There will be a repeat workshop Saturday April 24th at Fort Utah in Provo for those who missed it. It turns out we had a dry run on the 10th. About 12 people showed up, some people showed up and missed us and some people want to come but had other commitments. So, we are going to try it again. This time I will be in a white van with a parallelogram and binoculars plainly visible. John & Lisa Zeigler will be in ah white Suburban. Everybody bring lawn chairs incase we cant get the pavilion. The schedule will be as follows: April 24th Fort Provo The following is the schedule of events. 6:30 - 7:00 PM Arrive and set up 7:00 7:45 PM John Zeigler will give a workshop on the Optic Train and Collimation. Please dont setup during Johns workshop. 7:45 8:00 PM Jim Gibson will give a short presentation on moon features. Sometime after 8:00 PM the sun sets. 8:02 PM Those who came late can finish setting up. 8:02 9:00 PM people cruse the line of scopes looking at moon features and other fine objects. 9:00 9:30 PM There may be an impromptu class on constellation identification. We must clear the park by 11:00 PM. Jim Gibson --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - File online by April 15th
I'll take a note of it, but I may already have plans for the night of the 24th. However, I am thinking on going out to the Pit 'N Pole the night before (Fri. Apr. 23rd) My personal goal is to take one good look at the Orion Nebula (M42) and the Pleaides (M45) before they set for the summer. M44 should be at a good view too (and easy to find) and I hope to be able to find M13 and M51. --- Jim Gibson <jimgibson00@yahoo.com> wrote:
There will be a repeat workshop Saturday April 24th at Fort Utah in Provo for those who missed it. It turns out we had a dry run on the 10th. About 12 people showed up, some people showed up and missed us and some people want to come but had other commitments. So, we are going to try it again. This time I will be in a white van with a parallelogram and binoculars plainly visible. John & Lisa Zeigler will be in ah white Suburban. Everybody bring lawn chairs incase we cant get the pavilion.
The schedule will be as follows:
April 24th Fort Provo
The following is the schedule of events.
6:30 - 7:00 PM Arrive and set up
7:00 7:45 PM John Zeigler will give a workshop on the Optic Train and Collimation. Please dont setup during Johns workshop.
7:45 8:00 PM Jim Gibson will give a short presentation on moon features.
Sometime after 8:00 PM the sun sets.
8:02 PM Those who came late can finish setting up.
8:02 9:00 PM people cruse the line of scopes looking at moon features and other fine objects.
9:00 9:30 PM There may be an impromptu class on constellation identification.
We must clear the park by 11:00 PM.
Jim Gibson
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As you may recall, I am fairly new at star gazing. I am in John and Lisa's telescope making class, and so far I have no complaints about "pushing glass" for a few hours. I hope my telescope turns out well. In the meantime, I am looking for ideas on what to do once my telescope is complete. I came across the Astronomical League's website, and discovered the "Observing Clubs" (http://www.astroleague.org/al/obsclubs/obsclub.html) , which provide lists of activities and observation goals. (Many with an option to obtain a certificate after meeting the goals). I would like to ask to the list if anyone out there has experience with such clubs? Do you recommend some of the lists of objects (like the urban observer or the Binocular observer) as good starting points and guides for newbies like myself? I also checked out from the library "turn left at Orion", which I intend to use this summer with my trash-scope. Any other suggestions are welcome. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - File online by April 15th http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html
David, I'm nearly halfway through the Herschel-400 program, and I'm very much enjoying it (despite the frustration of having almost all of the summer objects and less than 1/3 of the winter/spring objects due to our fickle weather here). If nothing else you sharpen your observing skills, and it forces you to spend a bit more time at the eyepiece really seeing what's there. It's also a nice tour of some of the better deep sky gems out there on beyond Messier. As has already been mentioned, I'd start with the lunar and/or messier programs and expand from there. I had already observed all the messier objects (some of them dozens of times) in previous years of observing before I found out about the AL programs, so the logs I have are not in the AL required format (with the exception of a few that overlap into the H-400). I'll probably go back and do them again one of these days for consistency, and I'm fairly sure a few of the items on my M-list I've only visited once (what can I say, M-marathons are not my cup of tea). I've also done about half of the lunar program so far. FWIW, Rich --- David Trevino <dotrevino@yahoo.com> wrote:
I would like to ask the list if anyone out there has experience with such clubs?
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In case not everyone got the word the repeat workshop/moon watch will not be this Saturday April 24th. If you go to Fort Provo this Saturday night, you may be there by yourself. The next workshop/moon watch will be Saturday May 1st and will start at 7:30 PM at Fort Provo. We will try to stick to Those Saturday nights closes to or just before full moon. This schedule will generally not coincide with SPOC events or with the Harmon Star Parties. Jim Gibson --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos: High-quality 4x6 digital prints for 25¢
Jim, I think thats a great plan. We will see everyone on May 1st, bring all your eyepieces so we can do side by side comparisons. Jim can you bring your Orion 80 mm ED so we can show the difference in a refractor or a reflector? Thanks! Lisa Zeigler -----Original Message----- From: Jim Gibson [mailto:jimgibson00@yahoo.com] Sent: Friday, April 23, 2004 7:08 AM To: Utah Valley Astronomy Association Subject: Re: [UVAA] Repeat Workshop/Moonwatch In case not everyone got the word the repeat workshop/moon watch will not be this Saturday April 24th. If you go to Fort Provo this Saturday night, you may be there by yourself. The next workshop/moon watch will be Saturday May 1st and will start at 7:30 PM at Fort Provo. We will try to stick to Those Saturday nights closes to or just before full moon. This schedule will generally not coincide with SPOC events or with the Harmon Star Parties. Jim Gibson --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos: High-quality 4x6 digital prints for 25¢
John You wrote:"can you bringyour Orion 80 mm ED " Yes I will. I went to Delvee's in SLC yesterday to get some resin for some work I am doing on my new mount. I met a guy there and it turns out he is really interested in building a telescope. I told him about your classes and fortunately your web site URL is easy to remember so I told him to go to johnstelescopes.com and he could find out how to sign up for you next class. Hop he follows through. Jim John and Lisa Zeigler <john@johnstelescopes.com> wrote: Jim, I think thats a great plan. We will see everyone on May 1st, bring all your eyepieces so we can do side by side comparisons. Jim can you bring your Orion 80 mm ED so we can show the difference in a refractor or a reflector? Thanks! Lisa Zeigler -----Original Message----- From: Jim Gibson [mailto:jimgibson00@yahoo.com] Sent: Friday, April 23, 2004 7:08 AM To: Utah Valley Astronomy Association Subject: Re: [UVAA] Repeat Workshop/Moonwatch In case not everyone got the word the repeat workshop/moon watch will not be this Saturday April 24th. If you go to Fort Provo this Saturday night, you may be there by yourself. The next workshop/moon watch will be Saturday May 1st and will start at 7:30 PM at Fort Provo. We will try to stick to Those Saturday nights closes to or just before full moon. This schedule will generally not coincide with SPOC events or with the Harmon Star Parties. Jim Gibson --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos: High-quality 4x6 digital prints for 25¢ _______________________________________________ UVAA mailing list UVAA@mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uvaa --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos: High-quality 4x6 digital prints for 25¢
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Richard Tenney