AANC Board Meeting Minutes 2008
recorded by AANC Secretary Alan Gould
A. AANC Board Meeting 2008 February 22 Agenda 1. Call to order 10:00 am Walt/Ken 2. Roll call -- Alan Alan Gould, Barbara Arrighi, Dave Harris, Doug Brown, Liede Marie Haitsma, Ken Frank, Len Nelson, Mike Portuesi, Rich Neuschaefer, Richard Ozer, Vivian White, Walt Heiges. 3. Approve minutes http://aanc-astronomy.org/AANCminutes/AANCminutes.html - Walt: comma missing in board member list. Richard moved, Ken second to approve minutes. Passed. 4. Treasurer's report - Richard. Balances: Member Clubs Carol Fenner applied for membership as individual. Consensus is to not accept individual memberships. Richard will write letter encouraging her to join SFAA and can make donation to AANC. 5. Old business Membership Renewal Headway — [report in Treasurer's report] Thanks to Michael Kran and Richard O for their efforts. Question about Carter...Richard reports that he is receiving visitors. Night Sky Network/ASP (Project Astro Calendar) - Vivian/Marni Lots of activity with GLOBE program---25 clubs with
sky quality meter. Starts tomorrow. http://www.globe.gov/gan --
look at Orion and match with magnitude chart. 2008 Feb
25 - Mar 8. Project Astro calendar has Bay area events
astronomy-wise. If you would like for your organizations'
stuff in that calendar, contact Vivian. 6. New business A. Grants - Liede Marie moves that AANC grants TMW $300 for 2008. Dave seconded. Motion passed. FPOA request (item I). Doug Brown moves AANC reimburse FPOA $371.36. Ken seconded. Motion passed. Michael P noted that the amount seems excessive. Richard: it would be nice if AANC could take advantage iof the event better--more than jsut an awards ceremony event. If we are really co-sponsoring we can be more active. Number of attendees is normally 300-400. Walt announces resurrection of Davis Star Show. Could do AstroCon in Davis eventually. Mini starshow might be end of Aug or early Sep sometime. B. Upcoming Astronomy Events Calendar for 2008. Please submit your club calendar to Alan
C. Proposed California State Parks cutbacks and what
to do about it. Walt volunteers to lead AANC effort to oppose park closings. D. AANC Awards nominations for next meeting: http://www.aanc-astronomy.org/AANCMinutes/Issues.html#B Send nominations to Alan G. See Andy's example below
for ideas on substantiating the nomination. 7. Club reports and website updates—please send to: Alan Gould <adgould@comcast.net> GSSP.... 8. Other agenda items and announcements Kepler (Alan): Kepler will be having a "Speakers Bureau" request form online very soon at http://kepler.nasa.gov; There will also be a "Put your Name on the Kepler Spacecraft" form in the next few months. Richard O: There is request form WAA for memberships. Richard moved that AANC join--allocate $20. Viv seconded. Motion passed. Ken: International Sidewalk Astronomy night is Apr 12. Go to sidewalkastronomynight.com to get pin(s). 9. Adjourn Next meeting date: April 20th, Location Chabot, unless otherwise amended (ie Hogue Park) Adjourned 11:25.
