Just do it Joe, ask people to contact you (at a SLAS meeting if you like) and if you get enough people to equally share the cost, then charter one. You will have difficulty getting the majority of SLAS members to have SLAS subsidize it. No one objects to you organizing a charter, the only objection is SLAS footing the bill.
I have to admit -- as much as I hate to -- that Chuck may be onto a good solution. Maybe I'll just shut about a bus from now on. -- Joe
________________________________ From: Chuck Hards <chuck.hards@gmail.com> To: Utah Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Friday, August 23, 2013 5:51 AM Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] 2017 Eclipse Preview
I haven't completely ruled-out going on Joe's bus, but it's not the highest option on my list. After hearing Lowell at the SLAS meeting, I'm considering booking a room at the ALCON hotel, arriving a bit early and maybe staying a day or two afterwards to avoid the crowds on the roads. Having my own car will make me MUCH more mobile than the bus, with a quicker reaction time, in case of localized clouds. I also want to wait and see if there are two seats available on any private aircraft that may be headed up that way for just a day trip.
I plan on keeping my equipment load to a minimum. Probably take the Teletrack alt-az GoTo and a small-aperture tandem setup, both white light and H-a on the same mount. I want to shoot a continuous HD video, then I can grab individual frames for stacking stills later on, and don't have to be constantly messing with a still camera. It can just sit there and run while I watch with my eyes. Total equipment weight under 30 lbs. I may roll-up a white sheet and stuff it in my equipment bag, to lay on the ground to try and see shadow bands.
And a list of local bars if the whole western US is clouded-out.
On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 3:58 PM, Brent Watson <brentjwatson@yahoo.com>wrote:
I don't want to fan any flames, but a bus is the least comfortable, claustrophbic means of transportation known to man.
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