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Henry Cowell State Park in Felton is hosting "Full Moon Madness"

SCAC members are invited to setup their telescopes in the main parking lot near the train across from the Visitors Center. The park event starts at 6, we can probably setup there any time between 6 and 7. Use the entrance on highway 9 near Felton. the NWS forecast is for 'clear', but cold and gusty on Saturday night. Entrance fee is waived for club members with telescopes, just tell them you're with the Santa Cruz Astronomy Club.

68% moon, transit at 8:42pm when the moon will be 35 degrees altitude.


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Sun, 10/21/2007 - 00:42 — pierce

this was a lot of fun.

this was a lot of fun. when I arrived, Chris was setting up his 16" meade, bill with his 10" dob, and ____ with a nice large orion refractor on the new skyview pro eq. Due to trees and horizons, we ended up set up right by the entrance kiosk.

I backed in, set up 10" Red, and zoomed in on Lunar craters. the rangers were doing a bunch of programs at the visitors center, so we got groups of people stopping by as they were leaving. I'd guess we had 100 or so people through the evening.

I swiped a peek from the Orion scope... Wow, televue 7mm nagler type 6. very nice view, very crisp. I think the scope was a 80ED Apochromatic. the Skyview Pro mount was very nice, looked like it could easily handle a C8.