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Observers Gathered at Seawall for the Opening Friday Night Star Party Viewing Under Some of the Darkest Skies of the Event Vol. 2013, No. 10 Newsletter of the New Hampshire Astronomical Society October 2013 In This Issue… President’s Message As we enter the final overload, burn-out, and member 2 Sky Watch Review two months of 2013, contribution. As mentioned during I am starting to think the October meeting, we discussed Winnacunnet High School about the accomp- various activities, the level of effort, Goffstown High School lishments that we and the resources required to Concord High School have had as a team accomplish those goals. There were Rundlett Middle School this year; both in dozens of activities that NHAS Reeds Ferry School terms of out-reach performs on a weekly, monthly, and Lincoln Public Library and in-reach. annual basis and we attempted to Epping Middle School prioritize them. Daniel Webster College We will celebrate these and recognize Salem High School individuals for their outstanding We agreed that we have to get a Sky Watch Outtakes contribution during our annual pot-luck handle on what we effectively can celebration to be held on December 20th, accomplish while maintaining 2013 at MSDC. I am asking members balance in our membership. It is Acadia Night Party 5 who wish to recognize others to please analogous to a company that grows send me a private mail describing the too fast while not accounting for person, their contribution, and reasons scalability. What we all agreed on 8 Featured Articles for recognition. The meeting portion will unanimously is that our messaging A Lunar Look Back be very short and will cover only the to the membership is wrong when it Eclipses and Other Events minimal activities we need to conduct as comes to contribution, and we plan an organization. to take specific action to improve our messaging. 13 Society Activities At the November meeting to be held on t h November 15 at St. Anselm College, A key part of this is the perception A Spate of Cancellations John Blackwell will be our evening that you have to be perceived as an Fall Messier Marathon speaker and we are sure to be in for a expert to contribute. Nothing is LTP Scope Deliveries treat. John is the Science Department further from the truth and it is Chair at Exeter Academy and an NHAS ultimately my responsibility to member. I am looking forward to eliminate that perception. Expect The Regular Items 14 hearing John’s presentation. This this to be my prime area of Business Meeting Report meeting also begins the nomination concentration for the remainder of Treasurer’s Report process for club elections to be held at this year and into 2014. Contact Information the December meeting. This is your In summary, I am proud of the work Astronomy Resource Guide chance to run for office or nominate we have done this year and I Upcoming Events someone who you believe can continue to be grateful to all in Credits effectively serve, so please starting allowing me to lead this wonderful thinking about this. Our secretary will send out details before the meeting about organization. the nomination process and procedure. Clear Skies, I held the Q4 officer/board meeting on October 26th with a very healthy Rich DeMidio discussion and debate focused on NHAS President 2 Sky Watch Review Winnacunnet High School, Among the objects observed in Mr. the visible stars and constellations. I North Hampton NH, October 1 T: the 14" TScope: M17, M16, M13, showed Alberio, Mizar and Almach M92, M15, M11, V Aquilae, T (at 185x, it was really nice), also Lyrae, Epsilon Lyrae, 61 Cygni, M31 (with Steve getting a larger Gamma Arietis, Gamma Delphini. view in his 10” Dob), and did some Paul Winalski GLP tours. I located Uranus via star- hops starting at Algenib, which the With all the planets missing in remaining students and 3-4 teachers action, I showed M22 and M13, and had a good look at. John Bishop then the usual cadre of double stars. With showed a larger disc of Uranus in his a GLP I traced the track of the NCP reflector (the platform tracking also over the 25,800 year cycle of the helped). Everyone noted a kite The event took place under very Equinox precession to Reed Prior (a formation, with the planet at the clear skies with steady seeing. Paul teacher) and others. The lights in the apex. Uranus is in retrograde motion Winalski gave the indoor presenta- parking lot were turned off for the at present, and in 2 weeks the kite tion to about 30 members of the skywatch, but Mike Veilleux, the will become a T in the sky. I also High School's Astronomy Club. astronomy and science teacher for sketched the FOV for reference. Gardner Gerry and Ramaswamy set grades 9-12, suggested that darker Ramaswamy up scopes for the sky watch proper. but restricted views could be had We got to see Saturn