I'm heading up to Palomar for a tour of the Hale telescope and the observatory grounds through OPTAS this weekend and was thinking of staying the night- I...
Hi all, I have just looked again at the TAC South members database and the reentered information seems to be holding. Please check the info you added to see...
I thinking of taking a trip south of the border in October. There are a couple of places that I am thinking of observing from depending on interest. I would...
Hey, Thanks for taking me up on this database. I didn't realize anyone had even looked at it. I especially like Jeff's comment on his special interests. I...
Larry what was the make of the 30mm widescan that you have. I really liked the views it gave. Does anyone else know of a good 27-32 mm widefield that works...
Hi all, I just added a table to the TAC_South website. I can be found under databases (URL below). I have arbitrarily picked some pieces of information that...
(I finally got around to writing this up...) On June 28th to July 2nd, I attended the 7th Annual Mt. Lassen Star Party put on by The Astronomy Connection...
Hey, for those of you who have been following this, I just updated the website with pics of the 6" f/6 dob, near completion and fully useable. Just checked...
I put up some more people/observing site images, and a few more astro pics on my Lassen page at: http://www.slip.net/~lefevre/Lassen.htm None of these were yet...
Last night I used a regular point & shot digital camera hand held above a 26mm eyepiece on a 10" f6.3 and snaped away. Here is a link to one of the pictures....
I almost never stay till dawn at my 'regular' site. I tend to leave between 3am and 4am. I can not speak for every car, but carefully cut and doubled up, black...
One of the folks from the original TAC list took some shots of the launch from the San Jose area -- here are the links to the images. Sorry I mssed it, I'm...
Ya know? It never happens when we look for it. I'm on two mailing lists, so I get launch information in stereo. And based on those announcements we've gone...
I'd like to build a small roll-off roof observatory in my back yard to house my C14 OTA and its Paramount mount. Unfortunately, my back yard is small, has...
I plan to go up to Palomar again Saturday night. I liked the "turnout" pretty well, but if anyone would like to meet and check out the lodge - I'm game....
I'm not clear on exactly which Palomar Mountain location this star party will be held at. Is there agreement on where on Palomar Mountain it will be? I don't...
Where did you set up? I have only been to the observatory campground, which imposes some horizon limits. I can't go up tonight, but plan to go next Saturday....
Greetings went up to Palomar last night. Temp. fell fast to 42 deg. No wind. Seeing was probably a 8 out of 10. This was the best sky I have ever had a...
I went out to Little Blair Valley (about 15 miles east of Julian at 2500') Met Larry there. Temp at 8pm 85 and windy. By 9:30 temp fell into the sixties and ...
Friday, planning to at least do a drive by 'looksee' at the sight on Palomar, I was unable to resist being a numbskull (sp?) and went down route 78 from the I5...
7/1/2000 Anza CA is about 12 miles from Palomar as the bird flies. Temps ~ mid 70's falling to low 60's F (16 - 24C), winds calm Seeing: Very good (4 on a 1-5...
You can just come as a guest. I do not know how many will be there. In Dec there was 10 people. In April there was 50 people (20 cars). It is on the shore of a...
Anyone going some place dark tonight near Escondido. I will be going out to Little Blair Valley ( opt asto-club) on sat night any one intersted contact me. It...
It looks like it is going to be a very good night. I will be taking some ccd picts tonight. If anyone is interested in watching they can stop by. I will start...
I am Jeff Gortatowsky. I live in Fullerton CA and work in Irvine CA for AOL on server side software. Married, no kids, 41 years young. Been in SoCal for 3.5...
Welcome to those who have already signed up. At the suggestion of one of the charter members (Curt W.), the list is being run through e-groups. E-groups takes...
