You might want to concider Coyote tonight if the clouds are as
predicted....
Misery loves company. :-(
According to this months SJAA Ephemeris, we are having a Deep Sky Star
Party at
Coyote Lake Park on Saturday, Oct 18th where the 51% Moon will set at
0:33. This came as a surprise to your president since he had already
scheduled the three star parties requested by the park ranger in July,
August, and September. The secretary blames the editors, the editors blame
the secretary, who cares! Lets just have a Star party at Coyote for us!
Having the moon SET at 0:33 in third quarter phase will be tough to
arrange. ;-)
We will be meeting down by the boat ramp instead of the picnic area, about
a mile past the ranger kiosk.
Continuing with the Coyote Star Party tradition, we will be hosting a "Pot
Luck BBQ". Pot luck begins at 5:30 p.m.- bring a main dish.... anything
will do from KFC to sushi to crepe suzette to chef's salad to homemade
Enchiladas to side dishes, just make it something you like! Bring enough
to share. This is an informal pot-luck. Bring your own paper plates and
utensils. We will have one of the BBQ pits fired up and ready at 5:30 PM.
We provide the flame, you provide the grillables.
Some Fun Objects to Observe:
M47 in Puppis was missed because Messier did a sign error during the
reduction of positional data
"Baxendell's Unphotographable Nebula" i.e. NGC 7088 near Aquarius, later
identified as a plate defect.
M102 may be the Lenticular Galaxy NGC 5866 in Draco or look at M101 in
Ursa Major twice.
List of other typo objects:
http://cac.uvi.edu/staff/rc3/astro/m102.html
http://www.seds.org/messier/missing.html
http://www.ngcic.com/history.htm
Clear Skies,
Mike Koop
Preseident, SJAA
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To reach the park, take Highway 101 to Gilroy;
Take the Leavesley Road exit;
Follow Leavesley Road east 1.75 miles to New Avenue;
turn left onto New Avenue and proceed north for .6 miles to Roop Road.
Turn right onto Roop Road, which eventually turns into Gilroy Hot Springs
Road.
The park entrance is approximately 3 miles from New Avenue.
Turn left onto Coyote Reservoir Road, the park visitor center/ranger
station is about one
mile from Roop Road. When you enter the park, tell the ranger you are
there to support the star party. They will admit you free of charge.
The park office phone number is (408) 842-7800.
For a map of the Coyote Park area go to:
http://www.parkhere.org/scc/assets/docs/330208Coyote%20Lake%20map.pdf
Website for Park:
http://www.parkhere.org/channel/0,4770,chid%253D16486%2526sid%253D12761,00.html
Saturday, October 18th, 2003 Star Party Details:
Sunset: 6:26 PM
Civil Twilight: 6:52 PM
Nautical Twilight: 7:23 PM
Astronomical Twilight: 7:53 PM
Mars Transits: 9:42 PM
Moon RISES: 0:32 PM Sunday