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Árbol del Sol
Thought for the Month “There will come a time when you will believe everything is finished. The SunTree Traveler
As is normal with our trips to Mira Vista RESORT, it was quite a pleasant weekend. We were sorry to hear the Melissa has quit and with her husband, will be moving back to northern California. She was a definite asset to Mira Vista and will be missed. We enjoyed the great food from the Mira Vista kitchen for our meals and, as usual, had a Saturday afternoon get together to chow down on snacks along with great conversation. That evening we joined together to look like a flock of dopes as we watched the exciting photo-op of the planet Venus and the Moon while we waited for the Space Shuttle to zip across the sky on its way to pay its last visit to the International Space Station. We gave the pools a good workout (not the other way around) and met some new wonderful people, but that is the old news since that always happens when SunTree goes there.
After the May newsletter went out, we had several phone calls and e-mails complaining that we had cancelled the camping trip to Wildwood. That (as with most of our events) was in our annual schedule published in the January newsletter as well as was on the club website. Since we got no information from people interested in going to another Wildwood event, we made the assumption that there was no interest. Since a Wildwood event requires a monetary deposit, it was cancelled. Note, we still have a Wildwood event on the calendar and there is enough time to make plans and deposits right now. One of the e-mails that we got asked if we could plan a Memorial Day camping trip to the Gila National Forest in the Beaverhead area. That does not take as much planning effort, so we pasted in a "seat-of-the-pants" event for that weekend. A notice was sent out to the people on the campers address list from last years Wildwood event. As this is being written we still plan to be there. If you have not get the information on the location yet, get in contact with SunTree. A report will show up in the July newsletter.
A Lunar Eclipse this Month (If You Want an Excuse to Visit Hawai'i on 25 - 26 June) Evening: Shortly after sunset on 5 and 6 June a somewhat strange sight will be waiting for you in the western sky. Mars and Leo will get very, very close to each other. At least that is what it will look like if you happen to be standing on the surface of the Earth that evening. Both bodies (one a planet and the other a star) will be about the same brightness and if their color were the same they could be twins. The orange one is the planet Mars and the icy blue one will be Regulus. If you are familiar with constellations, then you know that Regulus is the brightest star in Leo and forms the bottom point on the handle of the sickle. The western sky has another nice meeting which is scheduled in the evening dusk of 14 June when you can see the crescent Moon directly below brilliant Venus. There are two stars to the right of Venus at that time. The are none other than those fun-loving Gemini twins Pollux and his brother Castor. Actually three evenings earlier, there is even a nicer situation, but the Moon is not around to help you. Venus and the Gemini brothers are aligned in a straight line across the fading light of dusk. That will be on 11 June. If you have a pair of binoculars on 19 and 20 June, you can see that Venus is attempting to hide in the beehive star cluster, but she is way too bright to hide. Morning: The morning sky on 7 June will have a nice little display, but you will really need binoculars. You should have no problem finding Jupiter on the evening of 6 June when he is fulfilling his new job as morning "star" and moves in close to right under the Moon. The next night is when you will need your binoculars when he will move very near blue-green Uranus. Binoculars easily show Uranus above Jupiter and this pairing will continue to 11 June.. Summer begins with the solstice on 21 June at 5:28 AM MDT.
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