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Our next meeting will be, Friday, June 6 at the home of MEL & Sue Tucker in Pacific Creek. We'll carpool from the Gros Ventre Jct. as usual, leaving at approx. 7pm. ASTRONOMY MEETING SCHEDULE FOR 2008 DATE MEETING PLACE Sept. 26, Friday, 8pm Home of Arlo & Dalia Niederer in Bar B Bar Oct. 3, Friday, 8pm Teton Co. Rec Center Program: Solar System & the Milky Way, Our Home Galaxy
Nov. 7, Friday,
8pm
TBD Before the storm at Owen-Bircher Park in Wilson, Aug. 7, 2008
Our LAST MEETING, was at Owen-Bircher Park in Wilson in coop with the Rec Center, Jill and Jill were both there. We had a number of visitors from W. Palm Beach, Chicago & elsewhere. We had some serious rain & lightning while conducting a program under the picnic cover, and never got to do any observing. MEL, ANN & ARLO held forth on meteors & meteor showers in advance of the Perseids next week (which were largely a flop this year), LORETTA providing most of the refreshments. Sold a patch and a few raffle tickets. Sometimes, that's just the way it goes. Need a club logo ball cap, raffle ticket, calendar? Call LORETTA.
Welcome to our webpage concerning the activities of our amateur astronomy organization. Our Club Chair for the last 11+ yrs. now is MEL TUCKER. It was begun in 1992 with 5 charter members and now boasts about 40-50. Our members are students, retired military, geologists, teachers, pilots, homemakers, professional astronomers, and a former Jackson Mayor. Club Dues are $12. to join, $10. to renew, $8. for a second family member and $6. for students. Make checks out to the Jackson (Hole) Astronomy Club and send to LORETTA SCOTT at Box 994, Jackson, WY, 83001-0994. (If students can't afford to make this nominal investment, we will let them join for free.) Benefits of membership include a monthly newsletter, discounts on national astronomy magazines, instruction and use of the club's three telescopes & astronomical binoculars (Re Telescope Loaner Info for Members below), monthly meetings, observing with others members, discounts on occasional courses, etc. Each meeting includes an observing session if weather allows. Programs are usually given by other members or the occasional professor or other passing through the area. The club will present Star Parties (scopes, astronomers, etc. for nighttime observing for groups of people). Convention groups may engage the club for the nominal cost of $400. per evening. Local civic groups will be accommodated either free or for a nominal charge. Private small groups, visitors to the valley, etc., may engage us for a date & price to be determined on an individual basis, probably in the $200. range depending. School groups, scouts, or other similar local entities will incur no fee for such an event. We are also engaged in classes for young people, Scout merit badge counseling, and observe National Astronomy Day... usually in Grand Teton National Park in August. This consists of an information table, solar observing, videos in the theatre, an amphitheater program, and then finally, star gazing. Contact WALT via information provided below or click on this LINK to email for more information. For your group, choose the link below for more info: Star
Parties
NAD 2008, Aug. 3: Participating this year were Ed Henze, Ann & Chuck Dahl, Linda Dudinyak, Mel Tucker, Walt Farmer, Arlo/Dalia/Derek Niederer, Dave and Helen Bishop, Bob Hoyle. We had about 250 come by on the deck to view no sunspots on the sun from 2-5pm. Bob did his amphitheater program at 9pm & most of the almost 400 attendees came down to the bay to look through our 5 (2 - 8", 2 - 11", and one 14") scopes and 2 binoculars set up for nighttime viewing, until after midnight. It was a most appreciative and jazzed crowd, more so than usual this year, but then the night was pleasant, the stars were plentiful, and the park helped with promoting the event this year. We had good press locally as well as in Sky & Telescope magazine.
NAD 2007 - Problem was, we were snookered. We got one hour of solar gazing on the deck, the rest was rained out. Several rain showers busted the nighttime event too, although BOB HOYLE did his amphitheatre program in the auditorium. Attending & making the effort were: BOB, MEL, WALT, ARLO & DALIA, BILL B., JOHN F., & ED. Total visitors this year was about 150. After his amp program, the sky cleared a little & briefly. BOB did a quick laser sky tour for about 15 people & WALT got the club's 8 in. out for about 20 min. of stargazing. Hardly worth the effort, but they liked it & after all, that's what we do. Our club stands available to present free star parties for clubs, schools, scouts, etc. Just contact us for particulars. Here's a list of past events we've volunteered for. Link. The perfect Xmas/birthday/whenever gift. Get YOURS now. Recognize our stylin' cap models?
Pics de Walt Our PATCH that anyone can acquire. It's $5.(to club members $3. or 2 for $5.) and can be gotten from our esteemed Treasurer LORETTA SCOTT at the address below. Please add an extra .50 cents for mailing, etc. And boy is she "steamed" that they haven't been selling like hotcakes. (Perhaps that's because they're patches & not hotcakes.) |
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Would you like to have your astrophoto here as well? Call Walt & show off a little.
Overhead, 3.30.01, Jackson, Wyo AURORA IN WYO WNW, over the Tetons, 3.30.01 |
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