South Shore Astronomical Society, meeting minutes for 6 October, 2004.

Unlike other meetings, this one started a few minutes late. as Skip had brewed fresh coffee and a number of members present, wanted a cup before we started. Louis Gentile, our illustrious Vice President, started the evening off, with a talk and slide presentation about his trip to the "Texas Star Party", 2004. Very interesting, showing a wide variety of scopes, both store bought and home made. Don Greeley another club member, who also traveled with Louis to the Texas Star Party, give an impressive presentation, using a laptop computer, attached to a large T.V. A different perspective from Louis, but no less impressive or informative.

Our meeting then turned more business like. Andy talked about his work, at contacting the major local network T.V. stations and asked all members for their help, in preparing his presentation to them. Any information about interesting Astronomical events, either present or upcoming, would be welcome. Other topics that were discussed were about the clubs inventory( scopes, tapes, etc) and the upcoming nominations, at our next meeting.

At this point, the meeting broke up into it's usual small groups, where people would be talking about various astronomical topics and ideas. One of our newest members Pankaj Shah (PK) at this point, brought in a new scope he had purchased and some of our more seasoned members were there to help him put it together and show him how everything works. At this point the meeting was starting to wind down, as slowly, members started to leave. All in all, a pleasant time. Until next time; "Keep Looking Up".