It's Recyclables Day
42 degrees with patchy clouds at 6:30
The WKTV Weather Forecast: "A warm front will bring clouds and a few rain showers to Central New York today. Sprinkles are possible this morning, but the most widespread shower activity looks to take place in the afternoon. High temperatures in the mid to upper 60s. Breezy, with an east wind between 10-20mph throughout the day.
Decreasing clouds tonight with lows in the 40s.
Much warmer weather to finish out the week. Highs in the 70s with partly sunny skies for Thursday, Friday, and Saturday.
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Yesterday
Graupel, again, up in Hanover.
Temperatures dipped close to thirty degrees on Monday night and although some folks lost newly planted annuals, none of the blossoms on flowering trees or shrubs seem to have been harmed.
Probably no one who helped plant this Flowing Crab Tree in the alcove at Grace Church, thirty or more years ago, had any idea it would grow to be this large.
One of the most showy Crabapple trees, right now, is this - next to the Swanberg Home.
In no danger of being frost-bitten, these doorway decorations at
the Baumgarten residence on Madison Street .......
........and at Jim and Nancy Morgan's on Stafford Avenue.
The Rose-breasted Grosbeaks and Baltimore Orioles have returned to Whiskey Hollow.
Indigo Buntings should be here, too, and perhaps they are. They are much smaller than the grosbeaks and orioles, and I always feel fortunate to catch just one glimpse of that bright blue in a honeysuckle bush near the creek.
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The Rose-breasted Grosbeaks and Baltimore Orioles have returned to Whiskey Hollow.
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TODAY
WCS SPORTS
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AT THE LIBRARY
Movie matinée at 1:00
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LEGO Mania at 2:00
LEGO Mania at 2:00
Waterville Historical Society annual meeting, 7 p.m.
A brief "State of the Society" annual report and election of officers for 2013-2014.
The program will be about "powder horns". Town of Western Historical Society member, Gary Eisenbeck, will share his collection of horns and discuss the history of this critical necessity of 19th century America. these powder horns were the companion to every musket in early American and were carried by hunters, soldiers and explorers. They were as simple as a canvas bag to highly decorated and inscribed horns or other materials.
Refreshments will follow the meeting and program.
Refreshments will follow the meeting and program.
All are welcome.
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IN THE MAIL
Jeff Reynolds forwarded to me this photograph of the "Sombrero Galaxy" that had been taken at the observatory by one of the MVAS members on Monday evening using the new, recently-installed telescope.
There was a technical description attached in which the photographer wrote: "Just wanted to touch base with everyone regarding the status of the new scope/mount. I purchased a new power adapter for the Losmandy mount which is specifically designed for the mount. I directly purchased it from Losmandy.
Online it was rated 13.8V 4.4A output. When I opened the package it looked at the specs on the back of the power supply it read 15V 4.4A. Well this was a pleasant surprise:) This mount CAN run up to 18v. The 12v adapter was not adequate to slew the scope. It constantly stalled. No matter what we did as far a gear spacing or balancing, it did stall! Not to mention that this was Jeff's power adapter and we accidently used it.
I went down to the observatory and hooked up the heavy gauge, grounded power cord and fired up the Losmandy mount. Well it now performs flawlessly!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It slewed powerfully around the sky. The stalling was indeed the result of the lack of sufficient power.
The clouds slowly rolled in as one would expect in central NY:( but I did manage to take some quick one minute exposures of the Sombrero Galaxy @ ISO 6400. NO FILTERS were used in the images (4 decent ones) Any exposures longer than one minute tended to slightly trail. The seeing was poor!"
And Jeff added:
"Wow! Bottom line is that we have two magnificent telescopes up and running. "
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More when it happens!
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