Highlights of GTAS Activities for 2007
Friday Night Live
Scenes
from August 10th:
(Photos by Scott Anttila)
Scenes from July 27th: (Photos by Scott Anttila)
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| Viewing Jupiter through Scott Anttila's 12" Dobsonian. | As the evening winds down, GTAS members stay and offer views through Scott's telescope and Richard Kuschell's refractor. |
Scenes from July 27th: (Photos by Scott Anttila)
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| Richard Kuschell (black shirt) helping kids look at a star cluster through one of Scott Anttila's telescopes (50 stars on the flag on a flag on the top pf a bank building) | It's kind of hard to read a clock on that building when it's upside down and backward through Richard Kuschell's telescope. |
Sidewalk Astronomy
Richard Kuschell and Bob Moler set up their telescopes on State and Cass in Traverse City July 14th, the last night of the Cherry Festival, to offer festival goers a look at Venus before and Jupiter after the finale fireworks.. |
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| Bob explains Jupiter and its moons to some folks that stopped by | Richard helps youngsters at the telescope |
The Annual Picnic - August 11th
The food was great - the sky was not. Photos by Bob Moler except where noted.
Sweet corn, salads, baked beans, pies - great food, great companionship on the hilltop
Nearing sunset. We already had a sprinkling of rain, but that cloud above the sun later turned out to develop into a thunderstorm, so we has to vacate the hill before the clear skies got to us.
The picnickers minus 1, taken by Eileen Carlisle.
That cloud behind us is getting closer and will begin to start leaking. Soon the thunder and lightening will start - We're outta here.
An enlarged section of the National Weather Service Radar Mosaic of the Great Lakes Region showing the small storm passing over the Leelanau Peninsula and our picnic site.
