Aaron, yes, definitely bring your scope.  Learning to find things with a
scope is the hardest part of getting started in astronomy.  It's an
unfortunate fact of this hobby that the majority of people make the mistake
of starting with a cheap scope on a flimsy mount and end up giving up in
frustration.  Your scope has a more solid mount which will help.
-John

>From: "tinamglaser" <theglasers@...>
>Reply-To: pg_obs@yahoogroups.com
>To: <pg_obs@yahoogroups.com>
>Subject: [pg_obs] Help!
>Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2002 17:20:59 -0500
>
>         Hi everyone,
>
>             I am a fourteen year old that got an Orion skyquest xt8 for
>Christmas and I am having trouble finding objects. I am able to find the
>Pleiades, M42, the double cluster in Perseus and a few other things. I was
>wondering if I could get some assistance this Saturday. I plan to come up
>to Prairie grass.
>
>                                                 Thanks,
>                                                     Aaron Glaser
>
>
>theglasers@...


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Yes, the normal starting time is in the evening, but for anyone wondering
why that's not obvious, we will occasionally be using our solar filter in
the daytime.  This weekend, however, Purdue is holding its Springfest (Bug
Bowl, etc.) and the Wabash Valley Astronomical Society will be there with
some scopes set up for solar observing, so the WVAS has borrowed the filter
for the weekend.  So if you want to see solar flares first-hand show up on
the Purdue campus during the daytime (just west of Stewart Center, I think;
we'll be with the Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Dept.)  Springfest is a
daytime event and ends at 4pm, so you have time to get dinner and then go
out to PGO on Saturday evening.
I think most likely we will schedule some solar observing later in the
summer on dates already scheduled for night-time observing.  Since the sun
goes down later you could come after dinner and still have time for solar
observing.  Viewing conditions would be better earlier in the day (looking
through less atmosphere when the sun is higher) though, so we'll probably do
some in the middle of the day too.
-John Mahony


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>Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2002 08:30:13 -0500
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>Is this 8:30 in the evening?
>   -----Original Message-----
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>   Open house this Saturday, April 13th at 8:30!  Hope to see you there.
>Another open house will be Wednesday, April 17th at 8:30. Russ Kaspar
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I dont know.... Should i know????  Are you going??


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Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2002 08:30:13 -0500

Is this 8:30 in the evening?
    -----Original Message-----
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    Open house this Saturday, April 13th at 8:30!  Hope to see you there.
Another open house will be Wednesday, April 17th at 8:30. Russ Kaspar

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Subject: [pg_obs] open house

Open house this Saturday, April 13th at 8:30!  Hope to see you there.  Another open house will be Wednesday, April 17th at 8:30. Russ Kaspar

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John, this site was mentioned in the Indy Star and it is a good one.

www.northern-lights.no.

Later, Dania Remaly

Except for one of the solar pictures (an earlier 35mm film picture), all the
new ones were taken with a simple digital camera that's basically all
automatic, so there weren't any settings to adjust.  I had a small bracket
that held the camera in position over the eyepiece to avoid shaking the
camera/telescope.  Other than that, it was all just "point-and-shoot"
photography, with a range of eyepieces used for different magnification.
-John


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>Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 08:36:47 -0500
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>John:
>    What kind of camera / settings are you using? Which telescope?
>
>John Mahony wrote:
>
> > Some astrophotography taken with a digital camera are now available on
>the
> > PGO website at
>http://www.geocities.com/jmmahony/pgo/photo/astrophoto.html
> > -John
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John:
    What kind of camera / settings are you using? Which telescope?

