Saturday.​
>
> http://vimeo.com/116596945
>
> ​Grant Miller​
>
>
>
>   
>

You may find this interesting:

What's the next window into our universe? http://www.ted.com/talks/andrew_connolly_what_s_the_next_window_into_our_universe?utm_source=newsletter_daily&utm_campaign=daily&utm_medium=email&utm_content=button__2014-09-16#t-454702 
 
 http://www.ted.com/talks/andrew_connolly_what_s_the_next_window_into_our_universe?utm_source=newsletter_daily&utm_campaign=daily&utm_medium=email&utm_content=button__2014-09-16#t-454702 
 
 What's the next window into our universe? http://www.ted.com/talks/andrew_connolly_what_s_the_next_window_into_our_universe?utm_source=newsletter_daily&utm_campaign=daily&utm_medium=email&utm_content=button__2014-09-16#t-454702 Big Data is everywhere — even the skies. In an informative talk, astronomer Andrew Connolly shows how large amounts of data are being collected about our univ...
 
 
 
 View on www.ted.com http://www.ted.com/talks/andrew_connolly_what_s_the_next_window_into_our_universe?utm_source=newsletter_daily&utm_campaign=daily&utm_medium=email&utm_content=button__2014-09-16#t-454702 
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Pretty cool stuff!

Mark
 

 

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Yeah that was pretty neat. I was surprised by the amount of nebula they captured in orion! 

     On Monday, February 2, 2015 4:24 PM, "'alehman@....com' alehman@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
   

     Did anyone catch the timeout shot of the night sky behind a saguaro cactus? Reminded me of some photos by our members.
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Are you getting tired of the dull winter? Ready to get out observing soon? Members who have been around a while already know where I am heading with this. There have been quite a few new faces that have joined lately, so I figured that I would explain what is coming just around the corner. 
  
You all know the story of Charles Messier and his hunt for comets and fame. You also may know that he got tired of being confused by previously observed fuzzy patches that tricked him into thinking that he discovered a new comet. Tired of (re)discovering these objects over and over again, he made a list of these objects that were not to be confused as comets. 110 of these non-comets made his catalog. It was called the Messier Catalog. 
  
Today, most amateurs start their personal observing careers by finding and logging these objects because they are some of the brightest (ok.... maybe not all of them) and many of the most beautiful objects in the sky. But did you know that during late March through early April, you can see the entire catalog of 110 objects in a single night? Yes, it is possible! And in astronomy clubs across the world, members participate in a Messier Marathon on the New Moon during this time. Start in the west after sunset and move across the sky, working east, until sunrise. 
  
Traditionally, the Messier Marathon pits one observer against the other, hunting objects down by manually moving their scopes around, using a star atlas and their skills. One night equals one shot... all by yourself. No do-overs. 
  
In the ASKC, we like to have a little more fun though. We will be holding our annual Messier Marathon at the club's Dark Sky Site on the weekend of Friday, March 20 - Sunday, March 22. 
  
Set a goal to observe as many Messiers as you want. 10, 20, 50, or the entire list. Use your GO-TO telescope. Share views with a friend and you both can log it. Combine both Friday night and Saturday night on to one final list. Or just come out to enjoy the dark skies and visit with friends under the stars. JUST COME OUT! For most of us, the marathon is more of a test to see if you can stay awake all night. Bring food, snacks, and warm drinks to share. Remember we have a building where we could have an all-night buffet. Rumor is that astronomers LOVE Oreos (Double Stuf is even better!). Bring a lawn chair and watch for meteors. Test out some new equipment received for Christmas. Work on a different observing project, or start a new one. 
  
This is mid-March so be aware of extreme temperatures both high and low. In the past 20 years, we've had shorts and t-shirt weather during the night. And we've also had hard bitter frost. In this part of the country, you can never be sure. Bring plenty of clothes to layer in case of cold. 
  
Be sure to arrive with plenty of time for setting up before sunset. A DSS veteran's helpful hint: the further west you set up in the observing field, the better. 
  
I will have Marathon forms for you to fill out in the field. Just get them back to me before you leave and you'll be getting an official ASKC Messier Marathon certificate whether you found 4 or 104 Messiers. 
  
I will most likely give a little announcement at the February General Meeting just as a reminder. If we have clear skies, I hope to see a lot of you out on the observing field! 
  
Dark Skies to you! 
-Scott 

Thanks Grant. Very nice.

Gary

On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 1:40 PM, Grant Miller mllrgrnt@... [ASKC] <
ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

>
>
> ​Tom Martinez, Dave Lane, everyone,
>
> I think you will like this one. 3 minutes.  Looking forward to your stuff
> at Gottlieb Saturday.​
>
> http://vimeo.com/116596945
>
> ​Grant Miller​
>
>  
>



-- 
Clear skies,

Gary Pittman

Are we doing the chili cook off again this year? 
  
Jim 

----- Original Message -----

From: "s.kranz1@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@...m> 
To: "ASKC" <askc@yahoogroups.com> 
Sent: Monday, February 2, 2015 8:45:48 PM 
Subject: [ASKC] Time for the Messier Hunt is approaching 



Are you getting tired of the dull winter? Ready to get out observing soon? Members who have been around a while already know where I am heading with this. There have been quite a few new faces that have joined lately, so I figured that I would explain what is coming just around the corner. 
  
You all know the story of Charles Messier and his hunt for comets and fame. You also may know that he got tired of being confused by previously observed fuzzy patches that tricked him into thinking that he discovered a new comet. Tired of (re)discovering these objects over and over again, he made a list of these objects that were not to be confused as comets. 110 of these non-comets made his catalog. It was called the Messier Catalog. 
  
Today, most amateurs start their personal observing careers by finding and logging these objects because they are some of the brightest (ok.... maybe not all of them) and many of the most beautiful objects in the sky. But did you know that during late March through early April, you can see the entire catalog of 110 objects in a single night? Yes, it is possible! And in astronomy clubs across the world, members participate in a Messier Marathon on the New Moon during this time. Start in the west after sunset and move across the sky, working east, until sunrise. 
  
Traditionally, the Messier Marathon pits one observer against the other, hunting objects down by manually moving their scopes around, using a star atlas and their skills. One night equals one shot... all by yourself. No do-overs. 
  
In the ASKC, we like to have a little more fun though. We will be holding our annual Messier Marathon at the club's Dark Sky Site on the weekend of Friday, March 20 - Sunday, March 22. 
  
Set a goal to observe as many Messiers as you want. 10, 20, 50, or the entire list. Use your GO-TO telescope. Share views with a friend and you both can log it. Combine both Friday night and Saturday night on to one final list. Or just come out to enjoy the dark skies and visit with friends under the stars. JUST COME OUT! For most of us, the marathon is more of a test to see if you can stay awake all night. Bring food, snacks, and warm drinks to share. Remember we have a building where we could have an all-night buffet. Rumor is that astronomers LOVE Oreos (Double Stuf is even better!). Bring a lawn chair and watch for meteors. Test out some new equipment received for Christmas. Work on a different observing project, or start a new one. 
  
This is mid-March so be aware of extreme temperatures both high and low. In the past 20 years, we've had shorts and t-shirt weather during the night. And we've also had hard bitter frost. In this part of the country, you can never be sure. Bring plenty of clothes to layer in case of cold. 
  
Be sure to arrive with plenty of time for setting up before sunset. A DSS veteran's helpful hint: the further west you set up in the observing field, the better. 
  
I will have Marathon forms for you to fill out in the field. Just get them back to me before you leave and you'll be getting an official ASKC Messier Marathon certificate whether you found 4 or 104 Messiers. 
  
I will most likely give a little announcement at the February General Meeting just as a reminder. If we have clear skies, I hope to see a lot of you out on the observing field! 
  
