Hi Otis,
There are three other avid astronomers living in Benicia including Darrell
Lee, Renato Del Rosario and myself, Dennis Beckley. Darrell has a SkyQuest
XT10 intelliscope, Renato has a Portaball 12.5, and I have an Obsession 18
and a Takahashi FC100. We go to a variety of dark sites including
Fiddletown, IHOP and Pedlar Hill up in the Sierra foothills, Lake Sonoma,
Mt. Lassen, Chew's ridge south of Carmel, a private site south of Livermore
and occasionally up to Blue Ridge/Mix Canyon west of Vacaville. We'd love
to have you join us for an outing in November or December. My E-mail
address is "dbeckley@ebire.org" and I can provide you other information if
you want to contact me. Another good site with helpful fellow astronomers
in our area is tac-sac@yahoogroups.com.
Dennis Beckley
P.S. I am also an avid sailor but that's another story best told over a
pint of Foster's!
At 09:40 PM 10/29/2004, you wrote:
>Hi! My name is Otis
>
>I joined a while ago and have Just been watching all of the activity. I
>live in Benicia and I go up to Angwin from time to time with my son and we
>have a ball finding stuff.
>I'm looking for some TACos in the Benicia, Napa, Vallejo, Fairfield area
>to get together with.
>I've got an Orion ED80 and I'm learning to attach a Pentax slr(film)
>camera to it using a Lumicon guider. I'm having a lot of fun. I read
>incessantly everything that I can find. If I don't understand something I
>find another source and try to come at it from another direction. Is
>there anyone up in my area who'd like to get together and look at the
>universe? I can't always get to Angwin, but I am out almost every night
>to look at anything I can.
>I love being out doors. Thirty years ago I was rock climbing(Yosemite).
>Then I got into sailing(still a very big passion) and now I'm finally
>following my childhood fantasy astronomy.
>Look forward to meeting some of you all.
>Otis
>PS for xmas: just a green laser so I can point things out to my wife whose
>eyesight is not great.
>
>
>----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Ozer" <rozer@pacbell.net>
>To: "The Astronomy Connection" <sf-bay-tac@seds.org>
>Sent: Friday, October 29, 2004 6:16 PM
>Subject: [TAC] Re: What astro goodies do you want as a holiday gift?
>
>
>>Rukl....
Received on Fri Oct 29 22:31:59 2004