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Mar 1, 2002 10:23 pm
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GCS Members, Its meeting time again. Our March meeting is this Thursday, the 7th, at 7:00 PM. Astronomy Day 2002 is Saturday, April 20th and I'd like to start ...
How many of you listen to WSGE FM 91.7 The Eagle, Gaston Collage Radio? They are running a spot for The Gaston County Skywatchers. Give them a listen. Otto...
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Mar 10, 2002 1:36 am
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At long last, we're listed on Sky and Telescopes web site. The link to this site didn't work but it seems to be a Yahoo problem? Otto...
Hi All, Betsy Johnson's Star Party Friday night was a big success. She's a great host and treated us like family, she had chicken on the grill, slaw, chips and...
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Mar 26, 2002 5:58 am
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Sue and I went out in the back yard at 8:50 PM tonight and we could see all five naked eye planets, what a sight....
I've placed a new file, degminsec.xls, in a folder called eyepiece in the files section. This spread sheet will calculate the true field of view in degrees,...
Hey y'all! My new Losmandy G11 equatorial mount finally showed up last Friday...only had to wait 9 weeks (Ughh!). It's awesome...this is my first use of a...
... Well, I wouldn't want to come across as a show-off (being new to the group and all) but since you asked...sure! If the weather's behaving maybe we can...
Folks, As it turns out there is a problem with the control unit and I'll have to send it in for repair...won't be able to show it off this month :-( I'll bring...
I've added a folder to the Photos section entitled 'FrankB'. In it you'll find a few CCD images I've taken so far with my SBIG ST-5C camera. These were taken...
Frank, I've been through your posts and they're great, thanks. Did you get out last night? I was out from 10:30 until 1:45 and found 18 deep sky objects. Barre...
I've added a post to the files section that contains a XL file of our observing list. This file contains a column that identifies which observing list the item...
I did get out, but without the scope. With my control board in the shop I didn't bother to set up the scope. Instead, my wife and I laid out on the driveway...
This is one place that any person with a scope from this area needs to go during a new moon. Harold and myself were there Sat. June 8. There were around 10 or...
Barre, Awesome! I've seen both M51 and NGC4565, though neither from a dark site. From my driveway with the C8, M51 looks like two dim snake eyes...none of...
Frank, To observe a Skunk you have to be very quick and up wind. It's one of those objects that you do not want to sneak up on you. Barre ... dark ... it ... ...
As of today, the Catawba Valley Astronomy Club has ceased operation. At the CVAC meeting on Thursday, June 13 club founder Greg Kirby presented the club...
Hey all, I've entered a couple of my pix in an astrophoto contest for the sct- users Yahoo group. They're just ol' boring black and white pix of the moon, but...
The July Gaston County Skywatchers meeting scheduled for the 4th has been moved to the 11th to avoid conflict with the holiday. Hope to see you all there. Otto...
MARS MEETS JUPITER At 9:18 a.m. EDT on the 3rd, Mars passes less than a degree from Jupiter. Try spotting these two planets very low in the west-northwest...