Dark Skies to you! 
-Scott 


 

Very cool indeed. That took a lot of time and effort for 3 1/2 minutes. I loved the part where the sky is reflected on a mountain lake and a fireball strikes leaving a smoke trail. Thanks for the heads up on this one Grant. I've saved this one to my collection to ooh and awe later! Tom J Martinez
http://tomjmartinez.blogspot.com/ 

     On Monday, February 2, 2015 8:50 PM, "Gary Pittman yrag1919@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
   

     Thanks Grant. Very nice.
Gary
On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 1:40 PM, Grant Miller mllrgrnt@... [ASKC] <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

     ​Tom Martinez, Dave Lane, everyone,
I think you will like this one. 3 minutes.  Looking forward to your stuff at Gottlieb Saturday.​
http://vimeo.com/116596945
​Grant Miller​
   



-- 
Clear skies,
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I need to go back and take another look at that video. I saw the smoking
trail but didn't catch the fireball itself.

PS  Don't any of us ever sleep?

Sent via Gmail from David Young

On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 3:11 AM, Tom Martinez zenitrammot@... [ASKC] <
ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

>
>
> Very cool indeed. That took a lot of time and effort for 3 1/2 minutes. I
> loved the part where the sky is reflected on a mountain lake and a fireball
> strikes leaving a smoke trail. Thanks for the heads up on this one Grant.
> I've saved this one to my collection to ooh and awe later!
>
> Tom J Martinez
> http://tomjmartinez.blogspot.com/
>
>
>   On Monday, February 2, 2015 8:50 PM, "Gary Pittman yrag1919@...
> [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
>
>
>
>  Thanks Grant. Very nice.
>
> Gary
>
> On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 1:40 PM, Grant Miller mllrgrnt@... [ASKC] <
> ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
>
>
>  ​Tom Martinez, Dave Lane, everyone,
>
> I think you will like this one. 3 minutes.  Looking forward to your stuff
> at Gottlieb Saturday.​
>
> http://vimeo.com/116596945
>
> ​Grant Miller​
>
>
>
>
> --
> Clear skies,
>
> Gary Pittman
>
>
>    
>

Make it and they will come.

We had some good chilis last year. And some great homemade apple cider i also remember. Wasn't there a crockpot of tomatoe soup also.

Any and all food will be appreciated!


Sent from inside the TARDIS

<div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: "suenjim@comcast.net [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> </div><div>Date:02/02/2015  21:58  (GMT-06:00) </div><div>To: ASKC <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> </div><div>Subject: Re: [ASKC] Time for the Messier Hunt is approaching </div><div>
</div>Are we doing the chili cook off again this year? 
 
Jim

From: "s.kranz1@comcast.net [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com>
To: "ASKC" <askc@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, February 2, 2015 8:45:48 PM
Subject: [ASKC] Time for the Messier Hunt is approaching



Are you getting tired of the dull winter? Ready to get out observing soon? Members who have been around a while already know where I am heading with this. There have been quite a few new faces that have joined lately, so I figured that I would explain what is coming just around the corner.
 
You all know the story of Charles Messier and his hunt for comets and fame. You also may know that he got tired of being confused by previously observed fuzzy patches that tricked him into thinking that he discovered a new comet. Tired of (re)discovering these objects over and over again, he made a list of these objects that were not to be confused as comets. 110 of these non-comets made his catalog. It was called the Messier Catalog.
 
Today, most amateurs start their personal observing careers by finding and logging these objects because they are some of the brightest (ok.... maybe not all of them) and many of the most beautiful objects in the sky. But did you know that during late March through early April, you can see the entire catalog of 110 objects in a single night? Yes, it is possible! And in astronomy clubs across the world, members participate in a Messier Marathon on the New Moon during this time. Start in the west after sunset and move across the sky, working east, until sunrise.
 
Traditionally, the Messier Marathon pits one observer against the other, hunting objects down by manually moving their scopes around, using a star atlas and their skills. One night equals one shot... all by yourself. No do-overs.
 
In the ASKC, we like to have a little more fun though. We will be holding our annual Messier Marathon at the club's Dark Sky Site on the weekend of Friday, March 20 - Sunday, March 22.
 
Set a goal to observe as many Messiers as you want. 10, 20, 50, or the entire list. Use your GO-TO telescope. Share views with a friend and you both can log it. Combine both Friday night and Saturday night on to one final list. Or just come out to enjoy the dark skies and visit with friends under the stars. JUST COME OUT! For most of us, the marathon is more of a test to see if you can stay awake all night. Bring food, snacks, and warm drinks to share. Remember we have a building where we could have an all-night buffet. Rumor is that astronomers LOVE Oreos (Double Stuf is even better!). Bring a lawn chair and watch for meteors. Test out some new equipment received for Christmas. Work on a different observing project, or start a new one.
 
This is mid-March so be aware of extreme temperatures both high and low. In the past 20 years, we've had shorts and t-shirt weather during the night. And we've also had hard bitter frost. In this part of the country, you can never be sure. Bring plenty of clothes to layer in case of cold.
 
Be sure to arrive with plenty of time for setting up before sunset. A DSS veteran's helpful hint: the further west you set up in the observing field, the better.
 
I will have Marathon forms for you to fill out in the field. Just get them back to me before you leave and you'll be getting an official ASKC Messier Marathon certificate whether you found 4 or 104 Messiers.
 
I will most likely give a little announcement at the February General Meeting just as a reminder. If we have clear skies, I hope to see a lot of you out on the observing field!
 
Dark Skies to you!
-Scott

New to the Messier Marathon here. Is this sort of like the HOA Star Party in that you can wander, or does most everyone bring a telescope? What are the logistical details?

Best,
Sophia
> On Feb 2, 2015, at 8:45 PM, s.kranz1@comcast.net [ASKC] <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> Are you getting tired of the dull winter? Ready to get out observing soon? Members who have been around a while already know where I am heading with this. There have been quite a few new faces that have joined lately, so I figured that I would explain what is coming just around the corner.
>  
> You all know the story of Charles Messier and his hunt for comets and fame. You also may know that he got tired of being confused by previously observed fuzzy patches that tricked him into thinking that he discovered a new comet. Tired of (re)discovering these objects over and over again, he made a list of these objects that were not to be confused as comets. 110 of these non-comets made his catalog. It was called the Messier Catalog.
>  
> Today, most amateurs start their personal observing careers by finding and logging these objects because they are some of the brightest (ok.... maybe not all of them) and many of the most beautiful objects in the sky. But did you know that during late March through early April, you can see the entire catalog of 110 objects in a single night? Yes, it is possible! And in astronomy clubs across the world, members participate in a Messier Marathon on the New Moon during this time. Start in the west after sunset and move across the sky, working east, until sunrise.
>  
> Traditionally, the Messier Marathon pits one observer against the other, hunting objects down by manually moving their scopes around, using a star atlas and their skills. One night equals one shot... all by yourself. No do-overs.
>  
> In the ASKC, we like to have a little more fun though. We will be holding our annual Messier Marathon at the club's Dark Sky Site on the weekend of Friday, March 20 - Sunday, March 22.
>  
> Set a goal to observe as many Messiers as you want. 10, 20, 50, or the entire list. Use your GO-TO telescope. Share views with a friend and you both can log it. Combine both Friday night and Saturday night on to one final list. Or just come out to enjoy the dark skies and visit with friends under the stars. JUST COME OUT! For most of us, the marathon is more of a test to see if you can stay awake all night. Bring food, snacks, and warm drinks to share. Remember we have a building where we could have an all-night buffet. Rumor is that astronomers LOVE Oreos (Double Stuf is even better!). Bring a lawn chair and watch for meteors. Test out some new equipment received for Christmas. Work on a different observing project, or start a new one.
>  
> This is mid-March so be aware of extreme temperatures both high and low. In the past 20 years, we've had shorts and t-shirt weather during the night. And we've also had hard bitter frost. In this part of the country, you can never be sure. Bring plenty of clothes to layer in case of cold.
>  
> Be sure to arrive with plenty of time for setting up before sunset. A DSS veteran's helpful hint: the further west you set up in the observing field, the better.
>  
> I will have Marathon forms for you to fill out in the field. Just get them back to me before you leave and you'll be getting an official ASKC Messier Marathon certificate whether you found 4 or 104 Messiers.
>  
> I will most likely give a little announcement at the February General Meeting just as a reminder. If we have clear skies, I hope to see a lot of you out on the observing field!
>  
> Dark Skies to you!
> -Scott
> 
> 

I am bringing a large crock of homemade chili.   r. schoenberger
       From: "Scott s.kranz1@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com>
 To: askc <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> 
 Sent: Tuesday, February 3, 2015 6:14 AM
 Subject: Re: [ASKC] Time for the Messier Hunt is approaching
   
    Make it and they will come.
We had some good chilis last year. And some great homemade apple cider i also remember. Wasn't there a crockpot of tomatoe soup also.
Any and all food will be appreciated!