John Mahony wrote:

> Some astrophotography taken with a digital camera are now available on the
> PGO website at http://www.geocities.com/jmmahony/pgo/photo/astrophoto.html
> -John
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Some astrophotography taken with a digital camera are now available on the
PGO website at http://www.geocities.com/jmmahony/pgo/photo/astrophoto.html
-John

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I'll be out at the observatory about 3 today using our new solar filter.
I've got a new digital camera and want to try it with a bracket I made (for
an old binocular mount) that may hold the camera in place over the eyepiece
for photography.  If the weather holds I'll stay out there till evening for
planetary photography.  Hand-held planet photos with the camera worked last
week, but the camera meeds to be held more steadily for good detail.  If
you've got a digital camera with 1/4" tripod screw-hole and want some
pictures bring it with you.
-John

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Report on Solar viewing session Saturday January 26.  Wow!  Over 150 people
for Daytime Session and at least 75 for the night session.  Thanks to John
Mahony and Ed Harfmann who came over to help.  Ed had ETX with Sun in white
light, Russ was on the H-Alpha and John demoed the power of the 16"...and
all of us were busy " 'til sundown".  Thanks for your offer to help, Alan.
As it turned out we could have used another hand on the binoculars, but we
survived.

Russ:
   Need or want any help?

Russell Kaspar wrote:

> We will open the 12" telecope side for solar observing session for the
> Klondike Derby Saturday afternoon, January 26th.  The Scouts will be first
> priority but there should be opportunity to view the sun between the Scouts
> and the Clouds.  : )  Target time: 1:30-3:30PM  Russ Kaspar.
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We will open the 12" telecope side for solar observing session for the
Klondike Derby Saturday afternoon, January 26th.  The Scouts will be first
priority but there should be opportunity to view the sun between the Scouts
and the Clouds.  : )  Target time: 1:30-3:30PM  Russ Kaspar.

The first photos taken through our new H-alpha solar filter are available on
our website beam.to/pgo  These are first efforts and are much less dramatic
than what is visible directly through the eyepiece.
-John Mahony

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I will be out at PGO about 2:30 today using our new solar filter.
-John

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There will be a partial solar eclipse today (late afternoon through sunset).
   We recently purchased an H-alpha filter, which is a specialized solar
filter that shows much more than just sunspots.  This filter will show solar
flares and many other details.  The sun is near the peak of its 11 year
activity cycle, so flares are common right now.  Russ and I will be at the
observatory today starting about 3 p.m.
-John
P.S.  the sun's activity was responsible for last month's great Northern
Lights display.  If you missed it, pictures taken from the observatory are
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The observatory will be open tonight.
-John

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The observatory will be open tonight.
-John Mahony

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Russ will be opening up the observatory tonight.
Also our first astrophoto (the Andromeda Galaxy) is now on the PGO
website.
(Russ, I didn't see your message so I decided to re-post.  Sometimes
yahoo gets messed up and messages take awhile, so I hope this makes it
out in time).
-John

Some pictures of Monday night's incredible Northern Lights display that I
took at Camp Cullom are now posted on the observatory website at
http://www.geocities.com/jmmahony/pgo/aurora/aurora.html
-John Mahony

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I'll be opening up the observatory tonight.
-John Mahony

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I will be at the observatory tonight.  Anyone interested is invited to show
up.  There is a Northern Lights alert tonight.  The alert I saw was very
optimistic about how far south they may be seen, although the moon will
start to interfere a little after 9 pm.
-John Mahony

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Russ,
The messages posted through this group can be viewed by anyone by going to
the pg_obs yahoogroup site at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pg_obs -They
don't have to join the list to see the messages (there is a link to this
from our regular website).  So this way anyone can find out if we will be
out there.  I did that because if you or another qualified user is going to
be out there and wants to let the public know but can't get in touch with
me, there's no way to put a notice on our regular website.  If we get enough
qualified scope users we may eventually want to start a separate private
maillist (like the WVAS yahoo group, which can only be viewed by members).
-John


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>Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2001 17:11:27 -0500
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>This will be great.  On short notice we will be able to let the growing
>"group" know we are having an active night at PGO.
>
>Thanks, John.
>
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This will be great.  On short notice we will be able to let the growing
"group" know we are having an active night at PGO.

Thanks, John.

rk