Michael,
I agree with Mark. I think that both OIs and ORs about solar observing
are welcome on TAC. They are about visual observing and about
astronomical objects, so it seems to me that they fit in with TAC's
charter. There's plenty of clutter on TAC occasionally, but this isn't
it.
Your new group could still serve several purposes while keeping some of
the traffic on TAC. People could post longer ORs on the subgroup and
summary or abstract ORs on TAC. Or they could defer the really deep
equipment discussions (sorry, Bill) to the subgroup, etc.
But I think it is really nice to see some solar ORs occasionally. And
really important for us occasional solar observers are posts like "hey,
the sun is really active today -- you oughtta get out there and take a
look".
Just my 2 cents.
Bob J.
--- "M. Bracewell" <markb@No-Spam> wrote:
> Michael - though I haven't yet made it to one of your solar cafe
> lunches, I have to say I have been *immensely* entertained and
> educated
> by your posts and the responses on this list - it is after all an
> observers list and that's what you do. So, while I wish you much
> success
> in your new list, I would still love to love to receive at least the
> notifications you send about where you might be observing via TAC - I
> promise I'll show up one of these days. Did I say *immensely*?...,
> really, it's been a welcome education for a newbie. I wouldn't have
> given the sun a second thought were it not for your magnanimous
> contribution..
>
> -- Mark
>
>
>
> Rather than clutter up the message log of this group with my postings
> about solar lunches and solar observing parties, etc..
>
>
Received on Sun Aug 1 08:26:26 2004