[Friends_of_SSASTROS] Just a Reminder

[Mike McCabe]

Hi Vernon, 
That name pops up on my Stellarium desktop app, and like you I hadn't heard of it before so I googled it;


Sounds simple enough, and it's funny how these things take hold. There's nothing official about it. You just throw it at the wall and if it sticks, there you have it. 
Mike

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  On Tue, May 9, 2023 at 1:24 PM, Vernon Fritch<vernonfritch at gmail.com> wrote:   Mike, thanks for the heads up on Venus at conjunction with the Shoebuckle Cluster tonight about 900PM.  Looking on top of Castor's westward foot (left if facing us), where one would expect a shoebuckle, I find with Skyguide, Messier 35, open cluster, magnitude 5.10, aka NGC 2168 in the location you outlined above.  I have not heard of M35 referred to as the Shoebuckle before.  I take it this is what you are describing. 
Thank you.
Vernon.


On Tue, May 9, 2023 at 12:38 PM Mike McCabe <cartech2000 at yahoo.com> wrote:

Hello Everyone,
As mentioned at the May meeting, tonight is the night for a potential binocular wonderfulness observation of Venus and M35 coming together for a visit. Look west around 9pm this evening and find Venus, which will be the single brightest dot in the sky looking in that direction. Raise your binos to the Goddess of Love, focus her, then place her in the upper right of your field of view (around 2 o'clock from a clock-face perspective). Now cast your gaze towards 8 o'clock in the field and see if you can pick up on the brighter components of the Shoebuckle cluster. This might be a little tricky for two reasons, one being that at 9pm the sky will still have not fully darkened in the west (it will have a half hour later, but then the pair will be below 20° and will be subject to more light pollution and atmospheric extinction) and the other that this stinkin' smoke situation might hamper the transparency enough to blot out the distant star cluster. Still, it never hurts to visit your low western horizon viewing site, and especially this evening when this smoke might make for a very interesting sunset.


Sincerely,
Mike McCabe

  
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