[Peyton-observing] Peyton Public Observing, Fall 2022

[Rodrigo Córdova Rosado]

Reminder that this is happening soon! The pizza will be here around 6:45.

On Thu, Sep 15, 2022 at 3:41 PM Rodrigo Córdova Rosado <
rodrigoc at princeton.edu> wrote:

> Hey Everyone,
>
> From the poll looks like we’re gonna do this* Saturday, September 17th,
> at 7pm in Peyton!*
>
> I’ll order dinner day of from either Nomad or Jules Pizza, please let me
> know if you have any dietary restrictions. I’ll get gluten free, veggie,
> and vegan in any case. Thank you all!
>
> All the best,
> Rodrigo
>
> On Sep 13, 2022, at 3:35 PM, Rodrigo Córdova Rosado <
> rodrigoc at princeton.edu> wrote:
>
> Hey folks,
>
> Let's try this again: https://www.when2meet.com/?16807580-SRc8w
>
> Luckily it seems the next couple of days
> <https://www.cleardarksky.com/c/PrincetonNJkey.html?1> look quite good!
>
> All the best,
> Rodrigo
>
> On Fri, Sep 9, 2022 at 9:32 AM Rodrigo Córdova Rosado <
> rodrigoc at princeton.edu> wrote:
>
>> Hey everyone,
>>
>> Thanks for filling out the when2meet (and remember to fill out the
>> semester availability!). Seems the best time is Saturday at 7pm was the
>> best time, however the weather window seems to have closed on us (for the
>> record, Clear Dark Sky
>> <https://www.cleardarksky.com/c/PrincetonNJkey.html?1>is an excellent
>> tool for seeing observing conditions):
>> <image.png>
>> So I'll make the final call tomorrow morning, but it seems we'll have to
>> wait until the next window to have some time on the sky (it's looking like
>> next Wednesday/Thursday).
>>
>> Thank you again for such quick responses and we'll plan for the next one
>> soon.
>>
>> Regardless, Sam and I will be there for the first public observing night,
>> and anyone who wants to learn on the day can come up with us a bit earlier.
>>
>> All the best,
>> Rodrigo
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 8, 2022 at 10:07 AM Rodrigo Córdova Rosado <
>> rodrigoc at princeton.edu> wrote:
>>
>>> TLDR: *Action Required, *Come learn to point the telescope on stars,
>>> planets, and everything else; dinner will be provided!
>>>
>>> Hey everyone,
>>>
>>> Thank you for signing up for Public Observing! Quick reminder, please
>>> fill out the google form to organize when folks are available this
>>> semester: https://forms.gle/6s52BcbWBr5QJjyD9.
>>>
>>> As Sam mentioned, I’ll be teaching how to use the telescope on the sky
>>> now that it seems we have a weather window the next couple of days. In
>>> order for public observing nights to run smoothly, we’ll need at least one
>>> experienced observer, preferably two. If you’d like to be one please fill
>>> out this when2meet <https://www.when2meet.com/?16726144-WEXwn>
>>>  promptly: https://www.when2meet.com/?16726144-WEXwn , to decide when
>>> over then next 3 days would be most convenient for the training/additional
>>> experience.
>>>
>>> *Dinner will be provided!  *
>>>
>>> All the best,
>>> Rodrigo
>>>
>>> On Sep 6, 2022, at 10:11 PM, Samuel Yee <swyee at princeton.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>> Dear all,
>>>
>>> Thank you to those of you who came to our orientation meeting today! And
>>> if you couldn't make it, that's totally fine, a brief summary of our
>>> discussion follows.
>>>
>>> I'm happy that we're planning to restart public observing this semester,
>>> after two years of not having it thanks to the pandemic. Thank you too for
>>> volunteering your time and suggestions!
>>>
>>> If you'd like to help out, please fill up the following form to let me
>>> know your availability for this semester:
>>> https://forms.gle/6s52BcbWBr5QJjyD9
>>> I will create a schedule and send it out to you, and will also confirm
>>> again a week before any date you're scheduled to help out.
>>>
>>> Our public observing nights are typically held once a month on
>>> Wednesdays, beginning at 8:30 PM in the summer and 8 PM in the winter. We
>>> use the 12-inch telescope on the top floor of Peyton Hall for this. They
>>> typically run for around 2 hours, and attract a crowd of ~ 30 - 100 people,
>>> depending on the season. We draw a good mix of people, including kids with
>>> their parents, students, people who live in the area, etc. We typically
>>> schedule these nights close to the new moon, plus a "rain date" a week
>>> later in case of inclement weather.
>>>
>>> I only briefly showed everyone the telescope operations today, since the
>>> weather was being uncooperative. Rodrigo has agreed to help organize
>>> another night to show you how to use the telescope when the weather is
>>> better, if you're able to attend. In any case, each observing night will
>>> have at least one experienced observer, and we'll make sure to go over
>>> things with the observers before any public observing night.
>>>
>>> We had a couple of great suggestions from today's meeting, and I'm
>>> hoping to implement the following:
>>> - Since it's hard to accommodate everyone in the telescope room at once,
>>> we're hoping to have some of the observers down in the auditorium, who can
>>> help answer questions from the public. They can also give a brief 5-minute
>>> short talk about something we will show in the sky that night, or something
>>> related to their research, accompanied by pretty pictures that can
>>> hopefully spark some questions/discussion.
>>> - We talked about having a "Halloween special", possibly with candy, and
>>> I've included those nights as possible dates in the poll.
>>> - Given the hiatus we had, I'm not sure how people will find out that
>>> we've restarted these events. People suggested placing an ad in the local
>>> newspaper, posters in the library, reaching out to local schools, and
>>> posting in the postdoc/grad student slack groups. Please email me if you'd
>>> like to help out with any of these! I will also reach out to Stephanie
>>> regarding posting it on the department's social media pages.
>>> - If you'd like to help out with improving the website
>>> <https://www.astro.princeton.edu/observatory/publicobserving.php>, etc.
>>> please let me know.
>>>
>>> If you have any other comments or questions, please feel free to send me
>>> an email. Do forward this to other people in the department who might be
>>> interested but weren't at the meeting today, so they can subscribe to the
>>> mailing list too.
>>>
>>> Thanks again everyone!
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Sam Yee
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>>>
>>
>> --
>> Rodrigo E. L. Córdova Rosado
>> Graduate Student
>> Department of Astrophysical Sciences
>> Princeton University
>> rodrigoc at princeton.edu
>>
>>
> --
Rodrigo E. L. Córdova Rosado
Graduate Student
Department of Astrophysical Sciences
Princeton University
rodrigoc at princeton.edu
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