[sac-board] SAC Meeting & Board Mettings Minutes: 2010/03/26

From: Paul Dickson <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: SAC-Board <sac-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 23:52:10 -0700
SAC Board Meeting Minutes: 2010/03/26

Board meeting started 1910.

Board members attending, Richard Harshaw, Tom Polakis, and Paul Dickson.  
Others members were Rick Tejera.

Th subject of the meeting was the constitutional amendment for filling board 
vacancies.  It was read and approved by the board member to go before the club.

Also brought up by Paul was to check whether the club still has access to the 
privacy account for the domainbyproxy.com account for SAC's domain name.  Will 
need to contact Peter Argenziano.

Meeting adjourned at 1915.

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SAC Meeting Minutes: 2010/03/26

Regular meeting started by Richard Harshaw at 1930.  There were no visitors 
attending that introduced themselves.

As David Fredericksen is in the hospital and would not be able to continue as 
Treasurer, we would need a new treasurer. Chris Hanrahan volunteered to be 
nominated for treasurer.

Steve Dodder reminded us the club's 50/50 raffle.  For the north rim of the 
Grand Canyon Star party, there is one free cabin available for the week at the 
Kaibab Lodge.  Please contact Steve if you are interested (this is outside the 
park).

Rick Tejera reported that the Messier marathon was a success and the plaques 
have been ordered for the awards at the next club meeting.  The club purchased 
75 t-shirts for the marathon and with only 15 remaining, the club has already 
made more than $200.  The shirts are now $10 each for the remaining shirts.

Gene Lucas reported on the then upcoming event at the Riparian Preserve at 
Water Ranch in Gilbert.  The east valley club will be there setup for solar 
observing.  We are invited to assist with showing the sun.

Jack Jones covered the upcoming Thunderbird public star party.  The entrance to 
the parking area to setup is off 67th Avenue, just past the Mt Ridge High 
School.

Show-N-Tell

Tom Polakis reported on Messier marathon.  He reported that Ken Reeves used a 
3-in scope for the marathon, mounted on a 20-in telescope.  Tom did not perform 
the Messier marathon, but attempted a Herschel 400 marathon.  He saw 387 
objects of 388 possible for the night.  Yes, a go-to mount was used.

Paul Lind showed images from the SAC ATM/Astro-Imaging subgroup session that 
takes place on the Tuesday before the club meeting.

Steve Coe had some images to show as well.  His first was a rare sight, a fire 
danger sign road-side sign set to the low danger setting.  He then presented a 
short history of the SAC Deep-Sky Database from the humble beginnings on a 
Apple II+.  The database is now at release 8.1 with more than 10,000 objects.  
It can found at http://saguaroastro.org in the download section.

There was a break at 2020 until 2035.  The speaker for the night was Tom Kaye 
from Sierra Vista on the Spectrashift Project.  The goal for the project is for 
the first exosolar planet to be discovered by an amateur astronomer.

A special note of thanks to Jennifer Polakis for her work in attempting to 
repair the black smudges the school's projector screen has acquired.

The meeting adjourned at 2125.  There were 38 people attending.  18 of which 
went to JBs afterwards.

        -Paul Dickson
[sac-board] SAC Meeting & Board Mettings Minutes: 2010/03/26

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