Re: January Meeting Tomorrow?
I¡¯m fine for a Zoom.
George
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Re: January Meeting Tomorrow?
Ok, I will send the Zoom link for tonight.
Gerry
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On Jan 15, 2025, at 10:37 PM, Mark Strollo via groups.io <mark@...> wrote:
I hope everyone is staying warm during the recent snowmaking weather. (Sorry for the skiing reference, but it's been great fun in Vermont the past few weeks.)
Jerry mentioned that this Thursday is the third one in January, so tomorrow (or today, depending on when you check your Groups.io mail) is time for our next meeting.
George has kept us up to date with dues payments. Keep those checks coming in folks.
If you, like us, missed Monday's Mysterious Marvin-Moon Mesh, there are lots of online pics to see, but it's not quite the same. (CT was lucky. VT was not.)
We have the proposed Hammonasset public sessions with ASNH on the calendar:
Saturday, March 29, 7:30 pm
Saturday, May 31, 8:30 pm
Friday, Aug 15 with rain date Aug 16, 8:30 pm
Friday, Oct 24, with rain date Saturday Nov 1, 7:00 pm
Hoping Leslie can provide an upadate on the Conn College observatory upgrade.
Deb has kept the Night Sky Network up to date with the our previous and schedueled outreach sessions.
TAAS and SAS have planned a social event for Saturday February 22nd.
Is there anything else you TAASers would like to talk about?
Shall we get together for a Zoom visit?
Mark
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Amy
On Jan 16, 2025 at 6:58?AM -0500, John Natale via groups.io <jsnatale@...>, wrote:
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I can't attend - I'll be out celebrating my anniversary! Hopefully next time.
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I can't attend - I'll be out celebrating my anniversary! Hopefully next time.
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On Jan 16, 2025, at 12:50 AM, John A. Sillasen via < jasillasen@...> wrote:
I hope everyone is staying warm during the recent snowmaking weather.? (Sorry for the skiing reference, but it's been great fun in Vermont the past few weeks.)
Jerry mentioned that this Thursday is the third one in January, so tomorrow (or today, depending on when you check your mail) is time for our next meeting.
George has kept us up to date with dues payments.? Keep those checks coming in folks.
If you, like us, missed Monday's Mysterious Marvin-Moon Mesh, there are lots of online pics to see, but it's not quite the same.? ?(CT was lucky.? VT was not.)
We have the proposed Hammonasset public sessions with ASNH on the calendar:
Saturday, March 29, 7:30 pm
Saturday, May 31, 8:30 pm
Friday, Aug 15 with?rain date Aug 16, 8:30 pm
Friday, Oct 24, with?rain date Saturday Nov 1,?7:00 pm
Hoping Leslie can provide an upadate on the Conn College observatory upgrade.
Deb has kept the Night Sky Network up to date with the our previous and schedueled outreach sessions.
TAAS and SAS have planned a social event for Saturday February 22nd.
Is there anything else you TAASers would like to talk about?
Shall we get together for a Zoom visit?
Mark
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Re: January Meeting Tomorrow?
Me 3. At minimum, we can talk about recent acquisitions throughout the holidays once we hear the report from Doc Brown of course. I have tried to find a new home for it to no avail. I know we would like the optics but wouldn't it be better if the legacy of that scope lived on with modern electronics of course.?
Then of course, there is NEAF coming up April 5th and 6th.
John S.
On Wed, Jan 15, 2025 at 11:59 PM, Leslie Brown via groups.io <lfbro@...> wrote: I'm up for a Zoom meeting tomorrow.
-LB
I hope everyone is staying warm during the recent snowmaking weather.? (Sorry for the skiing reference, but it's been great fun in Vermont the past few weeks.)
Jerry mentioned that this Thursday is the third one in January, so tomorrow (or today, depending on when you check your Groups.io mail) is time for our next meeting.
George has kept us up to date with dues payments.? Keep those checks coming in folks.
If you, like us, missed Monday's Mysterious Marvin-Moon Mesh, there are lots of online pics to see, but it's not quite the same.? ?(CT was lucky.? VT was not.)
We have the proposed Hammonasset public sessions with ASNH on the calendar:
Saturday, March 29, 7:30 pm
Saturday, May 31, 8:30 pm
Friday, Aug 15 with?rain date Aug 16, 8:30 pm
Friday, Oct 24, with?rain date Saturday Nov 1,?7:00 pm
Hoping Leslie can provide an upadate on the Conn College observatory upgrade.
