2004 Here is a preliminary draft of SAC's 2004 calendar. Note that July ends up with two meetings, this allows the Deep-Sky meetings to occur on the odd-months (Jan, Mar, May, ... , Nov). I hope we can keep this occurance of two meetings in a month. I'm not sure when AJ is planning on the Messier Marathon, but the March New Moon falls on the 20th. Steve Coe has talked about moving the Sentinel-Schwaar Star Gaze to November, so I choose two dates: April 17th and November 13th. Star Parties - September's had to be pushed back a week. Two hours from the end of twilight until moon rise was not enough time! Please verify my moon rise times. I believe they are correct, but my program only shows them for the selected day, making SS & TE, and MR two separate steps. Abbreviations: CR = Cherry Rd FI = Flat Iron SS = Sunset TE = Twilight Ends MR = Moon Rise Dark = (MR - TE) All-AZ and GCSP dates are educated guesses and could be wrong. January February Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 5 FM 7 4 5 6 FM 8 9 10 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 15 16 17 18 19 NM 21 18 19 20 NM 22 23 24 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 29 6 - ATM Workshop 3 - ATM Workshop 9 - SAC Meeting 6 - SAC Meeting 15 - Deep-Sky Meeting 14 - SAC Star Party 17 - SAC Star Party (SS 18:15; TE 19:23; MR 03:27) (SS 17:48; TE 19:00; MR 04:29) (Dark = 8:04 hours) (Dark = 9:29 hours) March April Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa 1 2 3 4 5 FM 1 2 3 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 4 FM 6 7 8 9 10 14 15 16 17 18 19 NM 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 18 NM 20 21 22 23 24 28 29 30 31 25 26 27 28 29 30 2 - ATM Workshop 2 - SAC Meeting 5 - SAC Meeting 10 - SAC Star Party (FI) 11 - Deep-Sky Meeting (SS 18:59; TE 20:10; MR 01:24) 13 - SAC Star Party (FI) (Dark = 5:14 hours) (SS 18:38; TE 19:46; MR 02:27) 17 - Spring Sentinel? (Dark = 6:41 hours) 20 - Messier Marathon? 30 - ATM Workshop May June Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa 1 1 FM 3 4 5 2 3 FM 5 6 7 8 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 13 14 15 16 NM 18 19 16 17 NM 19 20 21 22 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 27 28 29 30 30 31 4 - ATM Workshop 1 - ATM Workshop 7 - SAC Meeting 4 - SAC Meeting 13 - Deep-Sky Meeting 12 - SAC Star Party (CR) 15 - SAC Star Party (FI) (SS 19:42; TE 21:06; MR 02:34) (SS 19:26; TE 20:44; MR 04:07) (Dark = 5:28 hours) (Dark = 7:23 hours) 12-19 GCSP ? 29 - ATM Workshop July August Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa 1 FM 3 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 11 12 13 14 15 16 NM NM 16 17 18 19 20 21 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 25 26 27 28 29 30 FM FM 30 31 2 - SAC Meeting 7 - SAC Star Party (CR) 8 - Deep-Sky Meeting (SS 19:24; TE 20:40; MR 23:34) 10 - SAC Star Party (CR) (Dark = 2:54 hours) (SS 19:43; TE 21:06; MR 01:04) 24 - ATM Workshop (Dark = 3:58 hours) 27 - SAC Meeting 27 - ATM Workshop 12-19 GCSP ? 30 - SAC Meeting Too! September October Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa 1 2 3 4 1 2 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 12 13 NM 15 16 17 18 10 11 12 NM 14 15 16 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 26 27 FM 29 30 24 25 26 FM 28 29 30 31 2 - Deep-Sky Meeting 9 - SAC Star Party (FI) 11 - SAC Star Party (CR) (SS 18:05; TE 19:12; MR 02:56) (SS 18:40; TE 19:50; MR 04:05) (Dark = 7:44 hours) (Dark = 8:15 hours) 15-16 All-AZ ? 21 - ATM Workshop 26 - ATM Workshop 24 - SAC Meeting 29 - SAC Meeting November December Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa 1 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 3 4 7 8 9 10 11 NM 13 5 6 7 8 9 10 NM 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 21 22 23 24 25 FM 27 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 28 29 30 FM 27 28 29 30 31 4 - Deep-Sky Meeting 4 - SAC End-of-Year Party 6 - SAC Star Party (FI) 11 - SAC Star Party (SS 17:35; TE 18:44; MR 01:41) (SS 17:24; TE 18:37) (Dark = 6:57 hours) (Dark = 11:35 hours) 13 - Fall Sentinel? 16 - ATM Workshop 19 - SAC Meeting -Paul