Sent from inside the TARDIS

-------- Original message --------From: "suenjim@... [ASKC]" Date:02/02/2015 21:58 (GMT-06:00) 

To: ASKC Subject: Re: [ASKC] Time for the Messier Hunt is approaching 
   Are we doing the chili cook off again this year? 
 Jim
From: "s.kranz1@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com>
To: "ASKC" <askc@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, February 2, 2015 8:45:48 PM
Subject: [ASKC] Time for the Messier Hunt is approaching



Are you getting tired of the dull winter? Ready to get out observing soon? Members who have been around a while already know where I am heading with this. There have been quite a few new faces that have joined lately, so I figured that I would explain what is coming just around the corner. You all know the story of Charles Messier and his hunt for comets and fame. You also may know that he got tired of being confused by previously observed fuzzy patches that tricked him into thinking that he discovered a new comet. Tired of (re)discovering these objects over and over again, he made a list of these objects that were not to be confused as comets. 110 of these non-comets made his catalog. It was called the Messier Catalog. Today, most amateurs start their personal observing careers by finding and logging these objects because they are some of the brightest (ok.... maybe not all of them) and many of the most beautiful objects in the sky. But did you know that during late March through early April, you can see the entire catalog of 110 objects in a single night? Yes, it is possible! And in astronomy clubs across the world, members participate in a Messier Marathon on the New Moon during this time. Start in the west after sunset and move across the sky, working east, until sunrise. Traditionally, the Messier Marathon pits one observer against the other, hunting objects down by manually moving their scopes around, using a star atlas and their skills. One night equals one shot... all by yourself. No do-overs. In the ASKC, we like to have a little more fun though. We will be holding our annual Messier Marathon at the club's Dark Sky Site on the weekend of Friday, March 20 - Sunday, March 22. Set a goal to observe as many Messiers as you want. 10, 20, 50, or the entire list. Use your GO-TO telescope. Share views with a friend and you both can log it. Combine both Friday night and Saturday night on to one final list. Or just come out to enjoy the dark skies and visit with friends under the stars. JUST COME OUT! For most of us, the marathon is more of a test to see if you can stay awake all night. Bring food, snacks, and warm drinks to share. Remember we have a building where we could have an all-night buffet. Rumor is that astronomers LOVE Oreos (Double Stuf is even better!). Bring a lawn chair and watch for meteors. Test out some new equipment received for Christmas. Work on a different observing project, or start a new one. This is mid-March so be aware of extreme temperatures both high and low. In the past 20 years, we've had shorts and t-shirt weather during the night. And we've also had hard bitter frost. In this part of the country, you can never be sure. Bring plenty of clothes to layer in case of cold. Be sure to arrive with plenty of time for setting up before sunset. A DSS veteran's helpful hint: the further west you set up in the observing field, the better. I will have Marathon forms for you to fill out in the field. Just get them back to me before you leave and you'll be getting an official ASKC Messier Marathon certificate whether you found 4 or 104 Messiers. I will most likely give a little announcement at the February General Meeting just as a reminder. If we have clear skies, I hope to see a lot of you out on the observing field! Dark Skies to you!-Scott


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Pretty much all New Moon weekends are like a mini-HOASP. Members usually tend to do more serious observing, but no one is going to throw you out for asking for a peek.

Now mind you, at star parties with lots of new observers, we tend to look at the more bright glamorous stuff. On a normal new moon weekend you are more likely to find me hunting down a 16th mag edge-on galaxy, or an averted vision faint blue point of light that is a quasar 12.5 billion LY away.

Bring a lounging lawn chair, blanket, and binos, if nothing else.

The only thing different about this star party is that some observers may be seeing Messiers all night long.

You want to see bunches of them? Stake out your lawn chair near me!     ;-)

-scott


Sent from inside the TARDIS

<div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: "Sophia Porter sophiaporter7@gmail.com [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> </div><div>Date:02/03/2015  13:57  (GMT-06:00) </div><div>To: ASKC Chat <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> </div><div>Subject: Re: [ASKC] Time for the Messier Hunt is approaching </div><div>
</div>New to the Messier Marathon here. Is this sort of like the HOA Star Party in that you can wander, or does most everyone bring a telescope? What are the logistical details?


Best,
Sophia
On Feb 2, 2015, at 8:45 PM, s.kranz1@comcast.net [ASKC] <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

 

Are you getting tired of the dull winter? Ready to get out observing soon? Members who have been around a while already know where I am heading with this. There have been quite a few new faces that have joined lately, so I figured that I would explain what is coming just around the corner.
 
You all know the story of Charles Messier and his hunt for comets and fame. You also may know that he got tired of being confused by previously observed fuzzy patches that tricked him into thinking that he discovered a new comet. Tired of (re)discovering these objects over and over again, he made a list of these objects that were not to be confused as comets. 110 of these non-comets made his catalog. It was called the Messier Catalog.
 
Today, most amateurs start their personal observing careers by finding and logging these objects because they are some of the brightest (ok.... maybe not all of them) and many of the most beautiful objects in the sky. But did you know that during late March through early April, you can see the entire catalog of 110 objects in a single night? Yes, it is possible! And in astronomy clubs across the world, members participate in a Messier Marathon on the New Moon during this time. Start in the west after sunset and move across the sky, working east, until sunrise.
 
Traditionally, the Messier Marathon pits one observer against the other, hunting objects down by manually moving their scopes around, using a star atlas and their skills. One night equals one shot... all by yourself. No do-overs.
 
In the ASKC, we like to have a little more fun though. We will be holding our annual Messier Marathon at the club's Dark Sky Site on the weekend of Friday, March 20 - Sunday, March 22.
 
Set a goal to observe as many Messiers as you want. 10, 20, 50, or the entire list. Use your GO-TO telescope. Share views with a friend and you both can log it. Combine both Friday night and Saturday night on to one final list. Or just come out to enjoy the dark skies and visit with friends under the stars. JUST COME OUT! For most of us, the marathon is more of a test to see if you can stay awake all night. Bring food, snacks, and warm drinks to share. Remember we have a building where we could have an all-night buffet. Rumor is that astronomers LOVE Oreos (Double Stuf is even better!). Bring a lawn chair and watch for meteors. Test out some new equipment received for Christmas. Work on a different observing project, or start a new one.
 
This is mid-March so be aware of extreme temperatures both high and low. In the past 20 years, we've had shorts and t-shirt weather during the night. And we've also had hard bitter frost. In this part of the country, you can never be sure. Bring plenty of clothes to layer in case of cold.
 
Be sure to arrive with plenty of time for setting up before sunset. A DSS veteran's helpful hint: the further west you set up in the observing field, the better.
 
I will have Marathon forms for you to fill out in the field. Just get them back to me before you leave and you'll be getting an official ASKC Messier Marathon certificate whether you found 4 or 104 Messiers.
 
I will most likely give a little announcement at the February General Meeting just as a reminder. If we have clear skies, I hope to see a lot of you out on the observing field!
 
Dark Skies to you!
-Scott

Also..... a few new members have expressed interest in seeing coal mine at the DSS. March is the perfect time to check it out with the weeds being mostly gone.

I would be willing to head a tour out to see it Saturday afternoon.

Also
... no tent or camper? Bring a sleeping bag and sleep in the building. It should be fairly warm inside.

Sent from inside the TARDIS

<div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: "Scott s.kranz1@comcast.net [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> </div><div>Date:02/03/2015  15:12  (GMT-06:00) </div><div>To: askc <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> </div><div>Subject: Re: [ASKC] Time for the Messier Hunt is approaching </div><div>
</div>Pretty much all New Moon weekends are like a mini-HOASP. Members usually tend to do more serious observing, but no one is going to throw you out for asking for a peek.