Deb has kept the Night Sky Network up to date with the our previous and schedueled outreach sessions.
TAAS and SAS have planned a social event for Saturday February 22nd.
Is there anything else you TAASers would like to talk about?
Shall we get together for a Zoom visit?
Mark
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I'm up for a Zoom meeting tomorrow.
-LB
I hope everyone is staying warm during the recent snowmaking weather.? (Sorry for the skiing reference, but it's been great fun in Vermont the past few weeks.)
Jerry mentioned that this Thursday is the third one in January, so tomorrow (or today, depending on when you check your Groups.io mail) is time for our next meeting.
George has kept us up to date with dues payments.? Keep those checks coming in folks.
If you, like us, missed Monday's Mysterious Marvin-Moon Mesh, there are lots of online pics to see, but it's not quite the same.? ?(CT was lucky.? VT was not.)
We have the proposed Hammonasset public sessions with ASNH on the calendar:
Saturday, March 29, 7:30 pm
Saturday, May 31, 8:30 pm
Friday, Aug 15 with?rain date Aug 16, 8:30 pm
Friday, Oct 24, with?rain date Saturday Nov 1,?7:00 pm
Hoping Leslie can provide an upadate on the Conn College observatory upgrade.
Deb has kept the Night Sky Network up to date with the our previous and schedueled outreach sessions.
TAAS and SAS have planned a social event for Saturday February 22nd.
Is there anything else you TAASers would like to talk about?
Shall we get together for a Zoom visit?
Mark
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I hope everyone is staying warm during the recent snowmaking weather.? (Sorry for the skiing reference, but it's been great fun in Vermont the past few weeks.)
Jerry mentioned that this Thursday is the third one in January, so tomorrow (or today, depending on when you check your Groups.io mail) is time for our next meeting.
George has kept us up to date with dues payments.? Keep those checks coming in folks.
If you, like us, missed Monday's Mysterious Marvin-Moon Mesh, there are lots of online pics to see, but it's not quite the same.? ?(CT was lucky.? VT was not.)
We have the proposed Hammonasset public sessions with ASNH on the calendar:
Saturday, March 29, 7:30 pm
Saturday, May 31, 8:30 pm
Friday, Aug 15 with?rain date Aug 16, 8:30 pm
Friday, Oct 24, with?rain date Saturday Nov 1,?7:00 pm
Hoping Leslie can provide an upadate on the Conn College observatory upgrade.
Deb has kept the Night Sky Network up to date with the our previous and schedueled outreach sessions.
TAAS and SAS have planned a social event for Saturday February 22nd.
Is there anything else you TAASers would like to talk about?
Shall we get together for a Zoom visit?
Mark
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Re: Marvin meets the moon
The lunar occultation of Marvin was a lovely site to watch last night. The sky was clear and it wasn't windy. Sat on the back porch with binocs and watched Mars disappear. Then I came outside about an hour later and saw the red planet reappear. Sweet. And tonight, we get treated to a lovely spray of planets across the sky, plus the rising moon early in the evening. I can stay awake until 6/6:30 p.m. at least for this!
LB
On Tue, Jan 14, 2025 at 10:34?AM John A. Sillasen via <jasillasen= [email protected]> wrote: Dang, got messaged from a member in Florida about the event but another member in Avon said it was cloudy. Went out at Midnight and it was clear as a bell with me completely missing the event!? Sigh. Another one not in the books.
John
On Tue, Jan 14, 2025 at 9:49 AM, GEORGE BLAHUN OOPs, should have been ¡°being¡± occulted by the moon.
GB
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Dang, got messaged from a member in Florida about the event but another member in Avon said it was cloudy. Went out at Midnight and it was clear as a bell with me completely missing the event!? Sigh. Another one not in the books. John
On Tue, Jan 14, 2025 at 9:49 AM, GEORGE BLAHUN <ks1u@...> wrote: OOPs, should have been ¡°being¡± occulted by the moon.
GB
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OOPs, should have been ¡°being¡± occulted by the moon.
GB
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Amy:
I think Jay was referring to Marvin (The Martian) occulting the moon. I might be wrong, but that was my guess.
George
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Amy
On Jan 13, 2025 at 8:53?PM -0500, Jay Drew via groups.io <mirrormaker@...>, wrote:
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It's cold and crisp in East Lyme. Marvin & I are tracking the moon and Mars in the TV Pronto and they're nicely framed in the 13mm ethos. Using a variable lunar filter to cut down the blinding glare. It¡¯s a beautiful naked eye sight as well. This is gonna be fun.