B. AANC Award Nominations AMATEUR [7-25-07 From: Liede-Marie Haitsma/MDAS] PROFESSIONAL Walt (SVAS) nominates Chris Hulbe for Professional Award. Sacramento City College and Sacramento State U. Andy Fraknoi would like to nominate Suzanne Gurton (formerly Suzanne Chippendale) for the AANC Professional Award. See reasons below. SPECIAL 0000 COMMERCIAL 0000 Reasons for nominating Suzanne Gurton (nomination from Andy Fraknoi): After serving in positions at the Griffith Observatory, Fiske Planetarium, and Hayden Planetarium, Suzy became Director on the Planetarium at the Santa Fe Community College, where she completely revitalized the planetarium as a community resource. However, the main reason is that since 2000, she has been the dynamic and extremely effective Education Manager at the Astronomical Society of the Pacific and has spearheaded several major national and international educational initiatives that benefit the amateur and educational communities in astronomy tremendously. Among these is Family ASTRO, a project to create family astronomy activities, kits, and games, to help families enjoy doing hands-on astronomy together. Family Astronomy trainings and workshops are now offered from Hawaii to Boston. Suzy created most of the activities, supervised the training, and trained most of the trainers now doing Family ASTRO around the U.S. and in Latin America. She also supervised the translation of some of the kits she wrote into Spanish. Amateurs and their clubs have been on the forefront of offering such family events. To see some of her activities, go to: http://www.astrosociety.org/education/activities/handson.html and scroll down to the Family ASTRO section. Another important project she heads is Astronomy from the Ground Up, a major NSF-sponsored effort to train education staff at small planetaria, museums, nature centers, and environmental education centers to do more and better astronomy as part of their programs. Again, Suzy helped create and adapt hands-on activities and oversees the training of all the participants, in person and on-line. Astronomy education and outreach programs are springing up in the most unlikely places as a result of this program. Perhaps most importantly, Suzy also heads the ASP's Night Sky Network project (done in cooperation with JPL and several NASA missions), in which members of over 200 astronomy clubs around North America are being supplied with education and outreach kits and being trained on how to do school and public events with them. NASA has recognized this project as one of its most successful educational initiatives and continues to support and expand it. This is one of the most exciting new programs using the often undervalued and underutilized talents and energies of the amateur community in the U.S. A new project, which Suzy also heads, called Sharing the Universe, will undertake research on the factors that allow amateur clubs to be successful at outreach and the factors that hold clubs back. She has been a key liaison between the Astronomical Society of the Pacific and the amateur and education communities, attending and doing workshops at regional and national meetings and providing information on these and other programs for the entire astronomical community through her list serve activities, articles, and conference papers. Since Suzy arrived at the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, the networking between the ASP and the amateur and educational communities has increased and improved enormously. She has also been an ambassador from the astronomical community to a variety of community organizations, including the National School Boards Association, the Girl Scouts, the National Science Teachers Association, and the Association of Science and Technology Centers. Suzy brings to all her work (but particularly to her development of novel and effective hands-on activities) a level of creativity and responsible science that I have seen few people duplicate. Her materials and her ability to train others to use them are exemplary. She is a marvelous asset to astronomy education and well deserving of the AANC's highest award. Suzy can be reached at: Thank you, ================================ Telephone: (650) 949-7288
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D. SFAA SFAA Club Report for Sunday February 24,
2008 CSP (City Star Party) goers at the Randall Museum
on Wednesday, February 20th were not disappointed with
the salmon pink Moon rising in the East Bay hills. The
Moon was in and out of visibility during the eclipse.
Barbara and Michael Arrighi brought goodies to stoke
the public, mostly families that packed the theatre for
both John Dillon and Michael Portuesi's excellent and
compelling lectures on their specific takes of "Moonology".
Charles Messier will make his apparition on Saturday,
March 8th to inaugurate the Marathon. We are still plugging
away to take up our quest to open up the West Peak on
Mt. Tam for observing. We have a new President Dirk Lammerts
as Ken Frank instituted a self imposed one year term
limit. VP is Stephanie Ulrey former treasurer and secretary.
Treasurer Vivian White is continuing in her post. Barbara
Arrighi of John Dobson's telescope making class has volunteered
for Secretary and lots more. Welcome Barbara! Our Awards
Ceremony was held at Delancy Street with a gorgeous view
of the Bay and the bridge. "Above the Fog" our
online rag has been spiffed up and full of cool stuff:
E. HERCULES STARGAZERS February 20, 2008 -- The Total Lunar Eclipse
Gaze was a great success at Foxboro Park. Set-up began
at 5:30 p.m. The weather was mostly very thin clouds
with convenient gaps and sucker holes until leaving around
9:30 p.m. We had to wait until 8:00 p.m. to turn out
the interior building lights, but with the exterior lights
off there was no interference. We had five scopes and
three binoculars set up and in constant use during the
event. The scopes ranged in size from a 70mm spotting
scope to 8" and 10" Dobs, and the binoculars
included one mounted Swift 15x60, one IS 10x30, and one
15x80. We had six astronomy regulars and several visitors,
some from previous Stargazes.
