Howard Edin's Log of Okie-Tex

There was a nice display of meteors during the OTSP. Some sporadic and some from the minor meteor showers going on. Yet one meteor outshined them all. A bolide happened around 2:24 2:19 CDT Tuesday morning. It was spectacular. Lighting up the entire area for a moment. Wow.

Howard made the "Astro Photo of the Day"(APOD)

Wow, wow, wow! I just got back from my first big "star party" -- the 25th Okie-Tex Star Party that was held in the Black Mesa area of the Oklahoma panhandle. It was a 9 hour drive from Big D but totally worth it. I tent camped for 4 days under some of the darkest skies in the country... and the weather was perfect! It was incredible. I saw stuff I've never seen before... like the Zodiacal light and the Gegenschein (more about those later). An excerpt From J0hn Davis' blog. Read the rest here

If you ever have a story to tell, a star party like this one is the place to do it. I had a blast and hopefully those 30 or so individuals who attended my talk will have more inspiration to do some of the AL programs they might not have selected before listening to me. An excerpt From Mike Hotka's entry on the Astronomical League's website. Read the rest here

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David Wang

title: Bolide
details: I took this at 2008-09-30 3:20 am with my Canon 10D and an 8 mm Sigma lens from the Okie-Tex field.

Don Horne

	title: Sagittarius & Jupiter details: Stack of 4 pictures in PS CS3. 9/29/08
	title: Milky Way 'smoke' Wafts from Cave details: 12.5 inch Newtonian (owned by Jim Moore, Nashville, TN). Single exposure, 9/29/08.
	title: IMG_8960-2 details:4 exposures of trees and lower Milky Way in Sagittarius stacked in CS3. And 4 exposures of upper Milky Way in Sagittarius stacked in CS3. Those two photos were combined in a panorama in CS3. Taken 9-30-08.
	title: Milky Way Highlights The Cross on The Hill at Camp Billy Joe. details:2 exposures @ f/3.2 stacked and cropped in CS3. Taken 9/30/08.

Mike Conron

John Davis

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Michael Houston

Bill Wilburn

You can see more of Bill's pictures here.

Dale Eason

Dan Lessmann

Joe Gafford

David Cochran

Sagitarius region with Jupiter and telescope.Taken on October 1, 2008 with Olympus OM1 on Kodak ASA 800 film. Exposure time 12 minutes piggyback on Celestron C8, RA drive and anually guided in DEC. Scope on picture is an Obsession 30" owned by Don White fromthe San Antonio Astronomical Association.

K Clobrecht