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URL: http://www.sjaa.net/pipermail/sjaa-announce/attachments/20010218/ec026482/attachment.html From jrt at best.com Mon Feb 26 19:09:42 2001 From: jrt at best.com (John Templeton) Date: Fri Jul 29 03:57:02 2005 Subject: [SJAA-announce] Last Minute Call for Star Party help in Los Gatos Message-ID: Hi Folks, I've been recruited to help with a "Fun and Stars" event at Blossom Hill Elementary School in Los Gatos, tomorrow night, Tuesday Feb. 27th from about 7:00 to 9:00. The parents and teachers who have organized this are really enthusiastic, and have prepared a slideshow, a skit (complete with a teacher dressed as Galileo), constellation cups, etc. I'll be there with a 'scope, and am hoping someone else is available to help let a few kids get a good look at whatever wonders we can see between the clouds tomorrow night. At a similar event last year, I lost count of the number of kids (and adults) we had, and they were treated to a terrific view of Saturn many of them will never forget. The school is located at 16400 Blossom Hill Road, two blocks east of Los Gatos Blvd. So, if you have tomorrow night free and feel like setting up your telescope with me at Blossom Hill School, please contact me and I'll provide additional details and we can coordinate when/where to meet. Lots of folks would really appreciate having more than one telescope! -- John Templeton jrt@best.com From koopm at best.com Tue Feb 27 16:41:50 2001 From: koopm at best.com (Michael Koop) Date: Fri Jul 29 03:57:02 2005 Subject: [SJAA-announce] Possible view of Centaur rocket plume tonight (2/27) Message-ID: This was posted on TAC by Craig Cholar.... email: <3432P@VM1.CC.NPS.NAVY.MIL> Do you want to see an 'artificial comet'? If so read on... A Titan IV rocket was launched from Florida today to send a satellite into geosynch orbit. We may get to see the rocket plume and/or propellant dump of the Centaur upper stage tonight (2/27). From the bay area the approximate area to search is about 7 to 10 degrees below Procyon, starting at 7:42:24pm (when a 2m 12s rocket burn is scheduled to occur). I don't know if the burn will be easily visible. I'm going to scan the area with 7x50's. At 7:54:49 pm Pacific time the satellite will separate from the Centaur stage. Sometime after that there might be a propellant dump from the Centaur. If so, it could be quite visible (a glowing patch 1 deg wide, reaching mag 1). I don't know when the dump will occur, but the last time one was visible it was noticed about 21 minutes after the spacecraft separation. My best guess on the area to spot the dump would be halfway between the head of Hydra and the mag 3.9 star alpha Mon, about 45 degrees above the SE horizon at azimuth 145. By the way, Some TAC'rs spotted a propellant dump back in Nov 97 and I forwarded to a satellite discussion forum an excerpt of Sandra Macika's TAC posting about observing the event: http://www2.satellite.eu.org/sat/seesat/Nov-1997/0147.html I derived the area to search tonight from a recent post to the same satellite discussion forum. For those interested, here's the url of that post: http://www2.satellite.eu.org/sat/seesat/Feb-2001/0353.html For more information on the launch: http://www.spaceflightnow.com/ Craig Cholar From bill at nineplanets.org Wed Feb 28 16:45:15 2001 From: bill at nineplanets.org (Bill Arnett) Date: Fri Jul 29 03:57:02 2005 Subject: [SJAA-announce] Re: [SJAA-chat] What a levely night last night! In-Reply-To: <6264EA808496D411AF5F00B0D049FB9609BC4E@quest.int.geysernetworks.com> Message-ID: on 2/28/01 9:56 AM, Jeff Masnaghetti wrote: > Finally, some clear skys at night. Yeah, I opened my observatory last night for the first time in what seems like months. What a joy it is to have clear and 60 degree weather in February! > ...What are the > best things to look at in light-polluted skys? Jupiter, Saturn, the moon... There's no need to go any further than that! :-) There's more detail to see with an amateur scope on the Moon than in the whole rest of the sky combined. -- Bill Arnett bill@nineplanets.org Emerald Hills, CA USA http://nineplanets.org/