As you know, earlier this year the state decided to adopt Daylight Savings Time. But the decision of which counties will stay in the Eastern time zone and...
The schedule for the year is now on PGO's website (and shown below). <http://indianastars.us/schedule.html> We've added some Friday nights this year. All times...
Reminder from the Calendar of pg_obs http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pg_obs/cal Open House Saturday March 25, 2006 7:30 pm - 12:00 am (This event does not...
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Construction of the dome to house the refractor donated last year by Buck Harley will start on Sunday, April 23. Volunteers to help with the construction...
A slight change in plans, and many details... The original plan was to start Saturday, but we'll be using the camp's tractor, which has an auger attachment, to...
Looks like we _will_ have the auger available Saturday morning, so we'll be starting at 8 am. -John ... camp's ... make ... so I ... grounds ... wait ... since...
Reminder from the Calendar of pg_obs http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pg_obs/cal Open House Saturday April 22, 2006 9:00 pm - 12:00 am (This event does not...
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Comet Schwassmann-Wachmann 3 will be passing near earth over the next few weeks, but it's not just one comet- it broke up about 10 years ago and now forms a...
Construction on the dome for the new refractor has gone fast so far. Last weekend we dug the holes and got the basic frame of the building together, and put...
Last weekend we put in the floors, and the walls are about finished, so this weekend we'll be painting the inside walls. That means those with no construction...
Yahoogroups was flooded by mail from a virus when I sent this Friday, so it never went through. Here it is again. (update- the painting is done. Now we're...
The weather forecast is not inspiring and Russ is gone this weekend, so I'm not scheduling anything definite for construction this weekend. I'll let you know...
Well it hasn't rained since I got up so I'm heading out to PGO. (at about 10:45am Saturday- in case Yahoo has another big delay in distributing messages) -John...
... Bill Hayward came out Sunday and we finished some details on the roof corners and then put steel siding on three of the four walls. Other than that I've...
Reminder from the Calendar of pg_obs http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pg_obs/cal Open House Friday May 26, 2006 9:00 pm - 12:00 am (This event does not repeat.) ...
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Work continues this Saturday at 9am, Sunday at 11am. Last weekend we built the wheelchair ramp and (nearly) finished the steel siding on the front. 1 trim...
..this weekend, Saturday at 9, Sunday at 11am. Last weekend we finished painting the interior, finished and installed the door, and built the main arches of...
Last weekend the dome becase three dimensional when we attached the main shutter arches to the base ring, and added some ribs. On Monday and Tuesday I added...
<http://indianastars.us/starparty> As you may know, NIAGfest is no more, so GREATCon (convention of the Great Lakes Region of the Astronomical Society) will be...
Progress was slow this week due to rain over the weekend. Also, some of the plywood that the ribs were cut from had warped from all the rain earlier in May,...
Reminder from the Calendar of pg_obs http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pg_obs/cal Open House Friday June 23, 2006 9:30 pm - 12:30 am (This event does not repeat.) ...
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Sorry I forgot to mention this earlier, but Turkey Run and Shades state parks are having an Astronomy Day this Saturday (this weekend's PGO open house is...
Progress was slow again this week due to rain on Sunday and high heat the rest of the time, but we finished trimming around the shutter opening on Saturday and...
FYI, There was a little piece on the front page of the Lafayette J&C about the longest day (yesterday) and the time change impact on different activities. If...
We got about half the "skin" panels in place this weekend. A few others were done earlier, so we're more than half done. I've also started on the shutters. ...
Yahoo ate my first copy of this, so here's the condensed version, since I have only a few minutes: We have about 1 day's work left on the dome before painting...
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