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Charlie Elliott Chapter Meeting Minutes
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Twenty-one guests and members enjoyed the February
meeting at the Charlie Elliott Visitor’s Center. Thanks for coming everyone! BUSINESS: Director, Larry Owens, updated the status of Byers Truss
Tube project, the equipment Baby Sitting program. Steve Bieger gave an
update on his 12-inch Dob project. Jon Wood covered the donation by Tim
Nix of Camera Bug in Atlanta to our chapter of an 80% complete 12-inch Dob.
That project is available to anyone who would like to complete it. In
addition Tim loaned us an artificial star and wants our opinion of it. March 8 meeting: Pot Luck, and Steve Bieger presents Chicken Pizza (oops, I mean “The Maya and Chichen Itza”) – at 5:00 p.m. Mar. 8, Apr. 5, May 17 (JAKES DAY &
Election of Officers), Jun. 7, Jul. 26, Aug. 30, Sep. 27, Oct. 25, Nov. 29,
Dec. 27. FEATURE PRESENTATION: “TELESCOPES” by Steve Bieger. This
month’s program was for those with a new telescope, or those considering a
telescope … and everyone else too. Steve combined his Telescopes How To
and Telescopes 101 presentations to include topics of First Things First,
Coordinate Systems, Shopping Lists, Extra hints and Tips, and On-line
resources. Each of those was expanded to include many related topics
with lots of examples on-screen and in hand-arounds. His talk elicited
much group participation too. Very informative – Thanks Steve! FEATURE PRESENTATION Part Deux: “Observing the Moon” by Theo Ramakers.
Theo took us for a ride on his journey of discovery of observing the
Moon. He had us follow him through his research from the
not-so-serious-to the serious, from an 1896 book by Herbert A Howe, “A Study
of The Sky” which happened to include Atlanta’s response to the 1892
appearance of our old friend comet 17/P Holmes, to the many faces emblazoned
on the Moon. He covered phases, selenographic coordinates,
co-longitude, libration, observing, and links. Whew – Thanks Theo –
MORE! Steve Bieger included some ‘what’s up this evening’
information in his feature presentation. Clevis Jones gave his shortest presentation ever (STOP
that cheering!). Hightower Trail Elementary in Conyers has invited us
to their SPACE CAMP again this year (4th year in a row) – details will
be announced through our various sources as soon as they are known.
Among other things, Clevis covered The Messenger mission flyby of Mercury,
and a tricky Columbus & Columbus to a bit of fine music. OBSERVING SESSION: In company with fifteen kindred soles and our mascot
– in a word, PERFECT! MEETING DATES AND PROGRAMS: March 8, 5:00 p.m. – This is a time change -
BACK TO SUMMER SCHEDULE POT LUCK with Feature Presentation by Steve Bieger, “The
Maya and Chichen Itza” – Don’t Miss It! - Everyone Welcome! Place: Charlie
Elliott Visitor’s Center Clevis Jones, CE Recording Secretary Secretary@CEastronomy.org
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Last Updated Thursday, February 14, 2008 |
