Messier Marathon at East Beach
East Beach, Charlestown
March 20, 2010 at 7:00 pm
Dear members and friends, The Messier season is again upon us. The ASNH group has invited us to attend a Messier marathon with them on Friday, March 12. It would be a great opportunity to observe with the New Haven group and the skies are quite dark at the camp site. Unfortunately the weather did not cooperate with their plans.
The third weekend is also nice to obtain many Messier objects.. There will be as slight chance of some interference due to he moon. Charlestown is a fairly dark site and with a 22% moon it should not be a big concern.
The following information is provided for Charlestown, Washington County, Rhode Island (longitude W71.7, latitude N41.4):
Saturday 20 March 2010 Eastern Daylight Time
SUN
Begin civil twilight 6:23 a.m.
Sunrise 6:50 a.m.
Sun transit 12:54 p.m.
Sunset 6:59 p.m.
End civil twilight 7:26 p.m.
MOON
Moonse 11:16 p.m. on preceding day
Moonrise 8:50 a.m.
Moon transit 4:32 p.m.
Moonset 12:22 a.m. on following day
Phase of the Moon on 20 March: waxing crescent with 22% of the Moon's visible disk illuminated. First quarter Moon on 23 March 2010 at 7:01 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time.
A group of us will be going to East Beach parking lot where we have set up on other occasions.
Please join us for an evening of Stargazing or if you are so inclined try for Messier objects. We will be on Daylight Savings time and will target 7:00PM on Saturday the 20th of March for a start time.
Get directions to East Beach, Charlestown
March 20, 2010 at 7:00 pm
Dear members and friends, The Messier season is again upon us. The ASNH group has invited us to attend a Messier marathon with them on Friday, March 12. It would be a great opportunity to observe with the New Haven group and the skies are quite dark at the camp site. Unfortunately the weather did not cooperate with their plans.
The third weekend is also nice to obtain many Messier objects.. There will be as slight chance of some interference due to he moon. Charlestown is a fairly dark site and with a 22% moon it should not be a big concern.
The following information is provided for Charlestown, Washington County, Rhode Island (longitude W71.7, latitude N41.4):
Saturday 20 March 2010 Eastern Daylight Time
SUN
Begin civil twilight 6:23 a.m.
Sunrise 6:50 a.m.
Sun transit 12:54 p.m.
Sunset 6:59 p.m.
End civil twilight 7:26 p.m.
MOON
Moonse 11:16 p.m. on preceding day
Moonrise 8:50 a.m.
Moon transit 4:32 p.m.
Moonset 12:22 a.m. on following day
Phase of the Moon on 20 March: waxing crescent with 22% of the Moon's visible disk illuminated. First quarter Moon on 23 March 2010 at 7:01 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time.
A group of us will be going to East Beach parking lot where we have set up on other occasions.
Please join us for an evening of Stargazing or if you are so inclined try for Messier objects. We will be on Daylight Savings time and will target 7:00PM on Saturday the 20th of March for a start time.
Get directions to East Beach, Charlestown