Now mind you, at star parties with lots of new observers, we tend to look at the more bright glamorous stuff. On a normal new moon weekend you are more likely to find me hunting down a 16th mag edge-on galaxy, or an averted vision faint blue point of light that is a quasar 12.5 billion LY away.

Bring a lounging lawn chair, blanket, and binos, if nothing else.

The only thing different about this star party is that some observers may be seeing Messiers all night long.

You want to see bunches of them? Stake out your lawn chair near me!     ;-)

-scott


Sent from inside the TARDIS


-------- Original message --------
From: "Sophia Porter sophiaporter7@gmail.com [ASKC]"
Date:02/03/2015 13:57 (GMT-06:00)
To: ASKC Chat
Subject: Re: [ASKC] Time for the Messier Hunt is approaching

 
New to the Messier Marathon here. Is this sort of like the HOA Star Party in that you can wander, or does most everyone bring a telescope? What are the logistical details?


Best,
Sophia
On Feb 2, 2015, at 8:45 PM, s.kranz1@comcast.net [ASKC] <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

 

Are you getting tired of the dull winter? Ready to get out observing soon? Members who have been around a while already know where I am heading with this. There have been quite a few new faces that have joined lately, so I figured that I would explain what is coming just around the corner.
 
You all know the story of Charles Messier and his hunt for comets and fame. You also may know that he got tired of being confused by previously observed fuzzy patches that tricked him into thinking that he discovered a new comet. Tired of (re)discovering these objects over and over again, he made a list of these objects that were not to be confused as comets. 110 of these non-comets made his catalog. It was called the Messier Catalog.
 
Today, most amateurs start their personal observing careers by finding and logging these objects because they are some of the brightest (ok.... maybe not all of them) and many of the most beautiful objects in the sky. But did you know that during late March through early April, you can see the entire catalog of 110 objects in a single night? Yes, it is possible! And in astronomy clubs across the world, members participate in a Messier Marathon on the New Moon during this time. Start in the west after sunset and move across the sky, working east, until sunrise.
 
Traditionally, the Messier Marathon pits one observer against the other, hunting objects down by manually moving their scopes around, using a star atlas and their skills. One night equals one shot... all by yourself. No do-overs.
 
In the ASKC, we like to have a little more fun though. We will be holding our annual Messier Marathon at the club's Dark Sky Site on the weekend of Friday, March 20 - Sunday, March 22.
 
Set a goal to observe as many Messiers as you want. 10, 20, 50, or the entire list. Use your GO-TO telescope. Share views with a friend and you both can log it. Combine both Friday night and Saturday night on to one final list. Or just come out to enjoy the dark skies and visit with friends under the stars. JUST COME OUT! For most of us, the marathon is more of a test to see if you can stay awake all night. Bring food, snacks, and warm drinks to share. Remember we have a building where we could have an all-night buffet. Rumor is that astronomers LOVE Oreos (Double Stuf is even better!). Bring a lawn chair and watch for meteors. Test out some new equipment received for Christmas. Work on a different observing project, or start a new one.
 
This is mid-March so be aware of extreme temperatures both high and low. In the past 20 years, we've had shorts and t-shirt weather during the night. And we've also had hard bitter frost. In this part of the country, you can never be sure. Bring plenty of clothes to layer in case of cold.
 
Be sure to arrive with plenty of time for setting up before sunset. A DSS veteran's helpful hint: the further west you set up in the observing field, the better.
 
I will have Marathon forms for you to fill out in the field. Just get them back to me before you leave and you'll be getting an official ASKC Messier Marathon certificate whether you found 4 or 104 Messiers.
 
I will most likely give a little announcement at the February General Meeting just as a reminder. If we have clear skies, I hope to see a lot of you out on the observing field!
 
Dark Skies to you!
-Scott

Well, I'm sold! Definitely going to head down that weekend.
On Feb 3, 2015 3:12 PM, "Scott s.kranz1@... [ASKC]" <
ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

>
>
> Pretty much all New Moon weekends are like a mini-HOASP. Members usually
> tend to do more serious observing, but no one is going to throw you out for
> asking for a peek.
>
> Now mind you, at star parties with lots of new observers, we tend to look
> at the more bright glamorous stuff. On a normal new moon weekend you are
> more likely to find me hunting down a 16th mag edge-on galaxy, or an
> averted vision faint blue point of light that is a quasar 12.5 billion LY
> away.
>
> Bring a lounging lawn chair, blanket, and binos, if nothing else.
>
> The only thing different about this star party is that some observers may
> be seeing Messiers all night long.
>
> You want to see bunches of them? Stake out your lawn chair near me!     ;-)
>
> -scott
>
>
> Sent from inside the TARDIS
>
>
> -------- Original message --------
> From: "Sophia Porter sophiaporter7@... [ASKC]"
> Date:02/03/2015 13:57 (GMT-06:00)
> To: ASKC Chat
> Subject: Re: [ASKC] Time for the Messier Hunt is approaching
>
>
>
> New to the Messier Marathon here. Is this sort of like the HOA Star Party
> in that you can wander, or does most everyone bring a telescope? What are
> the logistical details?
>
> Best,
> Sophia
>
> On Feb 2, 2015, at 8:45 PM, s.kranz1@... [ASKC] <
> ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> Are you getting tired of the dull winter? Ready to get out observing soon?
> Members who have been around a while already know where I am heading with
> this. There have been quite a few new faces that have joined lately, so I
> figured that I would explain what is coming just around the corner.
>
> You all know the story of Charles Messier and his hunt for comets and
> fame. You also may know that he got tired of being confused by previously
> observed fuzzy patches that tricked him into thinking that he discovered a
> new comet. Tired of (re)discovering these objects over and over again, he
> made a list of these objects that were not to be confused as comets. 110 of
> these non-comets made his catalog. It was called the Messier Catalog.
>
> Today, most amateurs start their personal observing careers by finding and
> logging these objects because they are some of the brightest (ok.... maybe
> not all of them) and many of the most beautiful objects in the sky. But did
> you know that during late March through early April, you can see the entire
> catalog of 110 objects in a single night? Yes, it is possible! And in
> astronomy clubs across the world, members participate in a Messier
> Marathon on the New Moon during this time. Start in the west after sunset
> and move across the sky, working east, until sunrise.
>
> Traditionally, the Messier Marathon pits one observer against the other,
> hunting objects down by manually moving their scopes around, using a star
> atlas and their skills. One night equals one shot... all by yourself. No
> do-overs.
>
> In the ASKC, we like to have a little more fun though. We will be holding
> our annual Messier Marathon at the club's Dark Sky Site on the weekend of
> Friday, March 20 - Sunday, March 22.
>
> Set a goal to observe as many Messiers as you want. 10, 20, 50, or the
> entire list. Use your GO-TO telescope. Share views with a friend and you
> both can log it. Combine both Friday night and Saturday night on to one
> final list. Or just come out to enjoy the dark skies and visit with friends
> under the stars. JUST COME OUT! For most of us, the marathon is more of a
> test to see if you can stay awake all night. Bring food, snacks, and warm
> drinks to share. Remember we have a building where we could have an
> all-night buffet. Rumor is that astronomers LOVE Oreos (Double Stuf is even
> better!). Bring a lawn chair and watch for meteors. Test out some new
> equipment received for Christmas. Work on a different observing project, or
> start a new one.
>
> This is mid-March so be aware of extreme temperatures both high and low.
> In the past 20 years, we've had shorts and t-shirt weather during the
> night. And we've also had hard bitter frost. In this part of the country,
> you can never be sure. Bring plenty of clothes to layer in case of cold.
>
> Be sure to arrive with plenty of time for setting up before sunset. A DSS
> veteran's helpful hint: the further west you set up in the observing field,
> the better.
>
> I will have Marathon forms for you to fill out in the field. Just get them
> back to me before you leave and you'll be getting an official ASKC Messier
> Marathon certificate whether you found 4 or 104 Messiers.
>
> I will most likely give a little announcement at the February General
> Meeting just as a reminder. If we have clear skies, I hope to see a lot of
> you out on the observing field!
>
> Dark Skies to you!
> -Scott
>
>
>   
>

Does anyone use a QHY5 guide camera for their astro-imaging?  I'd like to
talk with someone who does.

