Rosamond Report

Rosamond Report 7/3/06

I almost didn't go set up, after all
most weekday nights are slow ones, but
I looked at the tv listing and yuk. So
I grabed my shirt and hat and headed
to the corner, so I was set up by just
after 8pm. Didn't have a lot stop, only
about 6 people, but it was nice anyway.
First two where two guys, one said his
lady had gotten him a Meade scope for
xmass, and he wanted to compair it's
views with mine. After looking at Jupiter
and then the moon he said his was trash.
I asked what kind, it's a 900mm refactor,
normal DST. I gave him my card with the
FAQ address on it so he could read it.

Two young gals had a fast look at the
two objects and the Star Vega too, just
after they left a CHP car pulled in from
the sidestreet and close enough to talk,
he couldn't get out, but asked if I had
seen the comet the night before, I told
him it wasn't a comet but a hunk of rock
instead and no, I'd not been able to
spot it. I gave him my FAQ card too, who
knows, he might stop by off duty someday.

The last two people to come over was a
man/lady and she had a question, could
I help her find a star, and she had the
papers to show where it is. Yep, I'd been
waiting for this, someone to show up with
a star named for them! The FF lights
went out so I went over and read the data
via my cars headlights, don't know what
star map they used, but they give the star
their own catalog name/number, had a map
showing where it is,this one was in LEO
and a very super bright mag 14.15, I then
let her know that I'd have to be way out
away from town in a totaly dark area to
be able to find that faint of a star.

They said they'd come back another time too,
they had spent over 45 mins talking to me and
me showing them the sky and telling what I
could about stars and the naming of stars.


--
The Lone Sidewalk Astronomer of Rosamond

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