Rosamond Report

Rosamond Report

Figured this would be the last time to set up
as I'd be switching over to weekend only and
for many moon viewing.

Got up to the area and figured I'd better put
a bit of gas in the car, found arco out of
gas so had to use citco at a higher price.

Got the scope set up and my camera too, I shoot
venus and Jupiter with it for about 5 shots.

Still had people come up and ask about MARS, so
I gave out the rest of my MARS info sheets,
a lot of the folks where there just to ask about
MARS, and didn't take a look. During a brake I
saw a guy trying to push his car to the arco station,
which by now had gotten a load of gas, he was
one legged and no one was stopping to help
they would just go around him, so I ran over and
helpped him get his car to the station, just as we
reached the station driveway a CHP pulled up behind
used his car to push it the rest of the way in.
I took two extra asprin right away as I knew my knees
would be telling me about it.

Last two guys where from the racetrack and one guy
could never understand how come we only see the same
side of the moon, so using his buddy, him, and myself
I set up a makeshift demo and gave him the info along
with it. When he left he understood, and this is good,
after 50+ years of not understanding!

His buddy had asked if I knew the radio program
by "Art Bell" and he said some NASA Astronaut who had
been on an Apollo mission had said on the show that he
had seen "Lights" on the otherside ( Dark ) of the moon.
Then he came up with the Face on Mars, I've got to find a
B/W photo of that so I can print it out to show to ones
like him, so they can see what it's like.

Saturday night was slower, but still had mostly young folks
stop by along with a few others. Along with the planets and
stars, I got to watch the cops running back and forth,
don't know what was going on, but they where running a lot.
All total I had about 10 people that night.

Sunday was DEAD, even foster freeze was slow, for the 2 hours
I was there the only place I saw doing a lot of sales
was arco, what with gas at $2.93 a lot of drivers stop there
before heading into L.A.

So now I switch over to following the moon, until MARS gets
into the early evening sky.



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Starlord wrote:
Rosamond Report

Figured this would be the last time to set up
as I'd be switching over to weekend only and
for many moon viewing.

Got up to the area and figured I'd better put
a bit of gas in the car, found arco out of
gas so had to use citco at a higher price.

Got the scope set up and my camera too, I shoot
venus and Jupiter with it for about 5 shots.

Still had people come up and ask about MARS, so
I gave out the rest of my MARS info sheets,
a lot of the folks where there just to ask about
MARS, and didn't take a look. During a brake I
saw a guy trying to push his car to the arco station,
which by now had gotten a load of gas, he was
one legged and no one was stopping to help
they would just go around him, so I ran over and
helpped him get his car to the station, just as we
reached the station driveway a CHP pulled up behind
used his car to push it the rest of the way in.
I took two extra asprin right away as I knew my knees
would be telling me about it.

Last two guys where from the racetrack and one guy
could never understand how come we only see the same
side of the moon, so using his buddy, him, and myself
I set up a makeshift demo and gave him the info along
with it. When he left he understood, and this is good,
after 50+ years of not understanding!

His buddy had asked if I knew the radio program
by "Art Bell" and he said some NASA Astronaut who had
been on an Apollo mission had said on the show that he
had seen "Lights" on the otherside ( Dark ) of the moon.
Then he came up with the Face on Mars, I've got to find a
B/W photo of that so I can print it out to show to ones
like him, so they can see what it's like.


Check out the Wikipedia article on the 'Mars face'...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Face_on_Mars

Print out both the Viking picture and the Global Surveyor picture for a
comparison.

Its interesting. When you squint at the Global Surveyor picture, the
face actually becomes more visible.

Stupot


BTW, does anyone know what the 'raw' orientation of the Viking pic was?
I wonder if the face would have been spotted if the face was upside down...

Saturday night was slower, but still had mostly young folks
stop by along with a few others. Along with the planets and
stars, I got to watch the cops running back and forth,
don't know what was going on, but they where running a lot.
All total I had about 10 people that night.

Sunday was DEAD, even foster freeze was slow, for the 2 hours
I was there the only place I saw doing a lot of sales
was arco, what with gas at $2.93 a lot of drivers stop there
before heading into L.A.

So now I switch over to following the moon, until MARS gets
into the early evening sky.