If there’s anything you’d like added to the agenda for our meeting Wednesday, May 2, 2012, at 6:15 p.m. at the Delta Vector Control District Offices, please comment here. Thanks! See you at the meeting. The tentative agenda is posted below. Tulare Astronomical Association May 2, 2012 Board Meeting Approve minutes of meeting of [...]
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Star Party in San Simeon
Last weekends star party in San Simeon was a lot of fun. More fun than actual observing.
The TAA Now Easier to Find on Facebook
We’ve got a new Facebook address for our group page: https://www.facebook.com/tulareastro.
TAA Observing Events This Weekend!
There are two chances this weekend to get under the stars with the Tulare Astronomical Association.
California City Observing Feb 18, 2012
Last month some of us attended the TAA star party in California City. Friday night turned out to be the warmest and the best night. Saturday was cold and windy. Sunday was good but very cold. Marks thermometer on Mead Hand-control registered a temperature of 27 deg. Friday night, Danny Eckes took this time-lapsed photo [...]
Pena Planetarium Observing
We had a good turn out after the planetarium show last Friday night. Those who came out enjoyed nice telescopic views of the Orion Nebula, the Moon and planets (Mars, Venus, and Jupiter) and several beautiful star clusters. It’s always exciting to learn about the universe through books, planetarium shows, and others such sources, but nothing compares [...]
Cal City Observing
The wind blew, the temps dropped, black clouds rolled in, but we still had a great time. Greg and I got some eyepiece time on Friday night and had fun looking for the Horsehead (yes, still trying), M42, M1, M81 and 82 and a host of other treats. After a few hours the clouds started [...]
Meade LXD55 Facelift
Howdy All, With some prodding from Greg and Butch, I have decided to to begin a small series of posts on the conversion of my scope and the many stages it has gone through on its journey to its current status. I am hoping the posts will be interesting to all and perhaps stir the [...]
Sky Commander
Hey all!! I’m looking forward to next weekend in the desert to put my new SC circles to good use. I’m really excited about the expanded database of objects and the way the database is laid out. I expect that it will make navigation to various objects much easier. Oh, by the way, my [...]
