Friday Apr 6 - Beginner's Astronomy Class and Houge Park Star Party

From: Rob Hawley ^lt;robhawley_at_No-Spam>
Date: Thu Apr 05 2007 - 09:57:33 MST

Friday night we have two events at Houge Park. For directions see
www.sjaa.net/gotstars

********Beginner's Astronomy Class*************************

I will now be the lead for the "What's up in the Sky" portion of the class
and will be using an entirely new approach to the presentation. A new
scripted planetarium program will replace the PowerPoint. I hope that this
will give people a better idea of where objects are in the sky and will
teach people to find the constellations and the most visible Urban Objects.

The star chart for tonight's class is

http://www.skymaps.com/skymaps/tesmn0704.pdf

*****************Houge Park star party******************************

Star Party Hours 8:30 until 11:30 pm. Saturn and the Moon will be featured
tonight.

Object visibility for 22:00:00 on Fri 06 Apr 2007

Sunset: 19:34
Twilight: 21:04
Darkness: 21:04 - 23:54
Twilight: 05:14
Sunrise: 06:44

Objects from the Skymaps chart

Object Type Con Alt Az Dir
Alcor Star UMa +50° 46° NE
Gam Leo Star Leo +71° 159° S
beta Mon Star Mon +25° 238° SW
Izar Star Boo +29° 77° E
M 3 Globular CVn +42° 83° E
M 35 Open Clus Gem +41° 271° W
M 36 Open Clus Aur +39° 287° W
M 37 Open Clus Aur +41° 283° W
M 38 Open Clus Aur +38° 290° W
M 44 Open Clus Cnc +66° 227° SW
M 46 Open Clus Pup +29° 217° SW
M 47 Open Clus Pup +29° 218° SW
M 48 Open Clus Hya +41° 213° SW
M 51 Galaxy CVn +49° 58° NE
M 67 Open Clus Cnc +61° 212° SW
M 81 Galaxy UMa +58° 1° N
M 82 Galaxy UMa +58° 1° N
M 104 Galaxy Vir +27° 133° SE
Mel 111 Open Clus Com +56° 98° E
NGC 2232 Open Clus Mon +27° 240° SW
NGC 2239 Open Clus Mon +34° 247° SW
NGC 2264 Open Clus Mon +39° 250° W
NGC 3242 Planetary Hya +34° 171° S
Gam Vir Star Vir +35° 125° SE

Rob Hawley
Received on Thu Apr 5 09:56:53 2007


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