It Ain't That Cold Outside: A Winter Sky Tour

Описание: For this middle-of-winter talk, Rod gives the NC Astronomers club a dozen reasons why we should be outside observing or imaging the night sky. He includes proper preparation of your equipment and yourself, and highlights a dozen features in the winter sky worth gazing at.

Rod grew up ten miles north of Neil Armstrong’s hometown of Wapakoneta, Ohio. He watched the moon landings as a small child and regularly visited the Neil Armstrong Air and Space Museum that was built to honor his hometown hero. However, he always took for granted the Milky Way that was in the sky each night. The interest in space and astronomy he had as a child mostly went dormant in adulthood while he attended college, served as a naval officer, and had a career first in high-tech manufacturing and then transportation planning.

A couple years ago, after his daughter was off to college and he had reduced his work hours on his way to retirement, that interest in the night skies began to reemerge. Now living in Nevada City, he bought a telescope to explore the darker skies that were remote when he lived in the Bay Area. He is now an enthusiastic observer of the faint fuzzies of the deep sky, and he goes out to observe whenever he can.