The DC Women's Hiking Group will hike this week, Oct. 1st and Oct. 3rd at Tarrywille Park in Danbury.
From I-84 take the airport exit.
At end of ramp turn right.
Follow through traffic lights and at stop sign turn onto Southern Blvd. ( It will be a sharp right turn).
Follow small brown signs for Tarrywile Park.
The park will be on the right, across from Immaculate H.S.
Meet in lower parking lot at 8:30am.
Monday, September 30, 2013
Monday, September 23, 2013
The DC Women's Hiking Group will hike Tues., Sept.,24th and Thurs., Sept., 26th at Scott Lot Preserve in Redding, CT.
Coming from the north on Route 7 turn left onto Old Redding Rd. Right after going under RR bear right onto Mountain Rd. Follow Mountain Rd. to end and turn left onto Peaceable St. Parking for the open space will be on the left. If you come to an electrical substation, you went too far.
Meet at 8:30am.
Saturday, September 14, 2013
The DC Women's Hiking Group will hike Tues., Sept. 17th and Thurs., Sept. 19th at Lake Windwing in Ridgefield.
From Rt. 35 going towards Rt. 7, turn left onto Limestone Rd. at traffic light.
Follow road as it turns into Bennett's Farm Rd.
Across from Ridgebury Elementary School, turn right on to South Shore Drive.
Follow road to parking area on left.
Meet at 8:30am.
From Rt. 35 going towards Rt. 7, turn left onto Limestone Rd. at traffic light.
Follow road as it turns into Bennett's Farm Rd.
Across from Ridgebury Elementary School, turn right on to South Shore Drive.
Follow road to parking area on left.
Meet at 8:30am.
Sunday, September 8, 2013
Monday, September 2, 2013
The DC Women's Hiking Group will hike Tues., Sept. 3rd at Topstone Park in Redding, CT.
Take Topstone Rd. off of Rt. 7.
Follow road over RR tracks until it becomes a dirt road.
Shortly after, a parking area will be on the right side of the road.
Meet at 8:30am.
NOTE: No hike on Thurs., Sept. 5th due to No School.
Take Topstone Rd. off of Rt. 7.
Follow road over RR tracks until it becomes a dirt road.
Shortly after, a parking area will be on the right side of the road.
Meet at 8:30am.
NOTE: No hike on Thurs., Sept. 5th due to No School.
Sunday, September 1, 2013
2013 09 Constellation of the Month – Aquila
Aquila, the Eagle is a fairly easy constellation to
identify. Along with last month's constellation
of the month, Lyra, and the October 2012 constellation of the month, Cygnus,
Aquila's brightest star, Altair makes up the large and prominent Summer Triangle of stars. Aquila is the southernmost of these three constellations.
Aquila's immediate neighbors are small and rather faint constellations, such as Delphinus, Scutum, Vulpecula, Sagitta, Capricornus, and Equuleus. The tail of Serpens points to Aquila from the East.
The band
of the Milky Way passes through Aquila on the way from Cygnus
to the North and Sagittarius
to the South. When we look at the band
of the Milky Way, we are looking along the plane of our disc-shaped
galaxy. As a result, we see many more
starts than if we look above or below the plane. We would also expect there to be many more nebulae
and star clusters, but those in the line of sight of Aquila are relatively
faint.
Coincidentally, there are very few galaxies to be
found looking in the direction of Aquila.
So, there are no Messier objects in Aquila. The French astronomer Charles Messier
cataloged a list of 110 hazy objects in the sky. He was trying to identify these objects -- which appeared to stay in the same place -- in order to distinguish them from moving comets, for which he was
searching. The objects he cataloged turned
out to be nebulae (clouds of gases) in our galaxy and distant galaxies themselves. But nothing in
Aquila makes this Top 110.
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