POTTERY LANE - KNOWSLEY
ASTRONOMY EVENING - FRIDAY 6 NOVEMBER 2009
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Members of the Liverpool Astronomical Society, (founded in 1881), will display several telescopes for viewing the Moon and other objects in the night sky, if clear. There will also be an illustrated talk on astronomy.
This event is free, and is open to all members of the public.
To download a pdf doc poster advertising this event use the link below:
For more information contact:-
Stadt Moers Visitor Centre - 0151 489 1239
Liverpool Astronomical Society
Geoff Regan, Observatory Director - 0151 292 7165
Dave Owen, LAS Sidewalk Astronomers 07778 454524 *** http://angelfire.com/pokemon2/pirsig/sidewalk.html *** dowenlas@yahoo.com
For more details of this, and other Sidewalk/LAS events, go to the following URL:-
http://www.angelfire.com/pokemon2/pirsig/sidewalk.html
EVENT REPORT - Dave Owen - I arrived at this event, with Geoff & Chris Regan, at about 19:05. Although the weather prospects looked fairly poor, I decided to bring my new 4 inch f4 reflecting telescope and a table to put it on. There had been lots of rain but the clouds soon cleared to allow my little scope to show Jupiter and 3 of its moons, with a 12x eyepiece. I then found M31 fairly quickly, thanks to the 5 x 24 finderscope - my previous 4 inch f4 reflector did not have a finderscope and was, consequently, much more difficult to use.
At about 19:30 it started to rain again. Covers were quickly put on Jim Stacey's C6 GoTo telescope, Lawrence Ashworth's 4 inch refractor and Dave Bentley's 85mm refractor. I just carried my 4 inch scope indoors.
Brendan Martin entertained our small number of visitors with two illustrated talks - apparently, lots of people had phoned up about this event but had not turned up due to their not liking the look of the weather. In fact, there was a fair amount of clear weather for this event but we were only able to attract less than a dozen visitors. The previous week, on a drier but much more cloudy evening, we had 90 visitors!
By 19:50 the rain had stopped and the clearing skies allowed good views of a rising gibbous Moon. I was especially impressed with the view of M15 in Jim Lawler's 25 x 100 binoculars.
Many thanks to the Stadt Moers Ranger, Aaron, who allowed us to use his kitchen for hot drinks.
EVENT PICTURES by Jim Stacey:
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