F. LAWRENCE HALL OF SCIENCE As of March 2008, we are decommisioning
our venerable Goto Mercury star projector and installing
a SkySkan definiti Fulldome video system.
G. Photos from Striking Sparks telescope presentations, 2008: http://www.planitarium.net/aanc/strikingsparks08/ From: llmccuneATcomcast.net Alan and Ken, This is the 23rd year of the Sonoma County Astronomical Society’s (SCAS) annual “Striking Sparks” telescope program. The purpose of the program is to promote science education and interest in astronomy. Our goal is to strike sparks of interest with students in Sonoma County. This year we will be awarding the contest winners easy to use, new 6-inch reflecting Dobsonian mount telescopes to students that have been nominated by their teachers or by SCAS members. Applicants must attend one or more SCAS Young Astronomers meetings or the Robert Ferguson Observatory and write an essay about their interest in astronomy. I have discussed AANC's participation with Kenneth and request that AANC sponsor a telescope again this year. We were able to purchase 6 telescopes at a discounted price and can hold the sponsor fee to $200. We plan to award the telescopes to the Striking Sparks winners on February 8, 2008 in Sebastopol and would like to have AANC's participation in the program. Please sponsor a telescope and send a check to: Larry McCune, SCAS Treasurer
H. 2/15/08
I. To: kennethfrank, Richard Ozer, Walt Heiges,
Alan Gould All- The cost of the 2007 Star-B-Que, net of raffle prizes, was $742.67. I'd like to request approval at the next meeting for AANC to reimburse FPOA $371.36. By the way, our unofficial 2008 schedule is now posted on fpoa.net. The 2008 SBQ is planned for August 2. Thanks,
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A. Agenda - AANC Board Meeting 2008 Apr 20 1. Call to order 10:09 am Walt/Ken 2. Roll call - Ed Pieret, Ken Frank, Len Nelson, Michael Kran, Mike Portuesi, Richard Ozer, Walt Heiges, Alan Gould, Dirk Lammerts, Vivian White. 3. Approve minutes: http://aanc-astronomy.org/AANCMinutes/AANCminutes.html Richard O moved Doug B seconded to approve minutes. Passed. 4. Treasurer's report - Richard - see 200804treasRptAANC.pdf 2008 Members We have issue with Franchise Tax Board and may need to pay $200 penalty/fine for lapse of requirement. 5. Old business
6. New business
7. Club reports and website updates Please send to: adgould@comcast.net 8. Other agenda items and announcements Dirk: Lunar Eclipse event at Randall Museum, coinciding with SFAA general membership meeting. A large crowd of SFAA members and the general public enjoyed live views of the lunar eclipse. A crew from KQED’s QUEST science program filmed the event, which will be aired on KQED Channel 9 on Tuesday, April 29th at 7:30pm. This was followed by two talks on “Moonology” given by SFAA members John Dillon and Michael Portuesi Mt Tam program starts up in May. 9. Adjourn 11:30. Next meeting date: June 22nd, Location Chabot, unless otherwise amended.
