For those who missed last night's occultation of Saturn with the Moon, Mike has posted some video frames showing the disappearance. It's cool to see the rings...
My watch was off by exactly 12 seconds. This means the exact time for last night's last contact with Saturn from our location was at 19:52:53 EST (00:52:53...
Hi Pierre, With that piece of information, can you figure out your longitude. Joe ... From: Pierre Martin <p.martin@...> To: <oaog@yahoogroups.com> ...
Hi all, By the way, I'm pleased to announce that Chapters are now open till 11pm for the holidays. This means we can officially resume with a full sidewalk...
Hello to everyone While surfing the internet, I came across this great site.Being new and not to experienced in the field of astronomy it as helped me to ...
I was just on the phone with Mildred (JP's wife), and the skies are nice and clear west of Ottawa. Seems like we have low clouds that will soon start to move...
NRC-NSERC Colloquium on the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO) 2001-12-04 3:15 p.m. in the Auditorium at 100 Sussex Drive. Special guest Dr. John Bahcall, a...
This Monday evening, five photon-deprived OAOG members went to the Ogilvie road Chapters hoping to show the night sky to the public. Although it never did...
Jackie, Thanks for the great site. Was looking at it and found some very interesting stuff in there, I will have to go back again and again to check it out. ...
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... Hi Mary, The RASC web site ( http://ottawa.rasc.ca/events/obs_group_meeting.html ) says it starts at 7 pm, but calls it the "annual swap table event"....
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We would like to remind you of this upcoming event. Get-together! Date: Friday, December 7, 2001 Time: 5:00PM - 12:00AM EST (GMT-05:00) OAOG's get together at...
For those of you who are interested in nighttime photography, there is talk happening tonight at the Ottawa Photo Club's meeting (RA Centre on Riverside...
Forwarded below is a brief message from Paula Mcleod (of the Rehab Centre), where OAOG had hosted a recent astronomy evening. Hopefully we'll have a chance to...
Go to: http://www.weasner.com/etx/guests/guests_planets.html and the pics that Pierre and I took with the ETX 125 and QuickCam Camera are there. Enjoy! Michael...
It's quite amazing to see how much planetary astrophotography is possible with an ETX telescope. Very nice page! I'm still waiting after the "wide-field"...
Hello Tom, Ever since returning from my trip to West Virginia, I've been swamped in email. I'm slowly starting to catch up, finally... I've been reading some...
Hello Pierre. I was just telling Claude that if it's clear Friday night, I'll probably skip the meeting and head to a dark site for some long over due...
Hi Garth, Actually the moon will rise around 11:45 PM. So I'm planning to be at Casselman at around 7:30 PM. Like you, I want to take advantage of the "mild"...
Lets hope for some long-overdue clear skies. If you need your OAOG membership card, we should have it ready at the Harvey's get-together. I'll also have the...
Next year, the Leonids will indeed definitely be worth watching for, despite the glare from the Full Moon. What is interesting is the possibility of seeing...
Greetings all! Yes, I'm still alive, but swamped with work.... I'll be joining you all on Friday for the quiet reflections and contemplation ( yeah right!! )...
Interesting story in today's Ottawa Citizen newspaper about City Lights. See... http://www.canada.com/ottawa/story.asp?id=37B710D8-4AF4-4B8B-B8E2-766E4FC2CF3A...
Pierre, Are these cobra heads really the full-cutoff ones? The link below shows two models of "cobra head" lights. The first one is not full- cutoff, while the...
Hi Ricardo, It would make a lot of sense to spread the word around... as you say, we need to do something about it!! Regarding the cobra lights, I've been...
The Calendar for December 2001 (on YahooGroups) is now updated with astronomical events and OAOG activities. The highlights for December include meteor...