 

Thanks.

 

Rick Henderson

I have one and have used it, but I don't use it any more. 

 

On 1/30/2015 6:33 AM, Jason jason@... [ASKC] wrote:
> Jim, we have all the images locally stored at Powell, going back to last summer (some breaks in coverage). What could you do with those?
>
> Jason
Hi,
I've put up some more hand made timelapses organized in 24 hour 
periods.  I realized I am capturing form 0:00 PST for 24 hours, and that 
captures for you from 2am to 2am.  I'll have to fix that in my 
automation.  However the creation of the videos and adjustments is 
simple so far.

on youtube.com look for "powell observatory timelapse"

Sample video:

http://youtu.be/sYtHtyTLxTU

I'd be glad to figure out how to encode the data you have stored.

Question on the uploading of your captures.  it appears to be at 15 min 
intervals.  I'm grabbing @ 3 minute intervals.  I can cut back if the 15 
min is accurate.

thanks
Jim

Here is a playlist for Youtube for all the timelapse videos so far.

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5NK70kdq3-Ib05wVCGalp434q1mhW0iZ

thanks,
Jim

I am compiling a list of those of you that do astro-video photography. Please send me a private message if you are accomplished in this field. Thanks, Joe _______________________________________________________________________________

Joseph S. Wright

Cell Phone:  (913) 208-0924

Operations Manager, Warkoczewski Public Observatory (WPO)  
  University of Missouri-Kansas City

Vice-President, Astronomical Society of Kansas City
Solar System Ambassador, NASA/JPL Volunteer Program
Girl Scouts of NE Kansas-NW Missouri  Aerospace/Astronomy/Weather S.T.E.M. Specialist

THIS JUST IN................ Due to a double booking at UMKC, Teacher Resource Day for tomorrow, February 7th will be held in Pierson Auditorium (Atterbury Student Success Center) not in the UMKC Student Union. It will still run from 9am to 12 noon. There is parking just south of the Student Success Center. Sorry for the inconvenience. We are looking into the parking situation. It is free on the weekend but space is limited and there might be another event taking place. So please plan accordingly. We can get in the room at 7:30am.    If you have any questions or concerns, please let me know. I will be at the office till about 2:00 today (Friday). You may email me soriley@... and I will check my email and respond as soon as I can from home. You may also call Patty Dailey, Program Director at 816-694-3585 with questions.   Again, Sorry for the inconvenience this may cause.   Here is the link for the map. http://www.umkc.edu/maps/documents/volker_maps/UMKC_Volker_campus.pdf   JOE_______________________________________________________________________________

Joseph S. Wright

Cell Phone:  (913) 208-0924

Operations Manager, Warkoczewski Public Observatory (WPO)  
  University of Missouri-Kansas City

Vice-President, Astronomical Society of Kansas City
Solar System Ambassador, NASA/JPL Volunteer Program
Girl Scouts of NE Kansas-NW Missouri  Aerospace/Astronomy/Weather S.T.E.M. Specialist

Joe,

If you want “accomplished” folks, I am not it.  But I do do some astrophotography

Tim






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I am compiling a list of those of you that do astro-video photography.

 

Please send me a private message if you are accomplished in this field.

 

Thanks,

 

Joe


 


_______________________________________________________________________________ 

Joseph S. Wright 

Cell Phone:  (913) 208-0924 

Operations Manager, Warkoczewski Public Observatory (WPO)   
  University of Missouri-Kansas City 

Vice-President, Astronomical Society of Kansas City 
Solar System Ambassador, NASA/JPL Volunteer Program 
Girl Scouts of NE Kansas-NW Missouri  Aerospace/Astronomy/Weather S.T.E.M. Specialist 

Joe,  How do i send a private message?  gene Williams

I don't think anyone considers themselves "accomplished". There is always someone who does it far better. All we can do is try to better ourselves. Tom J Martinez
http://tomjmartinez.blogspot.com/ 

     On Friday, February 6, 2015 4:52 PM, "TKristl100@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
   

     Joe,If you want “accomplished” folks, I am not it.  But I do do some astrophotographyTim

Sent from Windows Mail
From: Joseph Wright jos.wright@... [ASKC]
Sent: ‎Friday‎, ‎February‎ ‎6‎, ‎2015 ‎7‎:‎42‎ ‎AM
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    I am compiling a list of those of you that do astro-video photography. Please send me a private message if you are accomplished in this field. Thanks, Joe _______________________________________________________________________________

Joseph S. Wright

Cell Phone:  (913) 208-0924

Operations Manager, Warkoczewski Public Observatory (WPO)  
  University of Missouri-Kansas City

Vice-President, Astronomical Society of Kansas City
Solar System Ambassador, NASA/JPL Volunteer Program
Girl Scouts of NE Kansas-NW Missouri  Aerospace/Astronomy/Weather S.T.E.M. Specialist
   
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Yes, it's one of those things for which you never feel "good enough". There is always much room for learning.

---- "Tom Martinez zenitrammot@...m [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote: 
> I don't think anyone considers themselves "accomplished". There is always someone who does it far better. All we can do is try to better ourselves. Tom J Martinez
> http://tomjmartinez.blogspot.com/ 
> 
>      On Friday, February 6, 2015 4:52 PM, "TKristl100@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
>    
> 
>      Joe,If you want “accomplished” folks, I am not it.  But I do do some astrophotographyTim
> 
> Sent from Windows Mail
> From: Joseph Wright jos.wright@... [ASKC]
> Sent: ‎Friday‎, ‎February‎ ‎6‎, ‎2015 ‎7‎:‎42‎ ‎AM
> To: ASKC On Yahoogroups
>     I am compiling a list of those of you that do astro-video photography. Please send me a private message if you are accomplished in this field. Thanks, Joe _______________________________________________________________________________
> 
> Joseph S. Wright
> 
> Cell Phone:  (913) 208-0924
> 
> Operations Manager, Warkoczewski Public Observatory (WPO)  
>   University of Missouri-Kansas City
> 
> Vice-President, Astronomical Society of Kansas City
> Solar System Ambassador, NASA/JPL Volunteer Program
> Girl Scouts of NE Kansas-NW Missouri  Aerospace/Astronomy/Weather S.T.E.M. Specialist
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>    

As a follow-up to Joe Wright’s query about club members interested in astrovideo:

Does anybody else have one of the Mallincam Micro EX video cameras? I bought one of these devices a few months ago ($149?),and  just now experimenting a little with it. 

Dave Hudgins

These were my thoughts. I have invited a couple of our noted still-astro-photographers to be the main speaker at a monthly meeting in the near, very near future.    I am trying to give time to several types of cameras such as the SBIG and the HyperStar.  Then there are DSLR and video photography formats. I would like equal time for them also.My intent was not just a pretty picture session, but to have some of the science and techniques associated in creating such images.  All to often, each of us has encountered the slight of hand magic show were the person does a few quick click of the mouse and that's it.  Luckily no one in the ASKC does this.  I want these presentations to truly wet the appetite of our members to get active in photography, still or video.  I want there to be a range of cost of equipment from low, end beginner to high-end magazine/professional quality.  Maybe we starts some SIGs (Special Interest Groups) that meet before the main meeting similar to the ASTRO101.   I know someone will say it takes this and that, well, maybe this and that is out there for a actual workshop.   The ASKC recently purchased a new camera for the AIC (Astro Imaging Center) and it is yours to use.....with the proper training.   How wonderful would it be if there was a actual waiting list to use Powell and the AIC.   Therefore, I need someone well versed in using video and even maybe time stamping to give a main presentation.  Hey, you'll get a free dinner with Rita and I!   Now who is willing to speak up???    That's it in a nut shell and I am the "have been tested to be a nut" Joe _______________________________________________________________________________

