My name is Erik Mourtgos,
I'm a college student at BYU majoring in choral education.  I've been dabbling in Astronomy since December, due to the cold however, I did not get that much observation done in the winter.  It is warming up however, and I have been outside more.  I am really a beginner .  I only have some 12X50 binoculars and a tripod.  If a star party is getting thrown together, I would love to go.  Could you let me know where these places are.  Thanks!

Erik J. Mourtgos



John and Lisa Zeigler wrote:
For those of you not going down to St. George, John and I thought we
would give a star party on Fri, or Sat night. We could go to the Pit n'
Pole, or we could meet somewhere closer to town. If we meet someplace a
bit closer in, we will have more people come out to see the stars. There
is a place near Harriman in SL county, but still close to UT county that
may be a good sight. What does everyone else think?

Lisa Zeigler
www.johnstelescopes.com
www.mirrorkits.com




-----Original Message-----
From: David Trevino [mailto:dotrevino@yahoo.com] 
Sent: Monday, March 15, 2004 9:21 AM
To: Utah Valley Astronomy Association
Subject: Re: [UVAA] Workshop


I too would love for someone to demostrate and teach a
few things.  I fall into the newbie category, so I
have lots to learn.  I am in John's class, so I'll be
learning how to grind my own mirror and building a
dobsonian.

I didn't make it to the impromptu meeting last
Thursday night, but this coming Saturday my schedule
is favorable (the weather forecast sounds good and I
think it is also a new moon).

--- Jim Gibson <jimgibson00@yahoo.com> wrote:
  
 

You know what I think would be fun is some evening
before dark meet out at the Pit 'n Pole or the
Gravel Pit and have a workshop while the sun is
still up. I was thinking of doing something like
this in connection with UVAA. Since UVAA doesn't
have regular meetings and I get all the meetings I
need at SLAS it would be kind of nice to see
everybody's face in the light and people can
demonstrate some aspect of astronomy that works for
them; just basic stuff.  You know, bring your Subway sandwiches and 
munch while for a while, nothing really formal.

 

The problem with suggesting such a thing usually
means the suggestor gets the job, and I don't mind
as long as it doesn't become a regular job. It would
probably fizzle after a while, after the willing in
the group had their chance, but what the hey.

 

There seems to be a lot of new blood in Utah Valley
and "Old Timers" like Rich Tenney could teach us a
lot (he he he). Actually everybody ought to have
something that works for them and could demonstrate
it.  We ought to be able to show how collimation
basics are really done - with and with out a laser
pointer. We ought to spend some time (after the sun
goes down) just pointing out constellations. We
ought to show what sky chats work well, what
interesting objects are in current constellations,
what comets are around, asteroids, telescope
building, binoculars,  all kinds of fun things.

 

I am thinking that it would have to be on an off
weekend when SLAS wasn't having a Star Party and the
moon didn't come up till after 10 or 11 or
something.  Or when the moon goes down at 2AM we
could meet at 2:30 AM - uhhh. What? No taker on that
one.

 

Just throwing this out to everyone on the list to
see if there is any interest. This could beat the
heck out of a meeting. Even Rob on Maui could come,
or better yet, Rob could through down some futons
and we will visit him.

 

Jim

 

 

 


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