Mark Cedar Breaks is 10,000 feet in elevation and they have regularly scheduled astronomical viewing of some sort in the summer, but I don't know the details. University of Southern Utah, located in Cedar City, has a Professor Sorensen, friend of Lowell Lyons, who was doing a monthly star party up there in the parking lot. That was a few years ago, but I'm sure he is still active. It should be a great place to view. Cedar City is a light bump to the west. I viewed the May "Ring of Fire" from Cedar Breaks. Normally they are not open that early. I'm sure they have a web site. Even if not at Cedar Breaks, there are a number of spots on the plateau that you can pull off the road and set up. Oh, and by the way, the sky is terrific from there :) Joan
Thank you for the information. Here in st George it is actually hot. It's around 80 right now. I spent about an hour looking at the sun and Sent from my iPhone On Mar 29, 2013, at 12:49 PM, jcarman6@q.com wrote:
Mark
Cedar Breaks is 10,000 feet in elevation and they have regularly scheduled astronomical viewing of some sort in the summer, but I don't know the details. University of Southern Utah, located in Cedar City, has a Professor Sorensen, friend of Lowell Lyons, who was doing a monthly star party up there in the parking lot. That was a few years ago, but I'm sure he is still active. It should be a great place to view. Cedar City is a light bump to the west. I viewed the May "Ring of Fire" from Cedar Breaks. Normally they are not open that early. I'm sure they have a web site. Even if not at Cedar Breaks, there are a number of spots on the plateau that you can pull off the road and set up.
Oh, and by the way, the sky is terrific from there :)
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80 isn't hot, it's just about perfect. 95 is hot. ;-) I'm going to make another try at the sun this afternoon myself, if the clouds stay away. I still want to try the bino-viewer on the PST. Every time I've had the time, it's been totally overcast. Might get a break today. You're not going to want to come home again, Mark, you're having too much fun! On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 2:54 PM, Mark Shelton <astroshelton@yahoo.com>wrote:
Thank you for the information. Here in st George it is actually hot. It's around 80 right now. I spent about an hour looking at the sun and
Dad, me, and another guy who's name escapes me right now (Brad?) spent the day at my daughter's school doing solar observing with the kids. The sun is really active right now, nots of prominences, flares, spots, etc. if you can, it's good viewing right now. Dan -- Sent from my iPhone. Please pardon any mispelings or errors. On Mar 29, 2013, at 3:23 PM, Chuck Hards <chuck.hards@gmail.com> wrote:
80 isn't hot, it's just about perfect. 95 is hot. ;-)
I'm going to make another try at the sun this afternoon myself, if the clouds stay away. I still want to try the bino-viewer on the PST. Every time I've had the time, it's been totally overcast. Might get a break today.
You're not going to want to come home again, Mark, you're having too much fun!
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Thank you for the information. Here in st George it is actually hot. It's around 80 right now. I spent about an hour looking at the sun and
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You actually saw a flare? White-light, or H-a? I've never seen a visual solar flare in my life. Did you have the Drum Bus this year? ;-) On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 3:31 PM, Daniel Holmes <danielh@holmesonics.com>wrote:
Dad, me, and another guy who's name escapes me right now (Brad?) spent the day at my daughter's school doing solar observing with the kids.
The sun is really active right now, nots of prominences, flares, spots, etc. if you can, it's good viewing right now.
Ha. I'll have to double check spaceweather, but there is a pretty large grouping that brightened up through the day that I'd be surprised if that didn't flare--might just be a couple of coronal holes. Then on the limb there was a large storm that appeared to flare. Granted, I could and probably am wrong, but take a look and you tell me what you think. Dan -- Sent from my iPhone. Please pardon any mispelings or errors. On Mar 29, 2013, at 3:38 PM, Chuck Hards <chuck.hards@gmail.com> wrote:
You actually saw a flare? White-light, or H-a? I've never seen a visual solar flare in my life.
Did you have the Drum Bus this year? ;-)
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Dad, me, and another guy who's name escapes me right now (Brad?) spent the day at my daughter's school doing solar observing with the kids.
The sun is really active right now, nots of prominences, flares, spots, etc. if you can, it's good viewing right now.
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pretty sure I saw one (observing daily for 3 months). It also seemed associated with a CME.
You actually saw a flare? White-light, or H-a? I've never seen a
visual solar flare in my life.
