Meeting Minutes Oct. 12, 2009

Meeting Minutes October 12, 2009


T shirts

2009-2010 Astronomy Club t shirts will be white with navy lettering.
Design will be the same as last year.
$5 for S/S and $8 for L/S.
Order forms will be emailed to the club members.

Open House and Galilean Nights Homecoming Weekend (Oct 23rd)

We will have an Open House on Homecoming Weekend. The date coincides with the Galilean Nights planned as part of the International Year of Astronomy.
Entire Wittenberg and Springfield community will be invited to participate in the observing sessions.
We are planning to purchase several Galileoscopes (telescope similar in capacity to the one Galileo used).

Trips

We are planning short trips to Catawba and South Vienna. These would be evening trips to the dark sites.
Other trips in mind are Serpent Mound and NYC.
We will email with approximate dates and $$$.

WAS Activity Room

The larger bulletin board in the WAS activity room (the room in the lower level of the observatory) will have general information about planets, FAQ, myths, asteroid impacts, etc. Please email other ideas to the members of Astro Club.

Telescope Training Sessions

We will have several telescope training sessions. This will not depend on the weather conditions and can be done in daytime.
We will email dates for the training sessions.
Anyone interested, please email Keith (s11.kmeyers) or Anjelika (s10.agasilina).

Latest Astronomy News

Moon bombing was successful, however at this point NASA has no definite answer whether there is frozen water on the Moon.
And no, the world did not come to an end (whatever your definition of “the world” might be).

Saturn has yet another ring!!! It's extremely gigantic and the distance from the planet to the dust ring's outer “rim” is something like 7.4 million miles. The ring is formed by numerous meteorites that impacted Saturn's moon Phoebe and kicked up some dust as a result. The ring was discovered using NASA's infrared Spitzer Space Telescope.

Fall 2009

Hey all-you-astronomers-out-there!

We are back and in full action for this coming semester! We were pleased to see that we had 90 new people rush at the speed of light to the astro table and are excited about our first meeting tomorrow September 7th at 9:30 pm in 319 Barbara Deer Kuss Science Center!

The observing sessions for the semester are:
8/28 8:30-11;00
9/9 at 9
9/17 9:00-10:30
10/4 9:00-10:30
10/12 9-10:30
10/23 8:30-10
11/4 8:30-10:00
11/12 8-9:30
11/23 8-9:30
12/1 7:30-9
12/11 7:30-9

We are proud to announce that the observatory is all cleaned up and looking great for this coming fall's observing sessions.

To be discussed at our 1st meeting;
tee-shirts
activities: Including Home-School children groups, trips, anything else you bring up

See you all tomorrow!
Heidi Wollaeger

NM Trip is on!

The NM/AZ/UT/CO is going to take place June 21st through June 28th. It would be good to know who is coming.
I already booked a ticket. Will be going for the entire week.
Who is flying when and from which airport?

New Officers

Yesterday the club voted and here's our new officers for 2009-2010:

President: Anjelika Gasilina
Vice President: Keith Meyers
Secretary: Heidi Wollaeger
Treasurer: Casey Browder
PR: Gaby Biordi and Courtnay Dollinger

Congratulations everyone!

We're not dead

I've been reminded that this blog exists, and I should update it. So!

Tshirts:
the design for this year has already been sent out via email, and order forms will follow soon

Events:

Girl Scout Science Night is April 3
-if it's clear (which is historically unlikely), volunteers to help guide the crowd and answer questions will be needed

100 Hours of Astronomy is April 2-5
-there will be some observing event, which we haven't decided on yet

April meeting is April 7
-it's at 9:30, in 319 Science

Relay for Life is April 25-26
-go here and sign up for the Astronomy Club team!

10th Anniversary Party is not scheduled yet
-but it'll be fun