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January 2012

LOCATION Rockwood Park Interpretation Centre
 
ATTENDANCE The list was lost and is created from memory. We apologize if we missed you or if we confused you by making you think you were there. M. Arsenault; D. Basque; D. Beaudin; M. Carson; M. Crowdis; C. Curwin; A. Davis; J. Dunlap; C. Fox; M. Giberson; K. Horgan; A. Huskins; P. Jensen; H. Lamb; J. MacDonald; D. MacPhail; S. McHatten; C. Nason; E. O'Reilly; M. Powell; S. Tompkins; C. Trott; S. Wetmore; D. White
 
BUSINESS M. Powell has the solar scope; S. Tompkins keeps the club scope; D. Beaudin borrowed DVDs # 5,6. We discussed doing observing at the park during the pond hockey tournament if the weather was clear and if we could get in.
 
WHAT'S UP Curt covered the things to watch for in the sky over the month.
 
OBSERVING REPORTS Sorry, not recorded.
 
ASTRONOMY TALK J. MacDonald gave a talk on the Homunculus Nebula near Eta Carina, which formed from a near-supernova explosion in 1841.
 
SHOW AND TELL M. Powell brought a set of Meade 5000 eyepieces (Christmas present to self); C. Nason had a book "The Story of the Heavens" by Robert Ball (1886).