Hello, Welcome to the smokymtnastro@groups.io. Here are a few tips we have discovered during our initial usage. 1. The web address is groups.io not group.io. The second choice (singular) will take you

Just for your information (and to test the "New Topic" feature), the number on members we have in the group is now 27. Jim

Hi Jim, Thanks for setting up the new smokymtnastro group on groups.io for SMAS members. It's a bit of a challenge to setup a new news group, but groups.io is a quality outfit, whereas yahoo was deteo

Lee Erickson has been working with Ashley at the Dancing Bear Lodge in Townsend to have a star party at their location. This will be on January 23, 2020, from 5PM to 10PM. Here is a message from Ashle

Thought you all might like this. The video is 5 hours worth of individual frames, condensed and converted into a 21 second video. Check out the # of satellites passing through M42 over this 5 hour per

SMAS Meeting - 01/10/2020 The Smoky Mountain Astronomical Society will meet Friday, January 10, at Pellissippi State College, Room 223. The meeting agenda is as follows: 7:00- Doors open to Room 223 7

Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that the following files have been uploaded to the Files area of the smokymtnastro@groups.io group. /Meeting Minutes/Minutes for 2020/SMAS 1

About the time or after that the Yahoo group went away I was working on a telescope mount. I have posted some information to the FaceBook page as follows: *********************************************

Our disconnect from Yahoogroups and my slow to get on Group IO has me very late making this request. Sorry. A week from today the Dancing Bear Lodge in Townsend TN is hosing a dinner and the sky viewi

Hello everyone, I have spoken with Ashley of Dancing Bear Lodge (She called because she was on top of the weather) regarding the weather forecast which has gone from marginal to bad. The event of Jan

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On February 14, SMAS will be electing officers for 2020. The nominees to-date are: PRESIDENT: ??? VICE-PRESIDENT: Duane Dunlap TREASURER: James Cantu SECRETARY: ??? Please consider volunteering for on

To ALL SMAS Members: This coming Friday we will be electing club officers for 2020. The current nominations, which have recently changed, are: PRESIDENT: Duane Dunlap VICE PRESIDENT: James Cantu TREAS

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Duane Dunlap <lddunlap41@...> Date: Sun, Feb 9, 2020 at 6:26 PM Subject: SMAS Meeting - 02/14/2020 To: <smokymtnastro@groups.io> The Smoky Mountain Astrono

To ALL SMAS Members: This coming Friday, February 14, 2020, we will be electing club officers for 2020. The current nominations are: PRESIDENT: Duane Dunlap VICE PRESIDENT: James Cantu TREASURER: Ayak

SMAS Reminder ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Duane Dunlap <lddunlap41@...> Date: Sun, Feb 9, 2020 at 6:26 PM Subject: SMAS Meeting - 02/14/2020 To: <smokymtnastro@groups.io> The Smoky M

Clear skies! At least till about midnight Saturday Clear Sky Chart looks good so if you want some company observing liets do the Foothills Parkway 4 miles east of US321 entrance. Arrive at about 6:30

Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that the following files have been uploaded to the Files area of the smokymtnastro@groups.io group. /Meeting Minutes/Minutes for 2020/SMAS 1

I have uploaded a pdf document that contains links to 2 instructional videos that Jammey Church produced. These show the work flow used by Jammey to bring out the color in Astrophotos. The pdf file ca

Congratulations to James Paciello for earning the Astronomical League’s Award for completing the “Lunar Observing Program”. James met the AL requirements to observe and document 100 features on the mo