Joseph S. Wright

Cell Phone:  (913) 208-0924

Operations Manager, Warkoczewski Public Observatory (WPO)  
  University of Missouri-Kansas City

Vice-President, Astronomical Society of Kansas City
Solar System Ambassador, NASA/JPL Volunteer Program
Girl Scouts of NE Kansas-NW Missouri  Aerospace/Astronomy/Weather S.T.E.M. Specialist

Stuart and Susan Riley, John Fitzgerald and David Young did a fantastic job today highlighting the ASKC, the observatories along with software and hands-on activities to about 250 teachers from the region at UMKC. We had one of, if not the most, visited table at the event.   Thanks Folks, Joe _______________________________________________________________________________

Joseph S. Wright

Cell Phone:  (913) 208-0924

Operations Manager, Warkoczewski Public Observatory (WPO)  
  University of Missouri-Kansas City

Vice-President, Astronomical Society of Kansas City
Solar System Ambassador, NASA/JPL Volunteer Program
Girl Scouts of NE Kansas-NW Missouri  Aerospace/Astronomy/Weather S.T.E.M. Specialist

Sorry Joe.  I thought you were simply compiling a list of imagers.  I am neither accomplished or an expert... 

 Gene Williams

I don't know about you being an expert Gene but, you take some pretty good images

 
Jim Carothers


On Saturday, February 7, 2015 6:23 PM, "genogeno1@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
 


  
Sorry Joe.  I thought you were simply compiling a list of imagers.  I am neither accomplished or an expert...

Gene Williams

Sorry, Joe.  I thought you were just looking for a list of people who do imaging.  I am neither accomplished or an expert in this!   

 Gene Williams

Well thank you Jim.  

Gene Williams 

Three of us will be at the DSS moving some brush tomorrow (Sunday) starting at 10:00. Feel free to join us.

Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE DROID

Thanks for your help, Rick. At least the security guy had a nice night to stand out there and pop the gates. And thanks for your part in putting the event together tonight. Thanks to all who helped.  Pete
 

Yes, Rick, thank you. Union Station was nice...until it held me captive in the parking garage. Thanks for getting me on my way.

I hope we get to have another planetarium event. The turnout was awesome and everyone was talking about what a great time they had.

Melinda

Hi Melinda,
That was quite an experience in the garage last night, wasn't it. (I was the guy behind you. You were so focused on getting the voucher & ticket in, you didn't notice that the arm had gone up. 😳) It's funny how we all sat there in line & watched everyone struggle with the gate arm -- & then each of us DID IT SGAIN!

Keith Rawlings

> On Feb 7, 2015, at 11:56 PM, melindaslater@... [ASKC] <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
> 
> Yes, Rick, thank you. Union Station was nice...until it held me captive in the parking garage. Thanks for getting me on my way.
> 
> I hope we get to have another planetarium event. The turnout was awesome and everyone was talking about what a great time they had.
> 
> Melinda
> 
> 

To all that came to our ASKC night at the Gottlieb last night, I hope everyone had a good time, enjoyed the food and the company and finally, enjoyed the programs that were shown in the Gottlieb Planetarium, a good deal of which was "home grown!"

 

Many thanks to Pat Gruenke for organizing the food and bringing much of it herself, and to Roger Gruenke for hauling most of it around.  Having the time to snack, talk and just mingle around was made all the better by their efforts and those who also helped bring treats.

 

Many thanks to Bentley Ousley who, once again, has demonstrated his musical, computer and graphical talents and has me anxiously waiting to see his complete show this May in the Gottlieb.  Ever since our first foray into the completely dark Gottlieb Planetarium back in 2004, Bentley has been a visionary in the "what if" category about what might be possible for programming content, production and projection systems.  It has been a lot of work, but I always learn something from working with Bentley.

 

Many thanks to Tom Martinez.  I have watched and admired Tom's video and photography work ever since I first joined the ASKC and have personally learned much from him in the process.  While we will miss Tom and Gloria after they've moved to Colorado this spring, the internet will still allow us to keep tabs on what they're doing and what video and photographical projects Tom will next turn his talents to.

 

And many thanks to Jeff Rosenblatt and Patrick Hess.  Jeff, as the director of Science City, has shown his dedication and support to both the ASKC and the Gottlieb over the years and has become a good friend as well.  And Patrick is the kind of full-time talent that the Gottlieb has needed ever since we first became involved with the planetarium.  The future only looks better for the Gottlieb.

 

And, unfortunately, I want to apologize to everyone who had difficulties getting out of the parking garage last night.  Jeff has also apologized to me and neither one of us is quite sure what went wrong, but it was not the fault of Jeff.  Once I became aware of the situation, the Union Station security staff helped and I even ended standing by the gate to say some "magic" words and push buttons to help the last few folks got out.  

 

Honest, I was only kidding when I said insert the blue ticket, then the white ticket and then floor it!

 

Overall, I think an excellent night.  I was very happy to see the turnout (somewhere between 100 and 110 total!) and hope everyone had a good time with friends and the program.  If you have ideas for future ASKC adventures, please let me know.  We're working on something for the spring so stayed tuned!

 

Rick Henderson

Yes, Keith, the gate went up when he pressed the call button. Who knew it was that easy? Lol. The machine still thought we all owed $5, so I hope Union Station has their shortfall sorted out.

we didn't think the parking thing was a big deal...patience is a virtue..Richard and I had a great time...it was good to see our fellow stargazers again,and we are looking forward to repeating the experience...

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I posted a few pix  taken last night in the meet and greet and in the planetarium..taken BEFORE  the introduction  that said   NO PICTURES!!!!!!OOOOPS  SORRY!!!!!!!!!!

The brush on the west side of the pond has been hauled to the south side of the tree line south of the REBb.

Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE DROID

Hmmm....I'm not sure what we would contribute to the assembly. Anyone interested?
Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE DROID

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: John Fiske Science and Health Night
From: "WILKES, SHARON M" <SHARON.WILKES@kckps.org>
To: David Young <youngmdavid@gmail.com>
CC: 

Hi David, 


We are trying to put together a kick off assembly for our Science and Health Night.  We are wanting to have a whole school assembly to get our students excited for our evening events. This would take place the same day but earlier in the day, around 3:15pm.  Our students love when you come in the evening and show your telescopes and other items.  We were wanting to check and see if there was any kind of presentation you would be interested in doing for our kick off assembly.  We would still ask you to come in the evening as well.  So we know this would be a big commitment to come in the afternoon and evening. If you are not able to do the assembly in the afternoon, we definitely understand, we just wanted to check and see.


We are excited to have you come with your telescopes in the evening!    


Thank you, 

Sharon Wilkes


From: David Young <youngmdavid@gmail.com>
Date: Tuesday, January 13, 2015 at 7:07 PM
To: Sharon Wilkes <sharon.wilkes@kckps.org>
Subject: Re: John Fiske Science and Health Night


Several members have confirmed they Will be there with telescopes and items to display.


Sent via Gmail from David Young


On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 5:34 PM, WILKES, SHARON M <SHARON.WILKES@kckps.org> wrote:

Thank you!  If you could please let me know about the planetarium that would be great.  If you cannot bring it I understand.  Would you still be bringing your telescopes?



From: David Young <youngmdavid@gmail.com>
Date: Tuesday, January 13, 2015 at 10:11 AM
To: Sharon Wilkes <sharon.wilkes@kckps.org>
Subject: Re: John Fiske Science and Health Night


The ASKC will be there. Not sure about the StarLab planetarium yet.


Sent via Gmail from David Young


On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 9:29 PM, WILKES, SHARON M <SHARON.WILKES@kckps.org> wrote:

It's that time of year again!  This is Sharon Wilkes, teacher at John Fiske Elementary here in KCK.  We will be holding our annual Health and Science Night on Thursday, April 9th from 6:00-7:30 and we’d like to know if you would attend.  This is a fantastic evening for our students and their families and you are always a great addition.  You would be given your own room here at the school and would be responsible for having something interactive/engaging for our families.  Last year you had brought the telescopes and our students loved them.  You had also mentioned that you could bring your planetarium.  We were wondering if this was an option along with the telescopes this year.  


