[sac-board] SAC Meeting Minutes: 2010/05/28
- From: Paul Dickson <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: SAC-Board <sac-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 29 May 2010 06:03:47 -0700
The meeting was started at 1931 by Dick Harshaw. The club had two visitors
attending.
Steve Dodder was first with announcements. As leader of the novice group, he
told us there would be no session next week as it would be the first day of the
Grand Canyon Star Party. The GCSP was ready to start and looking good. He
also remind us of the 50/50 raffle.
Mitch Prause did the treasurer's report. He mentioned that due to the previous
confusion with the office of treasurer there may be some delays with magazine
renewals that were turned in, with some renewals possibly not being recorded.
In the future, you should perform your own magazine renewals directly with the
magazine for the same discount. Sky & Telescope would just need the club name
while you would have to get a number from Mitch for the discount from
Astronomy.
Tom Polakis reported the conclusion of the Burnham Memorial Fund. The
remaining funds have been awarded as a scholarship.
Dick Harshaw gave a slideshow presentation with music that was made in memorial
to David Fredericksen.
It was 1950 when Tom Polakis took over the meeting to introduce the speaker.
He let everyone know that the July meeting would be show-and-tell. The subject
matter does not need to be a PowerPoint presentation.
Our speaker was Chris Luginbuhl, who is from the US Naval Observatory in
Flagstaff. His topic was titled "Uplight and Light Pollution: Where does it
hurt?". The topic was about lights that were not full cutoff and their effect
on the skyglow. This direct lighting at slightly above the horizontal angle is
worse at greater distances than the reflected light bouncing off the ground.
The discussion after the talk lasted nearly as long as the talk itself and
covered many topics related to light pollution.
The meeting adjourned at 2100. There were 27 people attending. After the
meeting, at J.B.'s, we had 19 people show up.
-Paul Dickson
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