MONTHLY MEETING AGENDA
February 1, 2006
Presentation by F. Bruce Gerhard
“Solar Observing – Part 2”
Nicely done about the Sun
Business Meeting
Old
Business
The SSAS Web
Site & Bulletin Board still for members only.
The
regularly scheduled Viewing Nights are Feb. 4th & 25th .
Special
Viewing Sessions to be held in
There will
be a STEP foundation meeting on Friday March 8 at 5 pm at the Blake Planetarium
at
New
Business
There was a
Board of Directors Meeting –Jan. 28th
Astronomy
Day 2006 May 6th
b.
Louis Gentile suggests that having
Astronomy day at a local church that has many community activities would be a
great draw for a crowd. Initial contact with minister at the
First parish Unitarian Church of Norwell are positive. A committee of
SSAS members will meet with a planning council at the Church at 11 a.m. on
Sunday March 5
c. Bill Luzader has heard no response from nothing the
d Louis
Gentile graciously opened his home for the annual SSAS Star-BQ for a date to be
determined in July (29th?)
e Bill has
no information about a possible visit to the Seagrave
Observatory in
f. Paul Grueter has posted the revised By-Laws.
Other New
Business
Skippy announces
another Messier night in some
Bill luzader announces Skyscrapers meeting Feb 3 at 7:30 pm in
North Scituate RI Community Center Ron Dantowitz from the Clay Center in Brookline; may go to
Groveland MA for North Shore meeting Fri; stardust reentry video, found a web
site of a group fly planes to record reentries; UMass
is building a “radio” telescope in Mexico that is sensitive between Infrared
and Radio, 50 m diameter, bolometer detector “camera” (submillimeter
detection)
Louis
Gentile mentions a possible star party for St. Colletta’s
school in
Mal
MacDonald announces Deep Sky (Jr.) beginners version
data base SQL
Submitted
by Bill Luzader, Secretary, SSAS