On the road: Great Lakes Star Gaze preview

On the road: Great Lakes Star Gaze preview

Posted 09-24-2008 by Michael Bakich

On Thursday, I’ll leave Milwaukee and drive around Lake Michigan to the Great Lakes Star Gaze (GLSG), near Gladwin, Michigan. This will mark the 6th year of this annual event. In 2008, GLSG runs from September 25–28.

As the invited speaker, I won’t need to bring a telescope or even binoculars. I’m just going to wander the observing field chatting with folks and looking through their scopes.

I’m giving two talks while at GLSG: “How the Constellations Came to Be” and “Take the Sharpless Catalog Challenge.” Astronomy also has provided a few nice door prizes for the organizers.

As I did from the Pacific Astronomy and Telescope Show, I'll be posting updates and images to Astronomy.com blogs from this event.

Editor's note: The local paper, The Bay City Times, previewed the star party and Michael's appearance in a blog post "Family events focus on astronomy."

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Antitax said:

Observers are willing to share their instruments and you could indeed attend a star party using only other people's scopes and binoculars. But there's no way I would go to a star party without my Fujinon 16x70 binoculars. I'll buy the smaller and lighter Nikon 10x50 Extreme for astro/terrestrial viewing, and it will be the minimal equipment I'll carry on the observing field. While others set up their bulky monocular telescopes, I take a sky tour of about fifteen deep-sky goodies with the 16x70. I would feel utterly deprived of tools without at least a 10x50. My C5 sees deeper and magnifies more but I can't stargaze without the quick viewing ability of my own binocs at my neck, permanently available for immediate sighting.

September 26, 2008 4:52 PM