[sac-board] SAC Meeting Minutes: 2011/09/09
- From: Paul Dickson <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: SAC-Board <sac-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2011 17:56:20 -0700
SAC Meeting Minutes: 2011/09/09
The meeting was started at 1935 by Chris Hanrahan. We had two guests
in attendance. Chris reminded us that nomination for club officers
start next month.
Steve Dodder reminded us of the novice group, 50/50 raffle, and the
grand Canyon Star Party in 2012.
Rita showed us a zodiac shirt embroided by her daughter.
AJ Crayon, chairman of the Deep-Sky Group, gave out an observing award
for the Herschel 400 to Chris Hanrahan. He has certificate 464.
Paul Lind reported on a recent observing session on 8/29 at the Cherry
Rd site. He ad images of M16 (7 images stacked at 5 minutes each) and
M13 (9 images at 2 minutes each)
Theresa Ashcraft, a grad student at ASU, gave us 10 reasons to save the
James Webb Space Telescope. This is the telescope that should replace
the Hubble Space Telescope. Congress has cut its funding. See
http://savejwst.com. ASU has a Astronomy Open House on Sept. 23 from
8-10 PM. See http://astopenhouse.com. There will be a JWST talk and
Hubble telescope exhibit on Sept 30 6-9 PM at the Arizona Natural
Science Museum.
Dwight Bogan was an Paul Lind's Monday night observing session at
Cherry Rd (8/29). He had images of the Double Cluster, M16, M31, M22,
and M42 (the earliest in the year for him)
Tom Polakis reported on Comet C/22010 Y1 Elemin which was discovered by
Leonid Elemin.
Lori Prause (neverblue1@xxxxxxx) is offering to sew telescope shrouds
for club members at cost. She also showed a painting she did of the
Big Dipper.
The break started at 2022.
Tom Polakis restarted the meeting at 2040.
Dr. Jeffrey Hall, the Lowell Observatory director, talked about the
Lowell observatory in the Discovery Channel Telescope Era. Lowell
Observatory located in Flagstaff has been on Mars Hill for 117 years.
It has 30 acres and access to one square mile there.
The meeting ended at 2136. Rick Rotramel won the 50/50 raffle and
donated his winning to SAC. We had 39 people attending the meeting.
-Paul Dickson
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