Please let me know if you would be interested and what questions you may have.       


Thank you for your consideration! 


Sharon Wilkes

John Fiske Elementary 

913-627-4850

Science and Health Night Coordinator

 

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That was so much fun and I love see our ASKC family always! Looking forward to the Messier Marathon for another 'family' gathering!

Parking was a pain as I think the beauty pageant folks were trying to leave at the same time. Leif and I sat in our car for bit, relaxing and talking while waiting for the line to improve a little. We didn't think it was too bad. And it was well worth the hassle for as great of a time that we had!

David Young - Would you give me the info on the crack popcorn again? I can't remember what you told me and would love to make it for my co-workers. That stuff is amazing and addictive.

Tom, 
You will be dearly missed! Leif and I hope you are able to make it back to Missouri once in awhile. If nothing else, maybe the HOASP? : ) Wonderful presentations you gave last night. You are so truly talented.

Joe,
You mentioned to me last night that Levy is coming back to KC 9/11/2015? Is that date firm? If so, I would like to start advertising it on ASKC Facebook. I know Dan McIntosh advertised the last event and probably will this time as well. But thought I could start posting a reminder to our social media sites once a month as well to hopefully get even more people to attend this time around. I think it would have been a packed house last time had more people known. I mean, really, it's Levy! That's awesome we get to see him again! Do you know if Linda Hall will be advertising it as well? They have a huge audience, especially through their email distribution. 
Oh! And I hope there will be books to buy for him to sign again! I didn't do it last time and really wished I had! Let me know and I can advertise about a book signing as well. 

Thanks,
Cindy Bahl

> On Feb 8, 2015, at 1:03 PM, 'Rick Henderson' rhenderson1@... [ASKC] <ASKC@...m> wrote:
> 
> To all that came to our ASKC night at the Gottlieb last night, I hope everyone had a good time, enjoyed the food and the company and finally, enjoyed the programs that were shown in the Gottlieb Planetarium, a good deal of which was "home grown!"
> 
>  
> 
> Many thanks to Pat Gruenke for organizing the food and bringing much of it herself, and to Roger Gruenke for hauling most of it around.  Having the time to snack, talk and just mingle around was made all the better by their efforts and those who also helped bring treats.
> 
>  
> 
> Many thanks to Bentley Ousley who, once again, has demonstrated his musical, computer and graphical talents and has me anxiously waiting to see his complete show this May in the Gottlieb.  Ever since our first foray into the completely dark Gottlieb Planetarium back in 2004, Bentley has been a visionary in the "what if" category about what might be possible for programming content, production and projection systems.  It has been a lot of work, but I always learn something from working with Bentley.
> 
>  
> 
> Many thanks to Tom Martinez.  I have watched and admired Tom's video and photography work ever since I first joined the ASKC and have personally learned much from him in the process.  While we will miss Tom and Gloria after they've moved to Colorado this spring, the internet will still allow us to keep tabs on what they're doing and what video and photographical projects Tom will next turn his talents to.
> 
>  
> 
> And many thanks to Jeff Rosenblatt and Patrick Hess.  Jeff, as the director of Science City, has shown his dedication and support to both the ASKC and the Gottlieb over the years and has become a good friend as well.  And Patrick is the kind of full-time talent that the Gottlieb has needed ever since we first became involved with the planetarium.  The future only looks better for the Gottlieb.
> 
>  
> 
> And, unfortunately, I want to apologize to everyone who had difficulties getting out of the parking garage last night.  Jeff has also apologized to me and neither one of us is quite sure what went wrong, but it was not the fault of Jeff.  Once I became aware of the situation, the Union Station security staff helped and I even ended standing by the gate to say some "magic" words and push buttons to help the last few folks got out. 
> 
>  
> 
> Honest, I was only kidding when I said insert the blue ticket, then the white ticket and then floor it!
> 
>  
> 
> Overall, I think an excellent night.  I was very happy to see the turnout (somewhere between 100 and 110 total!) and hope everyone had a good time with friends and the program.  If you have ideas for future ASKC adventures, please let me know.  We're working on something for the spring so stayed tuned!
> 
>  
> 
> Rick Henderson
> 
> 

Rick (et. al.)

Susan and I had a great time at the Gottlieb Planetarium and social hour with ASKC Friends!
I was impressed with all the effort and work that went into the productions and work to show these fine talents and hope we can contribute once we are back (in town and staying). :-)

Thank you Rick and all who made this a great gathering.
Parking Garage issues? Nope.
Our car was still waiting for us safely where we parked, and all the wheels were attached too. Double the surprises!

Stuart Riley

> On Feb 8, 2015, at 1:36 PM, 'alehman@...' alehman@... [ASKC] <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> Very nice evening. Thank you Rick for all your efforts!
> 
> Sent on the new Sprint Network
> 
> ----- Reply message -----
> From: "'Rick Henderson' rhenderson1@... <mailto:rhenderson1@...> [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com <mailto:ASKC@yahoogroups.com>>
> To: <ASKC@yahoogroups.com <mailto:ASKC@yahoogroups.com>>
> Subject: [ASKC] ASKC Night at the Gottlieb Planetarium
> Date: Sun, Feb 8, 2015 1:03 PM
> 
>  
> 
> To all that came to our ASKC night at the Gottlieb last night, I hope everyone had a good time, enjoyed the food and the company and finally, enjoyed the programs that were shown in the Gottlieb Planetarium, a good deal of which was "home grown!"
> 
>  
> 
> Many thanks to Pat Gruenke for organizing the food and bringing much of it herself, and to Roger Gruenke for hauling most of it around.  Having the time to snack, talk and just mingle around was made all the better by their efforts and those who also helped bring treats.
> 
>  
> 
> Many thanks to Bentley Ousley who, once again, has demonstrated his musical, computer and graphical talents and has me anxiously waiting to see his complete show this May in the Gottlieb.  Ever since our first foray into the completely dark Gottlieb Planetarium back in 2004, Bentley has been a visionary in the "what if" category about what might be possible for programming content, production and projection systems.  It has been a lot of work, but I always learn something from working with Bentley.
> 
>  
> 
> Many thanks to Tom Martinez.  I have watched and admired Tom's video and photography work ever since I first joined the ASKC and have personally learned much from him in the process.  While we will miss Tom and Gloria after they've moved to Colorado this spring, the internet will still allow us to keep tabs on what they're doing and what video and photographical projects Tom will next turn his talents to.
> 
>  
> 
> And many thanks to Jeff Rosenblatt and Patrick Hess.  Jeff, as the director of Science City, has shown his dedication and support to both the ASKC and the Gottlieb over the years and has become a good friend as well.  And Patrick is the kind of full-time talent that the Gottlieb has needed ever since we first became involved with the planetarium.  The future only looks better for the Gottlieb.
> 
>  
> 
> And, unfortunately, I want to apologize to everyone who had difficulties getting out of the parking garage last night.  Jeff has also apologized to me and neither one of us is quite sure what went wrong, but it was not the fault of Jeff.  Once I became aware of the situation, the Union Station security staff helped and I even ended standing by the gate to say some "magic" words and push buttons to help the last few folks got out.  
> 
>  
> 
> Honest, I was only kidding when I said insert the blue ticket, then the white ticket and then floor it!
> 
>  
> 
> Overall, I think an excellent night.  I was very happy to see the turnout (somewhere between 100 and 110 total!) and hope everyone had a good time with friends and the program.  If you have ideas for future ASKC adventures, please let me know.  We're working on something for the spring so stayed tuned!
> 
>  
> 
> Rick Henderson
> 
> 
> 
> 

if the sky is good I could be set up out side for sun spots ? last year I called ahead and asked if I could come early for viewing sun spots. I had quite a few students  in line.  I guess sun spot viewing could be a after assembly.    r. schoenberger
       From: "David Young youngmdavid@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com>
 To: ASKC@yahoogroups.com 
 Sent: Sunday, February 8, 2015 1:50 PM
 Subject: [ASKC] Fwd: John Fiske Science and Health Night
   
