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May 1, 2006 11:06 am
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Glad to hear you're getting out, Renato. Dennis Beckley, Alvin Huey, and I are heading back from TSP. See Cloudy Nights' Specialty Forums, Astro...
Out of curiousity, where's Lake Sonoma? ram_ses2 <ram_ses2@...> wrote: I will be at Grey Pine tonight at Lake Sonoma. I should be there on or after 8 pm...
I would have been there Jim... But wife said I had to chose between groceries and gas for trip up. Well..you know there was no real "choice" involved but a...
... Sorry we missed you, Dax, but you raise a really good point: We all make social tradeoffs in this hobby. Except for what happens at an actual remote site,...
It's about 5 or 6 miles due east of Geyserville on Highway 101 (north of Healdsburg). It's hecka-far from Sacramento (and Davis). Plus it's not really a dark...
I'm fairly new to this site (until this week, it's been raining ever since I joined this Group), but just out of curiousity, aren't there any observing sites...
... It depends on what you mean by "close". The closest I want to be is about 60 miles away. There are three decent (more or less) sites in this range: Blue...
West of Healdsburg. ... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ** Shneor Sherman ******** Davis Community Network...
In further response to Greg, if you want to see anything, you have to be far from populated areas. The further away, the better. Some cities show light domes...
... Count me among those astronomers with an affinity for birding. Hey, ya gotta do *something* while waiting for the sun to set. -Ray [Non-text portions of...
(quotes from the TAC list) Rashad Al-Mansour said another mouthful, ... This is the man who years ago said, "Starhopping gives me a headache." Another longterm...
There was talk about looking for the little chunks flying off the main pieces. It takes the Hubble to see those. That said, the Hubble shots are wonderful. ...
... Correct. Whatever Richard was describing was not the GRS. Smaller spots form and dissipate all the time, however. Another spot, colored pale red, has...
Thanks Randy. While a small group of us gets together at a "dark" site north of Vacaville, anywhere in the Sacramento Valley itself isn't dark enough. I'm...
Last Saturday night at Lake Sonoma (4/29/06), I took a quick look at the galaxy NGC 4756 in Corvus (12 52.9, -15 25) in my 18-inch Starmaster. At mag 12.4V,...
... That is cool. Perhaps you could create an annex to the Hickson catalog. ... How cool is that? ... Corvus was well placed last Saturday night. This sounds...
Unfortunately when I started observing the field, Corvus was already well past the meridian and sliding down in the southwest in the direction of a large tree...
Oops, forgot the clean out Steve's previous message, I usually take the latest, hit reply all and clean out everything. Too lazy to type in the e-mail...
All, Returned from TSP '06. It was very nice. 6/7 nights were useable Sunday night - first 2/3rds of the night was good. Monday night - all nighter, but night...
Last time I'd logged a new DSO was the night of 19 January. Been out enough times, 7 times since the New Year, but with less than ideal conditions. Saturday...
... We have adjusted our database to resolve this discrepancy. Thank you for your effort to correct the fixed and eternal record for the benefit of those who...
... For those having heard of the infamous Hickson's but not sure of the criteria – 1) population - at least 4 members with their brightness within a ...
Sorry to bug everybody again, but we're seeing very few votes come in for the SSP t-shirt contest. We wanted to be sure people aren't under the mistaken...
... Goddess, the contest page doesn't have a link nor an address for voting. So folks should vote by telepathy? The link you just put on your reminder note, ...
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