SOUTH SHORE ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Wednesday July 11, 2007

7:30 PM

 

12 members present

 

PRESENTATION

Kitt Peak tape from John Flores

 

OLD BUSINESS

 

  1. Board Meeting at 1 pm and Annual BBQ at 2 pm – Saturday July 28th at Louis Gentile’s house 34 Sylvester Rd, Scituate - Louis and Rosemarie will supply beverages and meat (DONOT bring either – BRING salads or carbohydrates or special dietary food)

 

  1. Plymouth Fourth of July Parade with the STEP Foundation went very well! THANK YOU Louis and Rosemarie Gentile, Paul Grueter and Carl Fletcher! The float was a model of the Space Shuttle decorated as the “Mayflowers III”

 

  1. Nest year is 50th Anniversary of SSAS, bring ANY old SSAS stuff to the BBQ

 

NEW BUSINESS

 

Viewing Dates at Centennial Filed: set up at sunset July 14th and July 21st

 

Mal MacDonald is working on an adjustment for Orion (winter), Leo (spring) sky pollution activity – making two more for summer and autumn

 

Discussions of various upcoming satellite launches, Mars’ rovers and discovery of extra solar planet with water

 

NEXT MEETING

7:30 pm Wednesday August 1 at the Norwell Council on Aging

 

ADJOURN 8:45 pm

 

Submitted by Bill Luzader, SSAS secretary July 13, 2007