Notes on last Saturday, April 14th, 2022 observation session.
A private reveal party was happening in the pavilion and pink smoke came out of the flares (that was my intuition I told a member when I arrived). First names of people that showed include Emily/Scott/Evan, Ryan/Amber/Ava/Addison, Dave/Diane, Mark & Ani of those that signed the sign-in sheet. It was cloudy but that didn't stop us from a great Stargazing session. While it was still light out, I started by showing Dave some kinesthetics and photos from my Astronomy textbook that allowed one to see the outline of a womans face on most of the upper right of the moon and Dave & I did some kinesthetic Astronomy until others started arriving. Dave then taught what he had learned to the new arrivals and Emily signed her family in and helped get others signed in on the sign-in sheet. Evan (I think I have the right nice young man) helped me get the big telescope out of my car while others carried other gear up. As I showed one how to use a telescope by turning the scope to the blinking red lights on antennas in the distance, they in turn showed another and so forth as I answered questions of others. One subject was an objects magnitude (brightness) that I went through a short history of. I reminded everyone (and I'm reminding you) that everyone should go to my webpage smile2340.com and then HW 78620 and then Stargazers and then Frequently Asked Questions and go through the answers to those questions which will slingshot you further into knowledge of the night sky. Many of the answers to these questions are not available on the internet and if you search them, often take you to my webpage. I'll continue adding more info to our Stargazers category as time goes on.
Ani and his wife Veda will be moving into a home on Tierra soon and Ani has several telescopes, of which, his best telescope is probably the one most of us dream of having so it's exciting to Ani's expertise of using a telescope to take long exposure photos of heavenly objects. Ani's photos that he shared with me were as good or better than I've ever seen in Astronomy magazines over the last several decades. I'm sure there are many more Headwaters residents with telescopes, so in the future HW residents will learn from several of us as they absorb the beautiful of our universe through our telescopes and/or that can run Stargazer evenings when I'm not able to.
A private reveal party was happening in the pavilion and pink smoke came out of the flares (that was my intuition I told a member when I arrived). First names of people that showed include Emily/Scott/Evan, Ryan/Amber/Ava/Addison, Dave/Diane, Mark & Ani of those that signed the sign-in sheet. It was cloudy but that didn't stop us from a great Stargazing session. While it was still light out, I started by showing Dave some kinesthetics and photos from my Astronomy textbook that allowed one to see the outline of a womans face on most of the upper right of the moon and Dave & I did some kinesthetic Astronomy until others started arriving. Dave then taught what he had learned to the new arrivals and Emily signed her family in and helped get others signed in on the sign-in sheet. Evan (I think I have the right nice young man) helped me get the big telescope out of my car while others carried other gear up. As I showed one how to use a telescope by turning the scope to the blinking red lights on antennas in the distance, they in turn showed another and so forth as I answered questions of others. One subject was an objects magnitude (brightness) that I went through a short history of. I reminded everyone (and I'm reminding you) that everyone should go to my webpage smile2340.com and then HW 78620 and then Stargazers and then Frequently Asked Questions and go through the answers to those questions which will slingshot you further into knowledge of the night sky. Many of the answers to these questions are not available on the internet and if you search them, often take you to my webpage. I'll continue adding more info to our Stargazers category as time goes on.
Ani and his wife Veda will be moving into a home on Tierra soon and Ani has several telescopes, of which, his best telescope is probably the one most of us dream of having so it's exciting to Ani's expertise of using a telescope to take long exposure photos of heavenly objects. Ani's photos that he shared with me were as good or better than I've ever seen in Astronomy magazines over the last several decades. I'm sure there are many more Headwaters residents with telescopes, so in the future HW residents will learn from several of us as they absorb the beautiful of our universe through our telescopes and/or that can run Stargazer evenings when I'm not able to.