... Purpose TAC-SAC (The Astronomy Connection - Sacramento) is a group for active amateur astronomers ranging from beginners to advanced observers who observe...
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Dec 2, 2006 5:17 am
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Saturday 6:00pm PST Lunar halo is showing really bright colors from the prism. Blue, yellow, orange, red....Nice! Glenn T. Chico, CA....
Many of you may have seen this already, but Saturday before dawn, Mars, Mercury and Jupiter will provide some real eye candy if the clouds break. Here is the...
Just for the record, the closest grouping is on Sunday morning, not Saturday. About 30 minutes before sunrise on Sunday, all three planets will be within one...
A quick update on donations from amateur astronomers to the Second Harvest Food Bank (started on TAC last week). We have over $300 so far. Donations of all...
Mark Wagner
mark.wagner@...
Dec 8, 2006 9:55 pm
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Being bored on a rainy day .. I ran into this term. Asperger syndrome Looked it up on Wikipedia.. WoooooHoooo!! Man, I think this applies to some of rabid...
... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asperger_syndrome is one of five neurobiological pervasive developmental disorders (PDD) that is characterized by deficiencies...
Yup... I guess my lame attempt at humor failed. I must have AS. Look further down past the medical gobbly-goop.. Ok, here is the interesting part with an Astro...
... I thought it was funny -- and accurate. I just wanted to include a snippet so people could see what it was about. I don't think I know any amateur...
New moon in on Dec. 20 and moonset on the 22nd is around 7 p.m. The forecast for the night of the 22nd (a Friday) looks like it may be usable, either at IHOP...
... challenged in some particular way or another. Speak for yourself, ZZ. But seriously, you boys just stumbled onto something I do for a living. I've had 6...
Weather may not permit it (looks like we're in the pattern of overcast, fog, rain, etc., that won't let up until April), but isn't there a viewing site at...
... To be a compact group of women, wouldn't they need to be in close proximity, like a compact group of galaxies? You couldn't say M31, M32 and M101 are a...
Mark Wagner
mark.wagner@...
Dec 14, 2006 7:50 pm
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... No way Mark! The TAC women are far closer together than the members of Stephen's Quintet, and by a fair margin to boot. ... I think you're thinking of...
... No, I am thinking about amateur astronomers (although women soccer players are a pleasant thought!). While Stephen's Quintet may be widely separated in...
Mark Wagner
mark.wagner@...
Dec 14, 2006 9:08 pm
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Today is the last day for the Second Harvest Food Bank donations from the amateur astronomy community (that reads TAC). I had hoped we'd get about $1 per...
Mark Wagner
mark.wagner@...
Dec 15, 2006 9:56 pm
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Thanks Mark for spear heading this collection. Michelle ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
I'm planning to head over to Lake Sonoma tomorrow (Monday) night. As it's fully dark before 6:30, I'm hoping to catch some quality hours before it gets...
Current forecasts for Friday night are best for Fiddletown. I'm tentatively planning for Fiddletown Friday night. Has anyone been there recently? What's the...
As the weather has turned ugly again, I'm glad I took advantage of the window of clear skies on Monday. In the afternoon I headed over to Lake Sonoma from the...
II noticed that CSC has again changed with a reaonable forecast for tonight for IHOP and Fiddletown. I checked with the IHOP Ranger - Icehouse Road is mostly...
... OH BURRRRRRRR..... if you go to IHOP you'll end up a pillar of ice. It was 27 degrees in Davis a few nights ago, so I can't even imagine where the mercury...
Hope everybody is having a great holiday season! Going through my new 2007 calendar this evening, filling in the new moons and looking ahead. Clicking around...
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