It was a hell of an astronomical week for me. No, I didn't win a ribbon at Stellafane for my tri-shiefspiegler (I didn't get around to making it again this year), and I didn't see a spectacular aurora (even if they did reach this far south this week, I saw mostly cloud bottoms). What I did was participate in a star party with a background sound track of John Williams and the Boston Pops playing live at Tanglewood (thanks Alan Rifkin for organizing this) on Tuesday, showed off Saturn and the quarter moon to a great group of kids at the Enfield CT library on Friday night, and got to watch Matt Paine and Joe Zuraw fabricate a roof on the new Showers.
Matt and Joe were ably assisted a "ground crew" of Ray Burk and Peter Scherff. Meanwhile, Kevin Collins and Tom Walker rebuilt the collimation setup on the 18" Dobsonian.
Barry Hervieux and I mowed, and we managed to clean the tube of the Gaertner.
Lots more work to do over the next few weeks as we approach Arunah Hill Day. Thanks to all for their efforts!
Photo by Kevin Collins.
Matt and Joe were ably assisted a "ground crew" of Ray Burk and Peter Scherff. Meanwhile, Kevin Collins and Tom Walker rebuilt the collimation setup on the 18" Dobsonian.
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