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HIGHLANDS STARGAZERS
STAR PARTY FOR HOME-SCHOOLERS:
There will be a star party for home shoolers at Chris Stephan's home hopefully during the winter of 2002. Check here for further updates.
The Orionids meteor shower reaches maximum on the night of October 20-21, 2001. The Highlands Stargazers will be observing the Orionids from our Leisure Lakes site off of Henscratch Rd. between Sebring, and Lake Placid. We will observe on Friday-Saturday, October 19-20, the night before maximum. Orion does not rise until midnight, so we will observe from midnight until ??? Observations will be submitted to the American Meteor Society. Orionid meteors originate from Orion near the Gemini border. They can be quite fast and lovely. Observers need a chase lounge chair, sleeping bag or blankets, clip board, pens, and red flash light, snack and warm drink. A telescope is not needed.
The Highlands Stargazers will be observing a grazing occultation of the 4.6 magnitude star 102 Tauri, ZC 752 on Saturday evening November 3, 2001. The central graze is predicted for 9:41 PM EST. The graze limit line runs about 1 mile northwest of Sebring Airport. We will be setting up stations from the entrance of the Airport and northwest up Airport Rd., County Rd. 17. The moon will be 91% sunlit. This is a northern limit graze. Observations will be sent to the International Occultation Timing Assoc. and Dr. Soma in Japan. Observers will need a telescope of 3 inch or larger, and tape recorder with fresh tape and batteries, and a shortwave radio set to WWV at 2.5, 5, 10, 15, or 20 MHz, and red flash light. If youhave any questions or would like to participate, please call Chris Stephan at 655-2651.
Members of the Highlands Stargazers participated in the HANDS ON ASTROPHYSICS WORKSHOP co-sponsered by the AAVSO and Highlands County Schools on August 2 and 3 of 2001. 20 teachers from Highlands and Okeechobee Counties learned software curriculum to help teach their students astronomy using variable stars as the topic.
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