Getting some press

Stars Over Bozeman got some press coverage today.  Mike Mestas from NBC-KTVM met with Charlie Rose this afternoon and filmed a segment for today’s news.

KTVM interviewing Charlie Rose for Stars over Bozeman

Mini Star Party with the 13″ Gorsky

Tonight in the park in front of my house here in Harvest Creek, I put on a star party for some teen kids playing in the park at dusk and 5th grade kids up the street having a birthday party sleep over thing. I got Saturn just as it was visible and was able to zoom in pretty good. The air was great with steady viewing. Then moved onto double stars Mizar, and Alberio. As it got dark enough the Ring and Hercules Cluster came into view well.  This is what the teenage kids got to see. At 10:30, on cue, the International Space Station flew right over and the 5th graders all showed up and got good views of Saturn & such.  A great night for a spur of the moment event here on the first really nice evenings of summer. There were 7 teens, 8 Fifth graders and 5 adults. Lots a fun. Gorsky worked great.

Bozeman Aurora

On today’s Spaceweather.com web site, a beautiful picture of the Aurora was posted.  What makes it so great is that the picture was taken in Bozeman!  By Dr. Joe Shaw of MSU, our July Stars over Yellowstone speaker.  Nice going Joe.  Check out the website!

“AURORAS INVADE THE USA: A high-speed solar wind stream hit Earth’s magnetic field on May 2nd, sparking a geomagnetic storm that lasted more than 15 hours. Red auroras spilled across the Canadian border and were spotted in several US states. Joseph Shaw sends this picture from Bozeman, Montana:

“The red auroras were just visible to the naked eye and easily captured by my Nikon D300,” says Shaw. “Excellent treat!”

Come back Shane!

It was great to hear Dr. Shane Larson speak about life out there, and space travel.   Thanks to everyone involved .

Free single axis motor drive system

I have a Orion EQ-2M motor drive that I can’t use on an equatorial mount system.

Stars over Yellowstone

Has there been any dates set yet for Yellowstone 2010 yet.  Just thinking about trying to book  some camping spots.

Todd

APOD of Interest

Take a look a this Astronomy Picture of the Day from the 20th. It is a tour of the known Universe and as the camera moves away from the Earth, it shows the limit of all radio transmissions from humans.  I found this to be very interesting and pertinent to Dr. Larson’s lecture last night.

Quantum leap in our website

Robert,
This is a quantum leap in the functionality of our web site.