April 4, 2007
7:30 PM, Norwell Council on
Aging
14 members present
PRESENTATION
DVD of Bridgewater State
College Physics professor Martina Arndt’s presentation at PCIS about her (and
others) research of Solar Eclipses
OLD BUSINESS
1.
Astronomy Day –
Louis, there will be food until 7 pm, Rolf’s meteorites are questionable,
planetarium and other indoor displays, solar telescopes, Mal’s LED
constellations
2.
Mal – Astro
League, Quick links, Global Project, star charts – game for Leo to identify how
dark it is – how many stars can you see – 100 copies of any; Bill will make
copies
3.
Scituate Rotary
Club Wednesday March 28 – Paul, Bill, Mal, Louis beautiful windy and cold
4.
Visit to
SkyScrapers – May 26th at
5.
Bulletin Board –
Paul – due to problems with unwanted downloads (REALLY unwanted stuff) the
Bulletin Board is no longer active
NEW BUSINESS
1.
Family Activity
Packet to identify sky brightness using the stars in Leo – Mal (Bill will make
100 copies for Astronomy Day)
2.
Summer Board
Meeting – Louis agrees to host Summer cook out/board meeting sometime in July
or August
3.
Mal shared a
sample of optical fiber
4.
Chip shared
information about verizon’s problems of installing fiber optics in some of MA
communities
5.
Joe Marques donated
books for members to take
ADJOURN 9:10 pm