B. AANC Award Nominations AMATEUR [7-25-07 From: Liede-Marie Haitsma/MDAS] PROFESSIONAL Walt (SVAS) nominates Chris Hulbe for Professional Award. Sacramento City College and Sacramento State U. Andy Fraknoi would like to nominate Suzanne Gurton (formerly Suzanne Chippendale) for the AANC Professional Award. See reasons below. SPECIAL Dirk Lammerts - We would like to nominate Richard Ozer for the Special Award for his work with the Telescope Maker Workshop at the Chabot Space & Science Center. The TMW at Chabot started in 1967 and is one of just a handful of regularly scheduled telescope making classes in the country - organized by volunteers - that enables people without special expertise to grind, polish, and finish their owns mirrors - We would also like to endorse Andy Fraknoi's recommendation of Suzie Gurton for the Professional Awards COMMERCIAL HansWeiste - 1800destiny Curved Spiders (Company in Pleasanton)
Reasons for nominating Suzanne Gurton (nomination from Andy Fraknoi): After serving in positions at the Griffith Observatory, Fiske Planetarium, and Hayden Planetarium, Suzy became Director on the Planetarium at the Santa Fe Community College, where she completely revitalized the planetarium as a community resource. However, the main reason is that since 2000, she has been the dynamic and extremely effective Education Manager at the Astronomical Society of the Pacific and has spearheaded several major national and international educational initiatives that benefit the amateur and educational communities in astronomy tremendously. Among these is Family ASTRO, a project to create family astronomy activities, kits, and games, to help families enjoy doing hands-on astronomy together. Family Astronomy trainings and workshops are now offered from Hawaii to Boston. Suzy created most of the activities, supervised the training, and trained most of the trainers now doing Family ASTRO around the U.S. and in Latin America. She also supervised the translation of some of the kits she wrote into Spanish. Amateurs and their clubs have been on the forefront of offering such family events. To see some of her activities, go to: http://www.astrosociety.org/education/activities/handson.html and scroll down to the Family ASTRO section. Another important project she heads is Astronomy from the Ground Up, a major NSF-sponsored effort to train education staff at small planetaria, museums, nature centers, and environmental education centers to do more and better astronomy as part of their programs. Again, Suzy helped create and adapt hands-on activities and oversees the training of all the participants, in person and on-line. Astronomy education and outreach programs are springing up in the most unlikely places as a result of this program. Perhaps most importantly, Suzy also heads the ASP's Night Sky Network project (done in cooperation with JPL and several NASA missions), in which members of over 200 astronomy clubs around North America are being supplied with education and outreach kits and being trained on how to do school and public events with them. NASA has recognized this project as one of its most successful educational initiatives and continues to support and expand it. This is one of the most exciting new programs using the often undervalued and underutilized talents and energies of the amateur community in the U.S. A new project, which Suzy also heads, called Sharing the Universe, will undertake research on the factors that allow amateur clubs to be successful at outreach and the factors that hold clubs back. She has been a key liaison between the Astronomical Society of the Pacific and the amateur and education communities, attending and doing workshops at regional and national meetings and providing information on these and other programs for the entire astronomical community through her list serve activities, articles, and conference papers. Since Suzy arrived at the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, the networking between the ASP and the amateur and educational communities has increased and improved enormously. She has also been an ambassador from the astronomical community to a variety of community organizations, including the National School Boards Association, the Girl Scouts, the National Science Teachers Association, and the Association of Science and Technology Centers. Suzy brings to all her work (but particularly to her development of novel and effective hands-on activities) a level of creativity and responsible science that I have seen few people duplicate. Her materials and her ability to train others to use them are exemplary. She is a marvelous asset to astronomy education and well deserving of the AANC's highest award. Suzy can be reached at: Thank you, ================================ Telephone: (650) 949-7288
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C. MOUNT DIABLO ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY MDAS- Outreach/Jim Head is going strong
each month; library display/Liede-Marie Haitsma has been
set-up in Brentwood; tabling was take place on April
19th at Mitchell Canyon on Mount Diablo; and June 14th
at Borges Ranch on the Mount Diablo foothills of off
Castle Rock Park. Liede-Marie Haitsma
D. SFAA SFAA Recent and Upcoming events - Dirk
Lammerts - Mt. Tamalpais Public City Star Party
to be held. Lecture by Lynda William on “Space
Ecology: The Final Frontier of Environmentalism”
E. HERCULES STARGAZERS From: David Harris Stargaze April 5, 2008 -- Since the sky was a thin overcast with small clearings, only Mark and Dave showed up at first, around 8 p.m. However, with two 10" Dobs and a 10x30 IS binocular we managed to view Saturn and Titan, the Orion Nebula (great through the OIII filter), Mars, the Pleiades, the Hyades, plus several bright stars including Sirius, Capella and Betelgeuse. Around 9 p.m., a first-time visitor, Mike from Hercules arrived, and we all then re-viewed the above objects plus the Winter Hexagon, M37, M81 and M82, and the Big Dipper and Leo. We realized the sky would not allow us to see any further objects, so we packed up the scopes around 10 p.m., but before leaving Mark and Dave made suggestions to Mike about his 5" Newtonian, and discussed eyepieces, finders, and aperture. Mike took our latest recycled program flyer, light pollution hand-out, and a "Getting Started in Astronomy" brochure from Sky and Telescope, and then we all left around 10:40 p.m. Next Stargaze -- May 10, Astronomy Day,
possibly with a school group.
