Santa Cruz Astronomy Club

This is the first of a hopefully weekly series of 2 minute scripts for a radio spot on KPIG-FM, to be given Sunday morning at 8:30am.

 

(intro:  This is the Star Dude from the Santa Cruz Astronomy Club, bringing you this weeks Night Sky Roundup!

As we enter into the midsummer, the sun sets around 8:30pm.  This means astronomical dark doesn't come until about 10pm, but since we have a full moon, its not a good week for Stargazing anyways, so lets talk about the Planets instead..

These last 2 weekends have been very productive for me and I thought I would share.

I was lucky enough to have great seeing conditions on 4-18 and while I was between targets I decided to try for Omega Cetauri which just comes into view for about 15 minutes between some trees.

My tracking or balance was off a bit and the stars are a bit wobbly but I thought it was cool just to catch a glimmer.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/31986095@N05/3473230131/

I have recently updated my photo page to Flickr and added a bunch of low quality JPGs for now till I get it set up better.

I am lucky enough to have this great club and the dark sky site at the airport to take my pics from , all are taken from there.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/31986095@N05/

Hello all.  Here is the link to my new pic host.  Most of these were taken from BDA.  What a fantastic night it was 6-7-08.  Warm and dry. Stayed up until 2:30..Awesome Milky Way.  http://www.flickr.com/photos/25857427@N02/?saved=1

Paul Duncan

Jerry Miller and I did Sidewalk Astronomy in Santa Cruz. We setup across from the rest rooms near the lighthouse on West Cliff Drive. It was a beautiful evening. A full moon came up about 7:30PM bright orange. Showed a great view of Saturn as soon as it appeared. Jerry did art photos of the full moon with new camera software. Lots of public interest. I need to generate a Santa Cruz Astronomy Club News Letter to handout. Stayed until 10:00PM. Spring is here, more sidewalk astronomy in the future.