New poll for OAFs
Enter your vote today! A new poll has been created for the
OAFs group:
Dine with your fellow oafs this
Saturday, april 7. Please pick your
preferred venue for communial
ingestion.
A
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OAFs@...
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#243
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Re: Checking out FLO this evening...
I'll
Mike -
Just talked to Rol on the cell phone (he left at about 6:25).
He'll look for you at the Petro Can -- said he'd wait until 7:45 in
case you get held up a bit.
Hope you guys have a
By
Janice Tokar
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#242
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Re: Checking out FLO this evening...
Roland if you have not left yet I am interested in tagging along. I'll
be at the Petro Can.
Mike Z
for
there,
good
By
zeidler@...
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#241
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Re: Dinner location
Attilla,
Feel free to include "Rob's place with takeout". Note to anyone who is
afraid of dogs, I've got one (she's the nicest and most relaxed one on
the planet, with the possible exception of one
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Rob Robotham <rob.robotham@...>
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#240
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Dinner location
We have more suggestions for restarant that dining oafs at the
moement.
Actually "suggestion" shouldnt be take too seriously. Quite a few
of these were mentioned in a sentance that included a
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attilla.danko@...
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#239
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Re: Text description for FLO
Yes that's true Attilla, thanks. I eMailed Al a few weeks ago and I
have the combination for that lock. I estimate getting there around
7:45pm.
Rol
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r.prevost@...
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#238
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Re: Text description for FLO
Note that the gate to FLO is locked with a combination
lock. If you are the first to arrive for the evening,
you will need to know the combination. Phone or
email Al Seaman. He will hand out the
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attilla.danko@...
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#237
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Location for dinner before RASC?
I would make this a poll, but I'm not sure what choices to put down...
So far what I've seen as options are:
Kelsey's (right by the museum)
Abe & Roscoe's (a brew pub on Bank St between the river and
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Rob Robotham <rob.robotham@...>
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#236
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Text description for FLO
Here goes, Rob - but you'd need an Ontario map to get there alone:
Text description of how to get to the FLO:
Take Hwy#17 West to Hwy#44
Take Hwy#44 all the way through Almonte to Hwy#15 (**Petro
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r.prevost@...
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#235
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Re: Checking out FLO this evening...
Sounds like a plan. I'm not sure what my evening will be like, but
directions would be useful, if not for tonight then eventually.
Rob
r.prevost@... wrote:
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Rob Robotham <rob.robotham@...>
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#234
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Checking out FLO this evening...
I will be driving out to the RASC's Fred Lossing Observatory, near
Almonte, for some observing this evening, even though the moon is
fairly large and bright. I would like to check out that location
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r.prevost@...
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#233
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Various Replies...
We sure did have a great time on the last couple of evenings at Kanata
Chapters, showing the skies to more than 80 persons per evening.
Our friends at OAOG also had an excellent evening of sidewalk
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r.prevost@...
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#232
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Re: Yesterday Short Solar Session
Ummm, just in a little hole-in-the-wall astronomy store in Vancouver
(there seem to be a few in the Vancouver area, I must have hit the
little one) that was within walking distance of my
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ROB ROBOTHAM <rob.robotham@...>
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#231
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Re: Observing Report Kanata Chapters (Tues.)
Yes this session was a lot of fun. A few came back for second looks.
One woman called her husband out who stayed with us for about two
hours. He promply discovered a 4th moon of jupiter. (Well,
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attilla.danko@...
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#228
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Re: Yesterday Short Solar Session
Hi Rob!
What a great idea!! I think I will try and get some Baader film and make filters for my binos!! Where did you get your piece?
Richard
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Richard Harding <rharding@...>
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#230
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Re: Observing Report Kanata Chapters (Tues.)
Just one item I would like to add to your excellent report Roland. One of the men who looked through our scopes stayed for just under one hour!! I had just noticed that a second G. moon had peaked
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Richard Harding <rharding@...>
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#229
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Re: Yesterday Short Solar Session
Roland,
What type of filter do you have? I have the Baader film and at
Christmas I tried to just hold it in front of ... a camcorder I think,
and the reflection off of the film overwhelmed the image
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Rob Robotham <rob.robotham@...>
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#227
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Yesterday Short Solar Session
Sess.#282 1:30pm driveway Solar Filter Clear
Just a very short session from my driveway yesterday afternoon. I
used my 8" solar filter to look at the sun with my eyes. I could no
longer
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r.prevost@...
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#226
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Observing Report Kanata Chapters (Tues.)
Sess.#283 7:30-10:00pm Kanata Chapters - Mostly Clear!
This session almost did not happen. Janice called the Env.
Canada weatherman, and we (dummies) paid to find out that in Kanata
there would
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r.prevost@...
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#225
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Re: tonight, i'll be joining you
I'll be there around 20:10
actually, it looks clear in bells corners. Anyone else up
for it?
cya.
-ad
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attilla.danko@...
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#224
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