Saturday, August 25, 2007

Celestial Gazing and Lunar Surprising*, August 24

The astronomy club is officially on for the semester. Last night was our inaugural observing session. There were clouds and a telescope pin broke. But no worries, the clouds went away sometimes and the pin thing is fixable. But in the daytime.

We will be present at the activities fair on Thursday August 30 so come visit us and sign up for our mailing list if you're not on it already.

The Tuesday after that should be our first meeting, official announcement forthcoming. Same bat time, same bat channel.

*I volunteered at a planetarium over the summer with a Mr. Rogers show. You all watched Mr. Rogers, right? King Friday called it "celestial gazing and lunar surprising" and if it's good enough for King Friday it's good enough for us. All club-scheduled observing sessions will now carry this tag (as opposed to observing requested by groups, which will still be observing).

Thursday, August 16, 2007

Observing & a sneak preview

Even now freshmen are on campus, and that means a new semester is about to start. And the astronomy club will start it with two things:

1. Observing on Friday August 24 at 9:30 at Weaver. This is near the anniversary of Voyager 2's flyby of Neptune.

2. A new and sleeker webpage which will debut sometime in September. Sneak preview: