This year we had 758 people
registered, but we had Mammatus. The cloud-watching was better
than the star-watching.
See OSP 2000Group Photo Below
Mammatus clouds can precede
the dropping of a tornado funnel, so are best watched with great
caution. The telephoto view below shows us one of the gently curving
mammatus forms beginning to descend from the base of a thunderhead,
just to the west of our main telescope field. Luckily, nothing
further developed, and our Group Photo was bathed in brillant
sunshine.
click to play ....thunder
rumbles!
OSP 2000 had some other
thrills as well, such as...
Forest
Fires!.. Please click! Includes the B and B Complex Fire of 2003
click
here to see OSP
2000 Group Photo
The OSP 2000 Group Photo
has turned out wonderfully, the faces of the participants exceptionally
detailed.
Printed 8x10 Group
Photos were available
for distribution at the regular October RCA meeting, which was
the third Monday, namely October 16th. A few extra prints may
still be available for sale to those individuals who did not pre-purchase,
please contact the main OSP website and ask Chuck Dethloff if
any are still available.
See you
next year!
Bruce Johnson
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