Several SAS members joined me to volunteer with their scopes at Austin Park last night. The sticky, humid air hung like steamy bows of Cypress trees hanging over a dusty dirt road in southern Alabama. The view of the bottom of the Skaneateles nebula was uniform and monotonous and only allowed fleeting, obscured views of the moon and (probably) Vega. A few families and individuals arrived and stayed for our ‘Plan B’ shows, as each of us did some tap-dancing on the soft, rain-soaked ground. By 10:15, the “crowd” had swatted enough mosquitoes and their kids were rubbing […]
Monthly Archives: July 2023
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SAS Members, After watching the forecast it seems that tomorrow night will be much clearer than tonight, so we’ve decided to reschedule our Member’s observing session to Saturday, 7/22 See you then!
SAS Members, Due to some recent construction on site at Darling Hill, we will have to cancel our public session scheduled for Friday, 7/14. We recently took down our deck that was around our main building and there is still quite a bit of construction debris as well as some holes in the ground that we’re digging for new posts. It’s difficult enough to move around in the daytime and worse at night. We should be ready to go for our member session the following Friday, 7/21, weather permitting.