November 2008 |
| ATTENDANCE |
M. Arsenault; D. Beaudin; A. Bordage; A. Davis; C. Clayton; N. Comeau;
D. Driscoll; J. Dunlap; A. George; P. Jensen; G. Jones; E. Kaine; K. Keith;
J. MacDonald, A. MacLeod; B. MacNutt; K. McAdam; S. McHatten; K. Melville;
C. Nason; E. O'Reilly; M. Powell; W. Slaney; D. Thorn; S. Thorn; S. Tompkins;
C. Trott
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| WHAT'S UP |
Curt covered the things to watch for in the sky over the month.
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| OBSERVING |
Adrien and Curt had scopes out for Trick or Treaters; Dave D. teurned a couple of cocky kids into observers; Peter and Curt did a session for St. Macs students at New River; Mike was visited by SJ's finest while taking pictures of Orion.
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| ASTRONOMY TALK |
Globular Clusters (by Mike) - elongated orbits around the Milky Way, first one detected was M22 in 1665, M4 is closest, some contain intermediate mass black holes. Mike showed a video of the Hubble discovery of a black hole in Omega Centauri.
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| SHOW AND TELL |
Adrien displayed his Dob tracker; Dave D. is adapting the bino microscope teaching module for telescopes; Steve had the National Geographic special edition Space magazine.
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| CONSTELLATION TALK |
Camelopardalis - Curt went through the several fine galaxies here and Kembles Cascade.
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| BUSINESS |
Club Scope - Curt, PST (Nathaniel). The Cosmic Perspective (Ed K.). Destiny in Space DVD (Roy H.),
Backyard Astronomer's Guide (not Dave D.); Mars book (Shawn); Christmas dinner plans;
June gave a summary of negotiations with the museum and library ffor IYA 2009
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