F. LAWRENCE HALL OF SCIENCE As of March 2008, we are decommisioning
our venerable Goto Mercury star projector and installing
a SkySkan definiti Fulldome video system.
G. From Doug Brown To AANC Board- Recognizing AANC's desire for greater involvement in co-sponsoring this year's Star-B-Que--as discussed in the last AANC board meeting--the FPOA Board would like to start coordinating this year's event with you. We'd like to know what outreach activities you'd like to include in the agenda and how AANC might contribute to putting on the event. Let's add this as an agenda topic for the next AANC board meeting. Meanwhile, I'll propose/ask the following. As usual, FPOA will coordinate the program; arrange for meat, drinks, coolers, condiments, and grills; provide and set up the PA system and AV system; put on the observing program; and clean up. Some of the areas we'd like to jointly plan or request AANC assistance with include: 1. How much time will you need to cover
what topics during the program in the amphitheater? Thanks,
H. From: "Rich Neuschaefer" Dear AANC Board: Rob Hawley, SJAA President, and I were
talking about the AANC a few days ago. He asked if the
AANC would be interested in trying to get club liability
insurance as a group (AANC member clubs)? Rob was thinking that if we were buying
insurance as a part of a group of clubs that it may reduce
the cost of the premium as well as making it easier to
find a carrier. Sincerely, From: "Rich Neuschaefer" Could we at least get a show of hands at
our April meeting to see many of the AANC member clubs
would be interested in buying insurance as a group? ====== >Christopher's question >Regarding the idea of mine that Rich
is passing along Our business is so small that the policy always contains an "other charges" to bring it up to the minimum policy cost. A larger group can generally get a better rate. We would need to do that in a manner that did not turn AANC into an insurance reseller or turn us all into Lloyd's "names" for our sister clubs. There is a large element of brainstorming to this. This entire idea may not be workable. However, if we can save all of the clubs a couple of hundred dollars and not burden AANC it seems worthy of a phone call. Rob Hawley President SJAA ====== It can kind of work that way. Basically, there are two types of insurance... general liability policies for group events, and property insurance to protect club assets. The latter tends to be quite expensive and is well beyond the scope of anything the AANC can do. General liability is used to insure the individuals participating in a group event, any claim against those individuals, and any action by those individuals that results in the destruction of property. In order for the owners of an observing site to be covered, they merely need to be named as "additional insured" under the policy. This is standard procedure with any type of "special event" or club insurance. RO ====== The FPOA Business Liability policy categorizes us into the risk class, ""MUSEUM: NON PROFIT, WITH BUILDING COVERAGE". So, we're definitely not lumped in with the bicycle, ski and wind surfing clubs. Someone raised the topic of Directors and Officers insurance. I'll point out that while employment coverage is usually included, a D&O policy covers more than just that. You need D&O because claims will be made against the company, AND against the directors of the company. Since a director can be held personally responsible for acts of the company, many directors and officers (I'm a case in point) will demand to be protected rather than put their personal assets at stake. Keep in mind that for a typical astronomy 501(c)(3) corporation any of our directors and officers probably have deeper pockets than the corporation. Another common insurance type is Errors and Omissions Liability. It covers you if your client holds you responsible for errors, or the failure of your work to perform as promised in a contract. This would probably not apply to most of us. FPOA has been using Truex Insurance as our agent for at least a decade. 