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It's cold and crisp in East Lyme. Marvin & I are tracking the moon and Mars in the TV Pronto and they're nicely framed in the 13mm ethos. Using a variable lunar filter to cut down the blinding glare. It¡¯s a beautiful naked eye sight as well. This is gonna be fun.
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We are now up to 15 paid TAAS members. Today I received payments from Moshe G, Chuck H, Alan S and Lee P. You can continue to send your $15 checks and money orders to me at the address below, but made out to TAAS or Thames Amateur Astronomical Society. Thanks.
George
George Blahun
P. O. Box 17
Quaker Hill, CT 06375
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Tonight 9pm local time, be there!
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Fw: [Special] Event: ASGH January 2025 Monthly Meeting with Zoom Link! - Wednesday, January 15, 2025
Please join us at this Wednesday's ASGH meeting for a special program with Erik Schmitt for his talk on?How Amateur Astronomers and Citizen Scientists can contribute to Exoplanet Research
Subject: Fw: [Special] Event: ASGH January 2025 Monthly Meeting with Zoom Link! - Wednesday, January 15, 2025 at 7:30 PM ET?
Reminder: ASGH January 2025 Monthly Meeting with Zoom Link!
When:
Wednesday, January 15, 2025
7:30pm to 9:30pm
(UTC-05:00) America/New York
Where:
Online and in person at the Rocky Hill Community Center, Room 1C, 761Old Main St., Rocky Hill, CT 06067
Organizer:
John A. Sillasen
jasillasen@...
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Description:
This month's meeting of the Astronomical Society of Greater Hartford will take place both online over Zoom and in the Rocky Hill Community Center - usually in the same room, 1C.? Our speaker is Erik Schmitt, an educator, outreach specialist and a former observatory director.? He is the treasurer of the Southern Vermont Astronomy group or SoVerA.
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His talk and what it will cover is:
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How Amateur Astronomers and Citizen Scientists can contribute to Exoplanet Research
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Overview
This talk will cover how amateur astronomers and citizen scientists with small telescopes or even no telescope at all can meaningfully contribute to exoplanet research. The NASA Exoplanet Watch collaboration is now open to the general public and there is a need for more optics and eyeballs gathering and reducing data from transiting exoplanets.
You will learn how to identify upcoming exoplanet transits, some tips for acquiring images, how to prepare them for processing via Exoplanet Watch's EXOTIC software tool, and then how to upload the results to the AAVSO's database. We'll also review how these measurements contributed to the characterization of particular exoplanets!
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Zoom Link:
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If you trouble with the link, open a web browser tab and enter:
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at the top right side of the page click on Join
Enter the Meeting ID
849 3230 2393 Click Join
Enter the Passcode
250083 Click Join Meeting
All participants are muted upon entry by default.? When you need to speak or ask a question when given the opportunity, click on the microphone in the lower left of your screen to enable the microphone so everyone may hear you.? Click it back off when you are finished so background noises (eating, TV, road traffic, people in the household having conversations with someone or gaming etc.? You know the drill!? Give the speaker the attention they deserve.?
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Please use the Zoom chat to ask questions to all or be selective and only 'chat' with a specific member.
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Thank you!
John Sillasen,?
ASGH Secretary
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Re: Link to my astrophotography article in the Courant
Excellent article, John. It would be great if we could get a reporter from one of the local newspapers to attend a public outreach event. The Day has sent reporters to the library for the last 2 solar eclipses.?
Amy
On Jan 10, 2025 at 10:43?PM -0500, GEORGE BLAHUN via groups.io <ks1u@...>, wrote:
John:
Thanks for the article link and for the TAAS plug. Well done as usual.
George
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Great article John! Didn¡¯t know you were so inclined to write.
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On Jan 10, 2025, at 2:54 PM, John Natale < jsnatale@...> wrote:
Hi all,
I recently put an article on astrophotography in the Hartford Courant to generate some interest in the hobby. My purpose was to try to encourage people (especially beginners in amateur astronomy) to give it a try. There is a link to TAAS in my article, so I am hoping other amateur astronomers will see it and be encouraged to join. It introduces the reader to CMOS camera sensor technology, and includes a few of my deep sky images.? ?
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A link to my article is below. If you want to read it and don't already subscribe to the Courant, after you click on the link you will need to enter in your e-mail address (when prompted) to be able to see the entire article.?
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Lee P.
Mark Strollo
Jay Drew