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Friday, 4:00-5:30 pm on the Yurt deck

Bring your astronomy, observing, or space-related items to sell. Bring your cash to get those items you need. Bring more cash for the items you want. Bring even more to get items you didn’t even know exist.

All transactions will be simply private between buyers and sellers. Sellers should stay with their items as long as they are on display.

Informal Visual Observing
Evenings, Friday and Saturday. Meet on the Yellow Observing Field (look for the red marker light).

This will be available every night at dusk to chat with beginners on a variety of observing topics. This informal get-together could cover anything from how to locate and recognize deep sky objects, types of objects to observe, tips on seeing faint objects, etc. Beginners questions will steer the topics discussed. Drop by for a short while or stay until the chat winds up for the evening. This is informal! Appropriate for observers of all experience levels.

This is a “behind-the-scenes” tour, so you’ll get to visit labs, engineering facilities, and the telescope control room – locations that are normally off-limits to the public!

IMPORTANT NOTE: Cameras are welcome at GBO, however their use is restricted. In order to prevent radio-frequency interference to observations in progress, the observatory prohibits the use of digital cameras (and electronics-laden film cameras) in some locations close to the telescopes. Bring a simple film camera if you’d like to take pictures up close to the instruments.

We’ll hand out directions to GBO from SKMC before we go. If you’re arriving from off-site, GBO has a great map with directions to help.

Back Ridge Observatory Open House

Saturday & Sunday, 3:00 pm at  the observatory, or meet 2:45 pm on the deck.

Host is Joe Morris

Joe will open the observatory he has made available for SKMC’s use, on the ridge northwest of the observing fields.

Informal Visual Observing
Evenings, Friday and Saturday. Meet on the Yellow Observing Field (look for the red marker light).

This will be available every night at dusk to chat with beginners on a variety of observing topics. This informal get-together could cover anything from how to locate and recognize deep sky objects, types of objects to observe, tips on seeing faint objects, etc. Beginners questions will steer the topics discussed. Drop by for a short while or stay until the chat winds up for the evening. This is informal! Appropriate for observers of all experience levels.