2291 W. March Ln., PO Box 7276, Stockton, CA 95267-0276 (209) 478-5023. We get our insurance--both Liability and D&O--through The Hartford, which has an Alternative Market Placement program that shops out unusual coverage to other underwriters--somewhat like a broker--but puts their name on the policy. A resource to consider is the Nonprofits' Insurance Alliance of California, PO Box 8507, Santa Cruz, CA 95061-8507 (800) 359-6422, http://www.niac.org Thanks, |
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Next Meeting will be 2008 Aug 17, 10 am at Chabot AANC 2008 June 22 Minutes 1. Call to order 10:20 am Walt 2. Roll call: Alan Gould, Dirk Lammerts, Ed Pieret, Liede Marie Haitsma, John Dillon, Ken Frank, Mike Portuesi, Richard Ozer, , Walt Heiges 3. Approve minutes http://aanc-astronomy.org/minutes Minutes not approved due to dead link. Walt will coordinate with Alan and Richard to see if there is any way we can spread the website maintenance load to help Alan. 4. Treasurer's report – Richard Report on Activity since April 2008 (MS Word doc) 5. Old business A. AANC Awards Tally & Nominations - Walt/Ken/Alan AMATEUR
PROFESSIONAL
SPECIAL
COMMERCIAL
B. Fall Astronomy Day October 4th - http://aanc-astronomy.org/AstroDay.html. Ken has coordinated with CSM. Ed recommended that day because it is 1st quarter moon, after the start of school year, and also the 51st anniversary of the Sputnik launch C. FPOA/AANC Star-B-Que and AANC Awards - Doug/Ken Ken will help with Star-B-Que write-up, and will contact Vivian and Susie to see if they can help with kid’s activities. Volunteers still needed for: raffle, setup, photography, cleanup and other. Please contact Doug_Brown at AMAT dot com if you can help. 6. New business A. Night Sky Network/Project Astro/IYA2008/ASP-AAS Con - Vivian/Marni/Ken 7. Club reports and website updates 8. Adjournment Hercules Stargazers Club Report - Submitted by Dave Harris MDAS Outreach is now over for the summer and there were plenty of schools for Outreach events; some were cancelled due to cloudy skies but the majority that occurred were well attended; Jim Head did a great job again this year and we look forward to September to begin again. Public Nights have been (also) well attended. The Warming Room on the Lower Summitt on Mt. Diablo will soon be ready for official use for Astronomy Outreach. GSSP Nomination for AANC Amateur Award 2008 - Steve Gottlieb is a renowned Bay Area amateur observer who has looked at more than 7000 of the NGC and IC objects. His observations are a significant portion of the NGC/IC project, a collaboration of accomplished amateur observers that's designed to clarify or correct problems in the NGC and IC catalogs.
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AANC 2008 Aug 17 Minutes 1. Call to order 10:14 am Walt/Ken 2. Roll call - Alan Dean Drumheller, Ken Frank, Alan Gould, Liede Marie Haitsma, Dave Harris, Walt Heiges, Larry McCune, Richard Ozer, Ed Pieret, Mike Portuesi 3. Approve minutes http://aanc-astronomy.org/minutes Ken moved, Liede-Marie seconded to approve minutes. Passed. 4. Treasurer's report - Richard - PDF Activity Since 5/22/2008 (8/17/2008 Report) Checking 2,198.61$ Some discussion of having money earn more interest. 5. Old business A. FPOA Star B Q and AANC Awards Wrap-Up - Doug/Ken
