Saturday, February 19, 2011

Observatory will be open from 10:30 to roughly midnight

We will open tonight for a couple hours. If you are over 18 or with a parent you are welcome.

Dress warm Abd beware of possible ice near the small gate in the parking lot. There may be some ice from the melting snow that froze again. This would be near the snow pile near the ticket booth.




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Wednesday, February 9, 2011

I cleared the snow off the dome

Seeing was not that good and it was cold out. I looked at three objects but decided to pack it in and worked mostly on the snow.

Although it was clear out I saw ripples from heat or air currents when I looked at the moon.

Before I looked I cleared off snow from the dome. Below is a picture of the done when it had snow on it.

I worked on clearing away sine snow from the small gate but there is a ton of snow near it.

I worked about an hour and cleared away a small amount of what is left. The snowball was about seven feet high. It's still there I'd work on it again buy I'm waiting fir the warm up.

An hour of shoveling was enough.


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