Monthly Meeting
January 4, 2006
MINUTES
1. A
very interesting presentation by Steve LaFlamme about his observations and
imaging of various astronomical objects including the “The 10th
Planet”
Business Meeting
Old Business
1. Paul
Grueter made a presentation about the club’s Web Site update, Search Engine and
Bulletin Board
2. Reminder
that Viewing nights are Jan. 7th & 28th
starting around sunset
3. Planets
on Jan 7th Mercury – Sets 3:30pm, Venus – Sets 5:27pm, Mars – Sets 2:24am
Next Morning, Jupiter-Not visible till 2:00 Next Morning, Saturn – Rises 6:08pm
4.
STEP Foundation update-
Bill Luzader: the $20,000 grant from the Sheehan Family Foundation does not
HAVE to be spent by Jan 1, 2006 – delayed to Jan 1, 2007 because the site for
the observatory at
New Business
1. Next Month’s
Meeting Feb. 1, 2006 Presentation by Bruce Garhard
about the Sun and Solar viewing 7:30 pm at the Council on Aging
2. Board
Meeting Saturday Jan, 28th at 3:30pm at Council on Aging
3. Rolf Egon shared news about observing and
presentation evenings:
a. Sunday Feb 5 at 7 PM Quincy Park Department and Rain date Tue
Feb 7 at 7 PM
b. Adult same location Feb 6 (rain date Feb 8)
at 7 pm
4. Bill Luzader shared:
a.
Monthly meeting of Skyscrapers, Inc. (http://www.theskyscrapers.org/ )
in North Scituate, RI, at the Community Center, on Friday Jan 6 at 7 pm.
b. January Blake Planetarium show, Thursdays at 7 pm –
“Saturn rings clouds and moons” 3. 3. c. William Walton, a retired astronomer
and astronomy educator, who lives in
d.
Stardust capsule returns to Earth from encounter with comet Jan 15 and the New
Horizons satellite is to be launched to Pluto on Jan 17
5. Mal McDonald shared a problem he has had with “theSky” version 6 dealing with updating existing and newly
discovered asteroid data
6. George Alexander shared information about someone wanting
to build an observatory on the Blue Hills
Respectfully submitted,
Bill
Luzader
Secretary