B. CAS Opening: Academy of Science in the new building on September 27th and 28th
6. New business A. Night Sky Network/Project Astro/IYA2008 - Vivian/Marni/Ken
B. Ken suggests a permanent Fall Astronomy Day http://aanc-astronomy.org/AstroDay.html
C. Tom Harris of MDAS wants to know how other clubs did and will do at Glacier Point.
D. Check out the Featured Club Newsletter: http://www.eastbayastro.org/2008/0807/2008-07.pdf
ANNOUNCEMENTS
E. Tentative Meeting Dates for 2009
7. Club reports and website updates Please send to: adgould@comcast.net 8. Adjourn 11:15 (Richard moved, Dave seconded) |
| 7A. MDAS Club Report (2008 Aug 12). Liede-Marie Haitsma MDAS Rep. for AANC |
Mount Diablo Astronomical Society: The Warming Room on Mt. Diablo is finally running with lights working at Public Night on August 2nd, everything went fine and it's first lecture was given inside. Everyone enjoyed the evening with wonderful viewing. Jim Head is beginning to get calls from teachers for the upcoming school year and outreach events; in September outreach programs will begin. |
| 7B. Hercules Stargazers Report (2008 Aug 16) Foxboro Park, Hercules, Ca. Submitted by Dave Harris | June 28, 2008 Stargaze -- A very hazy sky from the California wildfires obscured all but the very brightest objects. I began scanning the sky with binoculars around 8:40 p.m. Saturn was barely visible, and after another hour I was able to spot only Vega, Arcturus, and most of the Big Dipper. As I was leaving, Steve pulled up, and we discussed the sky at the park, and some alternative locations for the Stargazes, but didn't reach any conclusions. We left around 10:40 p.m., just after Jupiter became visible behind some trees. July 26, 2008 Stargaze -- This proved to be a much better evening. The sky was clear and the haze almost non-existant. By 9 p.m. we had four scopes set up, which included Mark's 20", Timo's 13.1", my 10" and 10x30 IS binoculars, and Ernie's Televue 85. Tom, without a scope, checked out the views through all of them. We observed Jupiter and its moons, the Ring Nebula, M13, the double Albireo, the Veil Nebula, the double Alpha Hercules, open cluster IC 4665, and several bright meteors which may have been from the Capricornids. Steve arrived with his bright light saber and helped point out some objects. Around 10:45 p.m. a new observer, Brian, arrived and set up his Celestron 80. Now, with five scopes and binoculars, we continued our viewing with M7, M6, M8, M16, M17, M11, The Dumbell Nebula, M81 and M82. Jupiter was high and clear, with Io and Europa further apart. Then we looked at the Andromeda Galaxy and the Double Cluster in Perseus. At 12:30 a.m. we packed up the scopes. Before leaving, Mark and I reviewed the evening's highlights, and discussed publicity for the Stargazes, which at the moment does not seem to be enough. We left the park at 1:15 a.m. Our remaining Stargazes for 2008 are August 23, September 27, October 25, and November 22. |
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AANC 2008 Oct 12 Minutes 1. Call to order Walt/Ken 10:07am 2. Roll call - Alan Ken Frank, Alan Gould, Liede Marie Haitsma, Walt Heiges, Mark Wagner, Richard Ozer, Ed Pieret, Mike Portuesi, Ray Wong, Dean Drumheller, John Dillon 3. Approve minutes http://aanc-astronomy.org/minutes Richard moved, Dean seconded to approve minutes. Passed. 4. Treasurer's report - Richard Activity Since 8/17/2008 (10/11/2008 Report) PDF version 5. Old business
6. New business
7. Club reports and website updates Please send to: adgould@comcast.net 8. Adjourn 11:44 (Ken moved, Richard seconded) |
| 7A. MDAS Club Report 2008 Oct 5. Liede-Marie Haitsma MDAS Rep. for AANC |
Mount Diablo Astronomical Society: The last Public Night for MDAS was on October 4th drawing only about 25-30 visitors; there was a huge cloud covering the top of Mount Diablo that didn't move and grew progressively clouder and darker, thus Marni Berendsen and several visitors left early. School has started, and Jim Head has begun to set-up Outreach programs, with several per month. |
| 7B. Hercules Stargazers Report (2008 nnn) Foxboro Park, Hercules, Ca. Submitted by Dave Harris |
Our remaining Stargazes for 2008 are October 25, and November 22. |
| 7C. SFAA activities, Dirk Lammerts 2008 Oct 10 | -SFAA was at Yosemite Glacier Point on July 11-12. |
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