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On 9/11/05, SLK1000@aol.com  wrote:

> I have been a lurker on this list since the late Tony Severdia
> introduced me to it around 1994.

I am glad Stan Klein finally has made his first post!  Great summary
Stan.  (Can you believe he has lurked for 11 years?)

I very much enjoyed this Lunars Workshop.  I learned a lot and made
many new friendships.  Don Treworgy, the head of the Mystic Seaport
Planetarium, is to be thanked for his help in hosting the activity,
and Frank Reed gave a great presentation: 2 hrs 35 minutes, followed
by almost another hour of math (the best part!).

Frank's biggest accomplishment is that he got many of us to actually
take a lunar distance site.  They are in one sense not hard at all,
but in another sense they are somewhat hard to do by yourself:
shooting the altitudes, then the lunar distance, and recording all of
the times and angles as one person, is quite a task - but well worth
it, and reasonable straightforward once you get the hang of it.

It appears that my Astra IIIb got messed up in its travels and is off
by quite a bit - I had the worse shots for the day - but it did give
us a chance to learn more about various adjustments and so forth.  I
should have brought my Tamaya Jupiter with its 7x35 scope...
hindsight.

It was quite a sight to see 8 men with sextants, using them, doing
lunars, at Stonington Point, CT, on a Saturday afternoon.  I think the
event may be historic.  I have some photos that once I return home I
will put on my website - or maybe I should just attach 30 MB of photos
to a posting?  ;-)  Ha!

We really should plan another such event next year and see if we can
get more of the list to attend.  Mystic Seaport is a good place for
such an event.  It gets my vote!

Well worth thousands of miles of driving.

Dan Allen
N 41 deg 07 min
W 78 deg 43 min
enroute to home

   

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