Reminder from: OAFs Yahoo! Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/OAFs/cal OAFs Dinner Friday February 1, 2008 5:45 pm - 7:15 pm (This event repeats every month...
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If it happens to be clear, we should make an announcement coupled to this event, encouraging people to note the beauty of the darker sky during the lights-off...
Maybe we should organize a star party/public awareness at City Hall. If you agree I can get in contact with the people at the City to allow this. Gary ... ...
I suspect that what they want, and what people will do, is to shut off indoor lights and turn off their TV and computers, stuff like that. I really doubt that...
Looks like Google will be hosting a humongous volume of Hubble photos: Sources at Google have disclosed that the humble domain, http://research.google.com will...
Ziggy and I (with Ingrid) made to the winter star party. It's 28C here. Completely clear sky. Tonights forecast is above average transparency. Oh. and the...
... It's about +1C here; tomorrow's high is about +4C. Latitude holding at +45. The enormous dump of snow we got on Friday is sslloowwllyy starting to melt. ...
Both the CSC and the public forecast look pretty good for tomorrow. For my location, the CSC is showing as Clear with Average transparency and Average seeing...
Hey Rob...you are kidding right? Tomorrow night will suck (all white squares means very bad). Personally I have cabin fever and need photons, but the weather...
Hi Rob, Thanks for the reference to articles, and planning thoughts - This time of year, it's always hard to re-orient to the sky because of the difficulty of...
... white squares means very bad). Rob was right at the time; yesterday the squares were all dark blue. Funny how in 12 hours the forecast can change from...
A Canadian source for up to 44-inch telescope mirrors: http://www.cloudynights.com/classifieds/showproduct.php?product=8518&sort=&cat=26&page=1 -Rolf...
... Hi Richard, Yeah, it sure has deteriorated. Honest! The forecast and CSC looked good when I posted that. <grin> Best, Rob (who is also suffering from...
I figure there is near-zero chance it will be clear next Wednesday (Feb 13), but: - I am doing a little astronomy outreach event for a local Brownies group (my...
Ooooh - you didn't mention that they were cellular. Verrrrry cool. Or rather, very ambient. If anyone was going to casually pickup a 44" blank to grind their...
I buy a new cooking surface whit radiating element it is look like ceram ic or pirex or some kind of curious opack and in same time tranlucent glass and very...
I posted this question to the SBIG site, but I figure I might as well ask this question to my OAF friends. Can I leave my SBIG camera set up to my scope in my...
I can't say for sure about SBIG, but I leave my Lumenera in the observatory all the time, and if I get lazy, I even leave it on the scope. I do cover it with...
Hi Attilla, I was out observing tonight and it was -21C. This reminded me that you had spent last week at the WSP where the weather was fantastic. Did you make...
Observed for an hour from the front driveway (two bright streetlamps). Eskimo nebula, Orion Nebula, Rosette's open cluster, Mars, M1 (barely detected from...
I'm back. The drive home was fine execpt for the half hour blizzard of lake effect snow just north of Syracuse. The depressing part was driving from a hot...
Wow Roland!! Great image...how much processing? Richard ... From: roland_prevost <r.prevost@...> To: OAFs@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, February 12,...
Roland: Observing from near down-town Ottawa sucks. I do the odd bit of lunar, and enjoyed "the" comet mucho. Mostly, I have to get outside of the city to do...
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