{"id":4226,"date":"2013-03-12T13:25:10","date_gmt":"2013-03-12T17:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/?p=4226"},"modified":"2013-03-12T13:35:49","modified_gmt":"2013-03-12T17:35:49","slug":"kaon-session","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/2013\/03\/kaon-session\/","title":{"rendered":"KAON session"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Saturday March 9th, 2013 we held another Kingston Astronomy Outreach Network Open House and Observing session at the Queen’s University Observatory on Ellis Hall.<\/p>\n

The talk was on “Heavenly Errors: Misconceptions About The Universe”
\nby
\nDr. Terry Bridges (Queen’s University)
\nThe talk went from approx 19:35 EST to 20:30 EST in Ellis Hall Room 324
\nAbout 155 people were in attendance, with a packed room for the talk with many others joining us out on the observing deck.<\/p>\n

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\nKim and I were out on the deck with the 20cm Fitzgerald telescope, a dobsonian mount f7 fl=1385mm (56″) reflector built by the club in 1997. Coming up on 20 years old!<\/p>\n

It was a busy night but luckily another person showed up with a scope (thanks Rick!) and we were able to handle the cub-scout rugrats, amongst many others.
\nTargets of the night were basically just Jupiter and its moons (Io, Jupiter, then Europa, Ganymede and Callisto).
\nThere was cloud and haze, a lot of cloud at times.
\nIt was so busy that we went well past the designated stop time of 21:00, even a little past 10pm.<\/p>\n

\"barney\"<\/a>Because of the large crowds and only the one operational deck scope, we are thinking of staging a 2nd dobsonian scope there, the 20cm (8″) f4.5 fl=1400mm (36″) Barney Dobsonian telescope built in 1999. The less equipment one has to lug up to the top floor, the better! <\/p>\n

The observatory folks are also attempting to find funds for another operational scope for the deck…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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