Did you have the Drum Bus this year? ;-)
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Dad, me, and another guy who's name escapes me right now (Brad?) spent the day at my daughter's school doing solar observing with the kids.
The sun is really active right now, nots of prominences, flares, spots, etc. if you can, it's good viewing right now.
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Finally got some good double star viewing in. Seeing was typical desert conditions but got good views the AL doubles star list from Alpha Leonis down to Mu Bootis, with the exception of N Hydrae. Also viewed 24 Coma Berences that was on Tyler Allred's website. Good yellow/blue wide double, similar to Albireo. I've heard the astronomers in Cedar City go up to the radar towers on a dirt road before you get to Cedar Breaks. I heard about it on Cloudy Nights. It would be an overnight trip for me. If it were me, I would camp at the campground near Cedar Breaks because that area is crawling with deer and other critters. We almost hit a porcupine one year traveling back to Duck Creek Village a few years ago. It is pretty dark there if you can get away from the car lights near the road. Debbie On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 5:30 PM, <erikhansen@thebluezone.net> wrote:
pretty sure I saw one (observing daily for 3 months). It also seemed associated with a CME.
You actually saw a flare? White-light, or H-a? I've never seen a
visual solar flare in my life.
Did you have the Drum Bus this year? ;-)
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Dad, me, and another guy who's name escapes me right now (Brad?) spent the day at my daughter's school doing solar observing with the kids.
The sun is really active right now, nots of prominences, flares, spots, etc. if you can, it's good viewing right now.
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Debbie, if you did hit it, at least you'd have dinner! ;-) The late Dick Proenneke sometimes ate porcupine while living in his Alaskan wilderness cabin for nearly 30 years. They had a tendency to gnaw on his cabin and woodshed, causing much damage. He live-trapped and deported most of them to the opposite side of the lake, but he wasn't above eating a young, tender one. He was especially fond of the liver, comparing it to seal liver. During a visit with Dick one summer in the mid-seventies, he wrote in his journal that his brother, upon trying porcupine for the first time, couldn't decide if it tasted more like Iowa rabbit or Iowa squirrel. The brothers grew-up in depression-era rural Iowa in a large family. Folks weren't so picky about where their dinner came from in those days. Meat was sometimes a luxury. On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 1:01 PM, Debbie <astrodeb@beyondbb.com> wrote:
We almost hit a porcupine one year traveling back to Duck Creek Village a few years ago.
Anyone here remember seeing a white light flare at a Harmon's Sun party many years ago? I remember seeing the flare develop. I'd never seen a white light flare before (or since) and for a moment wondered if something very bad was about to happen. It didn't take long and the flare ran its course. But it was an impressive site while it lasted. If memory serves, such a flare was seen just before the Carrington (sp?) Event back in the 1850s but I don't remember a similar thing happening after the flare I saw. patrick On 29 Mar 2013, at 15:38, Chuck Hards wrote:
You actually saw a flare? White-light, or H-a? I've never seen a visual solar flare in my life.
Did you have the Drum Bus this year? ;-)
On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 3:31 PM, Daniel Holmes <danielh@holmesonics.com>wrote:
Dad, me, and another guy who's name escapes me right now (Brad?) spent the day at my daughter's school doing solar observing with the kids.
The sun is really active right now, nots of prominences, flares, spots, etc. if you can, it's good viewing right now.
Oh, yes, I remember that day. My telegraph caught fire. On Mar 29, 2013 9:50 PM, "Patrick Wiggins" <paw@wirelessbeehive.com> wrote:
Anyone here remember seeing a white light flare at a Harmon's Sun party many years ago?
I remember seeing the flare develop. I'd never seen a white light flare before (or since) and for a moment wondered if something very bad was about to happen.
It didn't take long and the flare ran its course. But it was an impressive site while it lasted.
If memory serves, such a flare was seen just before the Carrington (sp?) Event back in the 1850s but I don't remember a similar thing happening after the flare I saw.
patrick
On 29 Mar 2013, at 15:38, Chuck Hards wrote:
You actually saw a flare? White-light, or H-a? I've never seen a visual solar flare in my life.
Did you have the Drum Bus this year? ;-)
On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 3:31 PM, Daniel Holmes <danielh@holmesonics.com wrote:
Dad, me, and another guy who's name escapes me right now (Brad?) spent the day at my daughter's school doing solar observing with the kids.
