Hello Astros, I have improved the "Fair Weather Astronomy" section at http://www.oarval.org/meteorologFL.htm#FWA to extend the Calendar of Astronomical Events...
Weather looks like last weekend, threfore, we are planning to head out the missile site near royal palm. If it looks like midway might be better and decide to...
WOW--now THAT is a superb "observatory"----all 13 pgs. Now to replace my ink cartridge! That puts our SCAS Website in the tank!! Hope we can link up at the...
BarbYager@...
Aug 2, 2008 8:47 pm
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Thanks, Barb, see you there. Andres From: BarbYager@... Sent: Saturday, August 02, 2008 16:47 To: scasmail@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [scasmail] Improved...
Pls send me your Perseid Meteor Shower report. Best viewing times after 2 a.m. Moonset until dawn Tuesday 12th-Wednesday 13th, or any night prior or following...
BarbYager@...
Aug 11, 2008 1:35 pm
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Hi Barb, I observed 8 Perseid meteors between 02:30 and 03:30 while observing towards the East. There was some thin high-cloud cover, getting worse. ...
Hi Andres, Thx for your Perseid update. Between 4:30-6 a.m. Tuesday, saw 5 from Kendall backyard. Three were 5th magn. and hardly visible; two were 2nd magn....
BarbYager@...
Aug 12, 2008 2:01 pm
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From the "Tampa, FL" Division of SCAS, I was out with members of The Local Group from Bradenton, FL, in eastern Manatee County at their dark sky site called...
OK, me missed one! After combing through 256 photos I shot last night, I found one picture with a faint Perseid on it! Whoopee!! Just goes to show ya, shooting...
FYI to the group, In case you are not aware of it, the Chiefland Astronomy Village Fall Star Party has returned! Tom Crowley and John Novak are co-hosting this...
Hurricane Hunters just reported inflight: Tropical Storm Gustav has just formed south of Hispaniola and is moving NW @ 15mph. Accuweather.com has it's track...
Hurricane Hunters are still inside the storm and have now found flight level winds at 70mph. Gustav appears to be strengthening very quickly now! Hurricane...
For those who don't know Tim and Mummezzah Khan had a boy on Friday August 22 8lbs 6oz 19.5 long his name is Humzah. Mom and baby are doing fine Dad we are not...
Congratulations! And welcome to the Milky Way From: stramp76 Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2008 07:13 To: scasmail@yahoogroups.com Subject: [scasmail] It.s A Boy ...
Congratulations and best wishes go out to the entire (now growing) Khan family from the Perillo family. ... From: stramp76 To: scasmail@yahoogroups.com Sent:...
Congrats Tim.............Ididn't know you were pregnant. Now when you get woken up for those 3am feeding you will have something too do if you can't go back to...
Congrats to Tim and Mummezzah! My money is on NGC5139. I am presently at Chiefland Astronomy Village. It is 96F, mostly cloudy with a 60% chance of afternoon...
Hey Tim, congratulations to you and your family. Wishing you nothing but the best!!!!!! Post some pictures of the baby when you get a chance... Sergio...
Thanks to eveyone for your kind words, and yes I'll need to get an eyepiece in his hands for some photos! Since he is a Leo and named Humzah meaning Lion,...
Hello everybody, i just came across this pretty cool project on the web. Its a site to help classify galaxies. The site is www.galaxyzoo.com. I learned about...
Don't mean to steal your thunder! But, I have had it on the Educators Web Page for a few weeks now http://www.scas.org/scas_educators.html Art _____ From:...
FYI, Great News and another milestone for all of us Hubble Fans! Space Shuttle Atlantis left the Vehicle Assembly Building at 9am this morning for the 3.5 mile...
Space.com is reporting that NASA has slipped the launches of STS-125 and STS-126 (next two missions to launch) by 2 days each. Due to the weather delays at...
Hi Astros, Sept./Oct. Coal Sack has been sent to Webmaster Art Mullis for posting. Hope you enjoy the news and great images! Pls fwd your WSP...
BarbYager@...
Sep 6, 2008 9:35 pm
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FYI to the Group - The Sept/Oct Edition of the Coal Sack is now ready for download at http://www.scas.org/coal%20sack.html Enjoy! Art Mullis SCAS/WSP Webmaster...