    Hmmm....I'm not sure what we would contribute to the assembly. Anyone interested?Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE DROID

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: John Fiske Science and Health Night
From: "WILKES, SHARON M" <SHARON.WILKES@kckps.org>
To: David Young <youngmdavid@...>
CC: 

Hi David, 
We are trying to put together a kick off assembly for our Science and Health Night.  We are wanting to have a whole school assembly to get our students excited for our evening events. This would take place the same day but earlier in the day, around 3:15pm.  Our students love when you come in the evening and show your telescopes and other items.  We were wanting to check and see if there was any kind of presentation you would be interested in doing for our kick off assembly.  We would still ask you to come in the evening as well.  So we know this would be a big commitment to come in the afternoon and evening. If you are not able to do the assembly in the afternoon, we definitely understand, we just wanted to check and see.
We are excited to have you come with your telescopes in the evening!    
Thank you, Sharon Wilkes
From: David Young <youngmdavid@gmail.com>
Date: Tuesday, January 13, 2015 at 7:07 PM
To: Sharon Wilkes <sharon.wilkes@...>
Subject: Re: John Fiske Science and Health Night

Several members have confirmed they Will be there with telescopes and items to display.
Sent via Gmail from David Young
On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 5:34 PM, WILKES, SHARON M <SHARON.WILKES@...> wrote:

Thank you!  If you could please let me know about the planetarium that would be great.  If you cannot bring it I understand.  Would you still be bringing your telescopes?

From: David Young <youngmdavid@...>
Date: Tuesday, January 13, 2015 at 10:11 AM
To: Sharon Wilkes <sharon.wilkes@...>
Subject: Re: John Fiske Science and Health Night

The ASKC will be there. Not sure about the StarLab planetarium yet.
Sent via Gmail from David Young
On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 9:29 PM, WILKES, SHARON M <SHARON.WILKES@...> wrote:

It's that time of year again!  This is Sharon Wilkes, teacher at John Fiske Elementary here in KCK.  We will be holding our annual Health and Science Night on Thursday, April 9th from 6:00-7:30 and we’d like to know if you would attend.  This is a fantastic evening for our students and their families and you are always a great addition.  You would be given your own room here at the school and would be responsible for having something interactive/engaging for our families.  Last year you had brought the telescopes and our students loved them.  You had also mentioned that you could bring your planetarium.  We were wondering if this was an option along with the telescopes this year.  
Please let me know if you would be interested and what questions you may have.      
Thank you for your consideration!
Sharon WilkesJohn Fiske Elementary 913-627-4850Science and Health Night Coordinator This message has been sent from the Kansas City, Kansas Public Schools. The information contained in this email and any attachments may be privileged and confidential, and are intended only for the individual or entity identified as the addressee. If you are not the addressee, or if the message has been addressed to you in error, you are not authorized to read, retain, copy, or distribute the message or any attachments. If you have received the message in error, please delete it and any attachments and notify the sender by return e-mail or by telephone. Thank you.

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I wouldn't worry about it.  The planetarium notice is primarily for copyrighted material and the camera flash wiping out the images on the dome.  You're fine.

 

Rick Henderson

 

From: ASKC@yahoogroups.com [mailto:ASKC@yahoogroups.com] 
Sent: Sunday, February 08, 2015 1:46 PM
To: ASKC@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [ASKC] Re: Parking

 

  

I posted a few pix  taken last night in the meet and greet and in the planetarium..taken BEFORE  the introduction  that said   NO PICTURES!!!!!!OOOOPS  SORRY!!!!!!!!!!

No, the parking garage problem wasn't a big deal. If you read something I've written and I sound grumpy (hope I didn't), it's me being facetious. I don't take things too seriously. I had a great time at the event, and the garage holding me hostage was more amusing than anything.

This event was so well-attended, and I look forward to the next one. I still can't believe that was my first visit to the planetarium, but I had heard it closed and never heard it reopened.

Melinda

David,

How about some of Tom's videos? We were impressed, and I think they would be.

If someone would like to do the solar stuff or anything else for the
assembly let me know TODAY. I will be in Tuscon until next week. Joe Wright
may be able to handle any contacts with the school. And just like that I
volunteered Joe without asking him.

Sent via Gmail from David Young

On Sun, Feb 8, 2015 at 3:56 PM, richard schoenberger
rrschoenberger@... [ASKC] <ASKC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

>
>
> if the sky is good I could be set up out side for sun spots ? last year I
> called ahead and asked if I could come early for viewing sun spots. I had
> quite a few students  in line.  I guess sun spot viewing could be a after
> assembly.    r. schoenberger
>
>  ------------------------------
>  *From:* "David Young youngmdavid@... [ASKC]" <ASKC@yahoogroups.com>
> *To:* ASKC@yahoogroups.com
> *Sent:* Sunday, February 8, 2015 1:50 PM
> *Subject:* [ASKC] Fwd: John Fiske Science and Health Night
>
>
>  Hmmm....I'm not sure what we would contribute to the assembly. Anyone
> interested?
> *Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE DROID*
>
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: John Fiske Science and Health Night
> From: "WILKES, SHARON M" <SHARON.WILKES@...>
> To: David Young <youngmdavid@...>
> CC:
>
> Hi David,
>
>  We are trying to put together a kick off assembly for our Science and
> Health Night.  We are wanting to have a whole school assembly to get our
> students excited for our evening events. This would take place the same day
> but earlier in the day, around 3:15pm.  Our students love when you come in
> the evening and show your telescopes and other items.  We were wanting to
> check and see if there was any kind of presentation you would be interested
> in doing for our kick off assembly.  We would still ask you to come in the
> evening as well.  So we know this would be a big commitment to come in the
> afternoon and evening. If you are not able to do the assembly in the
> afternoon, we definitely understand, we just wanted to check and see.
>
>  We are excited to have you come with your telescopes in the evening!
>
>  Thank you,
> Sharon Wilkes
>
>   From: David Young <youngmdavid@...>
> Date: Tuesday, January 13, 2015 at 7:07 PM
> To: Sharon Wilkes <sharon.wilkes@kckps.org>
> Subject: Re: John Fiske Science and Health Night
>
>   Several members have confirmed they Will be there with telescopes and
> items to display.
>
>  Sent via Gmail from David Young
>
> On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 5:34 PM, WILKES, SHARON M <SHARON.WILKES@...
> > wrote:
>
>  Thank you!  If you could please let me know about the planetarium that
> would be great.  If you cannot bring it I understand.  Would you still be
> bringing your telescopes?
>
>
>   From: David Young <youngmdavid@...>
> Date: Tuesday, January 13, 2015 at 10:11 AM
> To: Sharon Wilkes <sharon.wilkes@kckps.org>
> Subject: Re: John Fiske Science and Health Night
>
>   The ASKC will be there. Not sure about the StarLab planetarium yet.
>
>  Sent via Gmail from David Young
>
> On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 9:29 PM, WILKES, SHARON M <SHARON.WILKES@...
> > wrote:
>
>  *It's that time of year again!  This is Sharon Wilkes, teacher at John
> Fiske Elementary here in KCK.  We will be holding our annual Health and
> Science Night on Thursday, April 9th from 6:00-7:30 and we’d like to know
> if you would attend.  This is a fantastic evening for our students and
> their families and you are always a great addition.  You would be given
> your own room here at the school and would be responsible for having
> something interactive/engaging for our families.  Last year you had brought
> the telescopes and our students loved them.  You had also mentioned that
> you could bring your planetarium.  We were wondering if this was an option
> along with the telescopes this year.  *
>
>  *Please let me know if you would be interested and what questions you
> may have.       *
>
>  *Thank you for your consideration! *
>
>  *Sharon Wilkes*
> *John Fiske Elementary *
> *913-627-4850*
> *Science and Health Night Coordinator*
>
>  ------------------------------
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> entity identified as the addressee. If you are not the addressee, or if the
> message has been addressed to you in error, you are not authorized to read,
> retain, copy, or distribute the message or any attachments. If you have
> received the message in error, please delete it and any attachments and
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>
>
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