The sun is really active right now, nots of prominences, flares, spots, etc. if you can, it's good viewing right now.
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Telegraph? Luxury. We were using smoke signals from the flames generated by the solar flare. And we were happy. Dan -- Sent from an iPad. There should be less mispelings, but more errors. On Mar 29, 2013, at 10:27 PM, Chuck Hards <chuck.hards@gmail.com> wrote:
Oh, yes, I remember that day. My telegraph caught fire. On Mar 29, 2013 9:50 PM, "Patrick Wiggins" <paw@wirelessbeehive.com> wrote:
Anyone here remember seeing a white light flare at a Harmon's Sun party many years ago?
I remember seeing the flare develop. I'd never seen a white light flare before (or since) and for a moment wondered if something very bad was about to happen.
It didn't take long and the flare ran its course. But it was an impressive site while it lasted.
If memory serves, such a flare was seen just before the Carrington (sp?) Event back in the 1850s but I don't remember a similar thing happening after the flare I saw.
patrick
On 29 Mar 2013, at 15:38, Chuck Hards wrote:
You actually saw a flare? White-light, or H-a? I've never seen a visual solar flare in my life.
Did you have the Drum Bus this year? ;-)
On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 3:31 PM, Daniel Holmes <danielh@holmesonics.com wrote:
Dad, me, and another guy who's name escapes me right now (Brad?) spent the day at my daughter's school doing solar observing with the kids.
The sun is really active right now, nots of prominences, flares, spots, etc. if you can, it's good viewing right now.
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Hey, I was on the cutting-edge of hi-tech. My ma and pa used to get mad because I spent the whole day telegraphing my friends, even when they were in the next room. On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 2:54 PM, Daniel Holmes <danielh@holmesonics.com>wrote:
Telegraph? Luxury. We were using smoke signals from the flames generated by the solar flare.
And we were happy.
before the days of proper grounding? CME's are still responsible for many widespread power outages, they just don't start fires anymore.
Hey, I was on the cutting-edge of hi-tech. My ma and pa used to get mad
because I spent the whole day telegraphing my friends, even when they were in the next room.
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Telegraph? Luxury. We were using smoke signals from the flames generated by the solar flare.
And we were happy.
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My perfect temp. Is 68. 80 is hot to me. 95, is almost unbearable. I really hate hot and humid weather. When I was solar observing this afternoon there were a few prominences But the sun was not as active as yesterday. Still very fun to observe and I had bank customers looking and lots of my wife's family there. There was one man that was 92, he was just dumbfounded when he saw the sun and some spots etc. that makes all the effort of setting up well worth it. The Coronado is actually my wife's scope, she just lets me us it. Not kidding. Mark Sent from my iPhone On Mar 29, 2013, at 3:23 PM, Chuck Hards <chuck.hards@gmail.com> wrote:
80 isn't hot, it's just about perfect. 95 is hot. ;-)
I'm going to make another try at the sun this afternoon myself, if the clouds stay away. I still want to try the bino-viewer on the PST. Every time I've had the time, it's been totally overcast. Might get a break today.
You're not going to want to come home again, Mark, you're having too much fun!
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Thank you for the information. Here in st George it is actually hot. It's around 80 right now. I spent about an hour looking at the sun and
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get back to SLC quickly if mid 60's are ideal for you, Mark
My perfect temp. Is 68. 80 is hot to me. 95, is almost unbearable. I
really hate hot and humid weather. When I was solar observing this afternoon there were a few prominences But the sun was not as active as yesterday. Still very fun to observe and I had bank customers looking and lots of my wife's family there. There was one man that was 92, he was just dumbfounded when he saw the sun and some spots etc. that makes all the effort of setting up well worth it. The Coronado is actually my wife's scope, she just lets me us it. Not kidding.
Mark Sent from my iPhone
On Mar 29, 2013, at 3:23 PM, Chuck Hards <chuck.hards@gmail.com> wrote:
80 isn't hot, it's just about perfect. 95 is hot. ;-)
I'm going to make another try at the sun this afternoon myself, if the clouds stay away. I still want to try the bino-viewer on the PST. Every time I've had the time, it's been totally overcast. Might get a break today.
You're not going to want to come home again, Mark, you're having too much fun!
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Thank you for the information. Here in st George it is actually hot. It's around 80 right now. I spent about an hour looking at the sun and
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