Welcome to OSP VI - 2010.
OSP VI is now over, but that was another awesome week of observing! We'll have to do it again next year...
The new addition this year is a shower building....
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Hot and cold running water, and no wind.
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Let the sun shine in.
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Let the sun shine in, or lights on!
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Arrival!
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Awesome first night!
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Gene relaxing after an all-nighter.
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Barbecued Chicken.
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Tom and Jenn arrived the next day on their way back from the Grand Canyon Star Party.
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Tom had a fish-eye lens for some pretty wide-field photos.
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Tom also had a H-Alpha scope. Not much detail that day as we hadn't started towards the next Solar Max yet.
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Tom and Jenn's scope on the observing field.
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As night was approaching the 36" was uncovered and prepped.
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Early Evening.
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A picture of the guys; left to right, Gene, Tom, and Steven.
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Tom took some photo's of the night sky with observers on the ladder. This one is of Jenn.
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Tom also brought a tracking platform and a refractor for those wide-field images of Comet McNaught.
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Lori brought the dogs up with her when she arrived. Left to right; Sagan, Steven, and Kuiper.
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One more of the puppies.
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It was on the warm side that day but we still had a game of horse shoes.
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All of us were reasonbly good, all the shoes were in the pit.
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Photo Op!
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Friday night was our 'Beer Night' as clouds and rain were in the area.
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Normally Saturday night would have been steak night with the shot of whiskey, but..., we did a two-fer with the weather the way it was.
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Every year the bottle gets a new mark with a date. There's one anomolous line with "Mother-in-Law, when I had taken the bottle home one year....
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Steaks a grillin'.
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Ribeyes!
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...and fries.
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Lori was behind the scenes making all the rest of the dinner.
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Dig In!!!
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I was able to get some decent shots of the storms. I'm really glad the rain missed us.
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And one shot of the storms and the observing area.
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Every year attendee's carve their initials and/or date into the North Starr Bar table. Here Tom's helping by holding the chisle while Jenn pounds, apparently on top of Tom's thumb....
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Jenn starts the carving.
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Here's the table with everyone's new marks.
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While Tom, Jenn, and Lori had to leave after the weekend, Don made it for a brat's dinner of the last night.
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Don's relaxing after much driving.
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We were looking at yet another clear night of observing so Don's pouring over the charts..
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Don had a DSLR camera so he snapped a picture of me on the scope with the Moon.
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Here's a picture Tom took of the scope and the Summer Milkyway. Beautiful skies, good friends, awesome time!
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