A Question for astronomer friends?
I have been meaning to attend an astronomy type club in Milwaukee for quite a while.I just don't seem to get round to it.
Of course at the moment the thought of standing outside in the cold and snow, looking at the sky has little appeal.
We do get a lot of clear skies though.
Anyway, they send me emails letting me know what is going on.
I know very little about astronomy but I am very interested. I just don't want to look like a wally.
This email came today.
Our next scheduled meeting of the Urban Stargazers is on Thursday March 10th at 7:00PM at the Urban Ecology Center (1500 East Park Place Milwaukee).
We have rescheduled the items we were unable to present at the last meeting.
Steve Marshall will discuss "Viewing the Cassini Division of Saturn's rings".
In addition, we will discuss and demo using the Drift Method for Astro-Photography.
If skies permit we will set up at 5:30PM for those of you wishing to observe before the start of the meeting( if you plan on coming early please check with us about early setup).
For those interested, Steve Marshall will set up his 12-1/2 inch scope for observing at his house after the meeting.
Hope to see you there.
Does this sound interesting?
Would it be something I would appreciate without getting totally lost.......do you think?
I might have to twist my better half's arm into going to one of these meetings sometime.
posted by Sue Banks @ 8:13 AM
3 Comments:
The cassini division is a area of darkness in the rings, Saturn itself is a stunning object to see through a scope, Astro-photography is an interesting aspect to astronomy and obviously gives permanent results that you can show off, so unless the speaker is using lots of jargon and techno babble it should be interesting.
Thank you for that. I was just wondering if it was the sort of thing your club would enjoy.
I really loved going to that meeting when I was over there and it gave me the bug to go to something similar here.
Give it a go :o)
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