and Venus at from the back of the parking lot. Rundlett Middle School, twilight, then the usual fall early Next time! Concord NH, October 10, 2013 evening suspects – I set up the 14" Ramaswamy TScope and showed Mizar, 61 Cygni, Gamma Delphini, WZ Concord High School, Concord Cassiopeiae, M57, M11, NGC 457, NH, October 8, 2013 M13, the Coathanger, V Aquilae, and the Veil Nebula (!). The event was held under clear skies Paul Winalski and a bit of haze – pretty good conditions for being in a city. NHAS After Venus and Saturn, I moved on members participating: John Bishop, to M13, Alberio, Mizar and the Herb Bubert, Rich DeMidio, Dragonfly cluster -- one student Gardner Gerry, John Pappas, promptly identified it as the Owl Ramaswamy, Steve Rand, Ed Ting Ed Ting gave the indoor classroom Cluster, NGC 457! Most of the talk and Bob Veilleux. I didn't have a presentations, but the sky watch had was about stellar distances and good sense of the crowd size; lines to be cancelled due to overcast skies. surface temperatures. I capped off seemed to be short. I did speak to Ed has done this event each year for the evening by star-hopping to several of the Concord High the past ten years and this year Neptune, via Enif and alpha Aquarii. teachers, some of whom I'd met interest was so high that they put 6 students and a teacher got a look. already at the daytime solar him in the gym, with the 120+ kids Ramaswamy observing session last month. seated on the basketball court. Objects I showed in the TScope: Paul Winalski, Ed Ting Goffstown High School, Polaris, Gamma Arietis, Gamma Goffstown NH, October 2, 2013 Delphini, WZ Cassiopeiae, 61 Reeds Ferry School, Merrimack Cygni, V Aquilae, TX Piscium, NH, October 14, 2013 The event took place under clear but M31/32, NGC 457, Perseus Double somewhat damp and hazy skies. Cluster, M13, M92, and M57. The weather looked iffy for Monday About 20 students and two teachers Paul Winalski evening, but even worse for were present. NHAS members Tuesday, so we held the event on participating: Gardner Gerry, John There were10 scopes lined up and Monday. Sky conditions started out Pappas, Ramaswamy, Steve Rand, Steve and I were at one end. John partly cloudy, turning mostly cloudy Rich Schueller, Paul Winalski. Bishop did an introductory talk on and then overcast. The only objects Sky Watch Review 3 visible were the Moon and, earlier on, Epping Middle School, Epping Daniel Webster College, brilliant Venus. The crowd was very NH, October 24, 2013 Nashua NH, October 29, 2013 large, as usual -- close to 200 students, parents, and siblings, all of whom This event took place under very Due to ambiguity in directions to were delighted at the lunar views. All clear and steady skies on the backup the scopes setup location, NHAS scopes were continuously busy and the date. NHAS members participating: folks ended up in 2 separate areas of NHAS participants included: John Paul Winalski, Ted Blank, Gardner the sports field, screened from each Bishop, Joe Derek, Rags Gilmore, Gerry, Ramaswamy, & Steve Rand. other by trees. The 2 groups, in Dennis Hobbs, John Pappas, New member Elaine Grantham- effect, held a Double Sky watch. Ramaswamy, Steve Rand and Rick Buckley was also present. There were Schueller (who enjoyed a ride down a 80+ students and parents. The only Steve Rand began the evening with slide when no one was watching, or so downside was that the parking lot an indoor presentation for about 15 he thought!) lights were on. We set up in the students. Then a couple of students Paul Winalski, Ramaswamy darkest corner, but it still interfered followed him to the baseball field, with the viewing. They will try to where Ted Blank, Joe Derek, Lincoln Public Library, Lincoln turn the lights off for us next year. Gardner Gerry, Elaine Grantham- NH, October 21, 2013 Buckley and Paul Winalski had setup (and where the event had been Steve Rand did the presentation. I showed: M31/M32, T Lyrae, V held last year). The rest apparently Aquilae, M57, M13, 61 Cygni, and went to the soccer field, where John Gamma Delphini. Ramaswamy Bishop, Larry LaForge and John showed Alberio, Mizar, NGC 457, Pappas showed them the skies for M13 and the Pleiades. Ted Blank about an hour. Everyone agreed showed the double cluster, M57, later on that it had been a strange M31 and Mizar. Gardner began with night, and also a very cold one. Alberio, and then moved on to M31, Ted Blank, J. Bishop, S. Rand NGC 457, double cluster and the Pleiades. Salem High School, Salem NH, Paul Winalski (and others) October 30, 2013 Thank you SOOOOO much for a The skywatch at Salem High came This event was held on the back-up wonderful sky watch! The kids wrote date of October 21.The predicted off well in spite of some high clouds about it in their science journals and fog for the first hour or so.
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