well the new people who took jobs learned somethingthis weekend, NEVER cancel Skywatch unless it is raining at the call - we alwaysleft it open in the past unless 100% storms moved in. And the

M 57 is a glorius object an any telescope at 100x or more. Owners of large telescopes can try seeing the famous central star. I reall back in the 1980's trying to see it from Coinjock (if you think

We sort of thought it might do what it did the night before but that is not good enough to schedule a formal event.

Formal events are hard to predict. If the weather around here is not tough enough, all the other considerations such as staffing and logistics make planning an organized event a difficult proposition

Even funnier are our attempts to predict it. I am reading the bios of the Mercury 7 astronauts. There was the thinking that if we could observe the weather from orbit we'd be able to predict weather

Yeah Funny how weather is.

Hi Robyn How goes the Intelliscope? Jim

I hate to say it but Kent and I had a superb night as the clouds cleared up unexpectedly. We were able to bag the 15 th magnitude galaxy next to M-57 and see the central star.

Robyn, Welcome to the BBAA and to the backbayastro Yahoo group. We'd like to hear from you. What are your interests and experience in astronomy? How can we help you? I hope you can attend some of

I lucked(?) out by waking up at 4am this morning and just had to see if it was clear. Amazingly it was. So out of bed, down the stairs, out the back door... What a treat! Jupiter, Venus and Aldebaran

well, maybe... Roy

Ummm.. it is in the thread or the earlier emails J Called off around noon Jim

will anyone going to skywatch or has it been called off?

Never mind

SO……………………. Looks like we can do this if we want. It will be hazy though. What does everyone think? Jim

In that case, keep alert! There's a chance we might have some spectacular auroras! -Nick Anderson

This might be old news to some, but for those who haven't heard yet (and this will be of interest to the Solar

Can't wait to see ya Toots! :)

We just got back from being out of town and we are planning on attending. See you guys there! The Colvin's

I hope to see you all at Saturday's picnic. I'm wearing my Sunday best attire. I'll bring potato chips & dip. The donuts will have to wait for ECSP! Kent Blackwell