WSIG Texas 45 - Fall Night 1 at Dark Site - Check weather

Special 2-night Texas 45 weekend. Members, come on out to the Dark Site if you can but be sure to check the weather for Columbus, TX first. I’ll be there regardless but will not be sending a Go/No Go message /Rene

Our backup date for the Texas 45 Fall observing list is this weekend, Friday Nov 17 and Saturday Nov 18. We'll be really informal about this one. If it's good enough observing weather, I'll be onsite in my private observatory. It's the blue SkyShed POD to the east of the Dob Shed. Feel free to come by and I'll help you find objects, Texas 45 or your request, until the 10 pm light window. No caravan and strict light rules apply on this new moon weekend. /Rene 

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Let’s do the HAS Texas 45 together! This is an easy list and the class is open to all. Members of the WSIG are the instructors. Many objects are on the November SkyMap.

Texas 45 objects we'll attempt 

• Fomalhaut, naked eye star, on SkyMap
• Beta Piscis Austrini, naked eye/binocular to find, telescope to split double star system, on SkyMap but not labelled
• Grus, naked eye constellation, on SkyMap
• Achernar, naked eye star, among the trees but may be able to see bright blue star on meridian due south at 10:45p, worth the attempt
• h Persei, aka NGC 869 and one half of the Double Cluster, binocular object, on SkyMap
• Chi Persei, aka NGC 884, other half of the Double Cluster, binocular object, on SkyMap
• Muscle Man Cluster, aka Stock 2, binocular or small telescope, not on SkyMap but worth it and in​ the​ same neighborhood ​as the Double Cluster
• ET Cluster, aka NGC 457, binocular and small telescope object, ​not on SkyMap but ​in the suburbs of the Double Cluster
• Andromeda Galaxy, M31, naked eye for some, binocular​ object​ to take it all in, on SkyMap
• Pinwheel Galaxy, M33, binocular or telescope (or naked eye for some!), on SkyMap
• Evening solar system objects: Mercury, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune

To join the WSIG, the Women’s Special Interest Group, contact HAS_Women@astrolist.org