[Peyton-observing] Public Observing 2017-18

[Atirath Dhara]

Hello Prof. Gunn,
Unfortunately, I won’t be able to attend the meeting on Monday, but am still interested in continuing this year!

Best,
Atirath 



> On Sep 20, 2017, at 10:06 AM, Luke Bouma <bouma.luke at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Forwarding Jim's message --
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> From: jeg at astro.princeton.edu <mailto:jeg at astro.princeton.edu> <jeg at astro.princeton.edu <mailto:jeg at astro.princeton.edu>>
> Date: Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 8:21 AM
> Subject: Public Observing 2017-18
> To: "all at astro.princeton.edu <mailto:all at astro.princeton.edu>" <all at astro.princeton.edu <mailto:all at astro.princeton.edu>>
> 
> 
> That time of year again, and am making my annual call for volunteers to
> help with public observing.  We have a 12-inch Meade Schmidt-Cassegrain
> telescope on the roof of Peyton and open it to the community once a month
> for regular public observing (see the 'Monthly observing events for the
> public' link at the top of the the astro.princeton.edu <http://astro.princeton.edu/> website -- many
> thanks to Steve Bickerton for writing this site).  The sky here is pretty
> bright, but you can still see enough bright star clusters, nearby
> galaxies, planets, emission nebulae, and colorful visual binaries to make
> an interesting evening, and they are enthusiastically received by the
> visitors.  This is an excellent opportunity for you to meet and talk to a
> public quite interested in what we do.
> 
> I run this enterprise (with a lot of help), but the last few years we
> have had a wonderful group of volunteers -- undergraduates, graduate
> students, postdocs, and research staff -- who ran most of the sessions.
> Luke Bouma (bouma.luke at gmail.com <mailto:bouma.luke at gmail.com>) is my `second-in-command, who actually
> does all the work).
> 
> We will train new folks in the use of the telescope, which is a modern
> machine which has built-in catalogs and after some simple initial setup
> will point to objects it knows about (many more than can be seen under
> Megalopolis skies) at the operator's bidding.
> 
> There are in addition to the regular public sessions various special
> requests from scout groups, classes, clubs, etc, perhaps another 10
> sessions during the year. I will call for volunteers for these on an
> ad hoc basis.
> 
> Please let me know if you are interested, and if you are please have a
> serious look at the public webpage and the more technical ones
> (www.astro.princeton.edu/observatory--there <http://www.astro.princeton.edu/observatory--there> is also a link off the public
> page) which will tell you quite a bit about the sessions and the
> equipment.
> 
> We will have organizational/training meeting (with pizza) next week on
> Monday at 7:00, during which we will go over the operation of the telescope,
> logistics for the sessions, etc. Please let me know if you are interested
> (so I can get enough pizza ;=)). If you cannot come to the meeting, you
> are still welcome in the program, and we can arrange for you to be
> trained on the telescope.
> 
> For those in other departments on this list, if you could bring this to
> the attention of interested students and staff in your department, it
> would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> thanks much
> 
> --jim
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