Hello Everyone:
This month's meeting is all about getting us off to great start for our summer observing!!!
Don Colton will be using his incredible astronomy software along with Dave Bernson's knowledgeable and insightful commentary on interesting deep-sky objects to look at that you may not know about.
Mike Murray will go into more detail about the Astronomical League's observing programs that you can use to set goals for your own personal observing.
The meeting will be at the Salt Lake County Government Center located at 2001 S. State Street. Please see the SLAS website for more specifics.
Also, see the SLAS website at http://www.slas.us for specific information about the Memorial Day Weekend star party at Great Basin National Park.
Thank you and I look forward to seeing you Tuesday evening the 23rd of May.
Lowell Lyon
--- Kim <kimharch(a)cut.net> wrote:
> From: "Kim" <kimharch(a)cut.net>
> To: "Utah Astronomy"
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> "'Alexi Arias'" <elisbanlomen(a)hotmail.com>,
> "'Chris Connole'" <connole(a)thebluezone.net>,
> "'Germain Platero'" <platero289(a)netzero.com>,
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> <princesslolaanne(a)yahoo.com>,
> "'Michael Carnes'" <michaelcarnes(a)earthlink.net>,
> "'Tom Sevcik'" <sfv1ts(a)hotmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 9 May 2006 20:59:55 -0600
> CC: Roberta_Moore(a)nps.gov
> Subject: [Utah-astronomy] Great Basin National Park
> star party
>
> Hi all. The following message is especially for
> those SLAS members who
> indicated their interest in attending the Memorial
> Day weekend star party at
> Great Basin National Park, but everyone is invited,
> so I'm sending this also
> to the Utah Astronomy group.
>
>
>
> Great Basin National Park is hosting an astronomy
> event modeled on the
> highly successful annual astronomy festival held at
> Bryce Canyon National
> Park. It is hoped that this event will become an
> annual affair with similar
> support and attendance. Great Basin NP has asked the
> Salt Lake Astronomical
> Society to assist by providing experienced lecturers
> for indoor activities
> and telescopes and operators for evening star
> parties. In return, the Park
> will provide free access to the Park and camping
> space for SLAS members and
> their families, also free of charge. For more
> information about the Park,
> daytime activities, park map, etc., here is the link
> to the Park's website:
> http://www.nps.gov/grba/index.htm.
>
>
>
> The following URL should take you to Mapquest
> directions to Great Basin NP
> from downtown SLC: http://tinyurl.com/jvmb7 . (I
> believe the drive time is
> closer to 4 hours from downtown, but I haven't made
> the trip in quite a long
> time so I'm not sure.) When you arrive, ask for
> Roberta Moore. You'll be
> asked to sign some paperwork to make you an official
> volunteer, and she will
> give you directions to the campground.
>
>
>
> The Park has reserved Loop B, site B2 in the Lower
> Lehman Creek campground
> for us. The site will accommodate up to 7 vehicles,
> 28 persons, so if anyone
> who has not already let me know would like to come,
> please contact me and
> I'll try to arrange for additional space, if needed.
>
>
>
> The weekend schedule is as follows:
>
>
>
> Friday, May 26: Arrive, set up camp; ranger talk and
> astronomy lecture at
> 7:30PM; star party at dusk.
>
> Saturday, May 27: Solar observing (if possible, but
> we'll need telescopes -
> I am not so equipped); ranger talk and astronomy
> lecture at 7:30PM; star
> party at dusk.
>
> Sunday, May 28: Informal star party at dusk (the
> Park isn't necessarily
> planning on anything on Sunday, but we're welcome to
> stay and set up scopes
> if we wish).
>
>
>
> I will be giving the lecture on Friday, but if any
> of you is so inclined,
> you would be welcome to speak Saturday. Or, if you
> wish, we could swap. (I'm
> just not sure I can be very entertaining two
> evenings in a row. In fact, I'm
> not sure I can be very entertaining at all, but I'll
> give it a shot.)
>
>
>
> If I've left out any key information, please feel
> free to contact me. Oh, it
> might also be nice if you would confirm whether or
> not you will be able to
> come.
>
>
>
> Thanks, all - see you there!
>
> Kim
>
>
>
>
>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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