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Saturday February 4, 2012
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Time: 7pm – 9pm Where: (click to view map) Agenda: 7:00 – 7:10 Visitor/New Member Introductions – JimW 7:10 – 7:20 RMSS Update – Al 7:20 – 7:35 Introduction to Astronomy #3 – Scott 7:35 – 7:45 What’s in the Night Sky – Floyd/Scott 7:45 – 8:00 Break 8:00 – 8:50 Presentation: Astronomical Alignment of the Big Horn Medicine Wheel – Bruce Bookout 8:50 – 9:00 Wrap up – JimW Just wanted to thank all of you who braved the cold and found the new location for our meeting! It was well attended with many current members and several visitors and new members! Floyd gave a great presention with the Stellarium software and Scott another winner of a powerpoint on how to find an object in the sky… i.e. Setting Circles / Dead Reckoning / Star Hopping. If you attended you know what I mean, and if you couldn’t make it, we’re working on getting the powerpoints on the website with narration, so stay tuned. We didn’t get to the “Show-N-Tele” portion of the night due to time constraints and the need to get out of the library by 9pm. On that subject. if you’d like to give some feedback on the meeting place, there is a topic in the forums at: http://www.csastro.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=3303 where we are discussing the meeting space. We’ll get a post here on the next meeting when we know more than the date… From their about page: ESOs GIGAGALAXY ZOOM: The Sky, from the Eye to the Telescope Through three giant images, the GIGAGALAXY ZOOM project reveals the full sky as it appears with the unaided eye from one of the darkest deserts on Earth, then zooms in on a rich region of the Milky Way using a hobby telescope, and finally uses the power of a professional telescope to reveal the details of an iconic nebula. In the framework of the International Year of Astronomy 2009 (IYA2009), ESO has launched a new project aimed at connecting the sky as seen by the unaided eye with that seen by hobby and professional astronomers. The project, called GIGAGALAXY ZOOM, reveals three amazing, ultra-high-resolution images of the night sky that online stargazers can zoom in on and explore in an incredible level of detail. The GIGAGALAXY ZOOM project thus illustrates the vision of IYA2009, which is to help people rediscover their place in the Universe through the day- and night-time sky. – Posted originally by Jim W. in the Forums Rob Hawley has produced an educational video on YouTube, broken down into 4 segments, total is about 30 minutes. The video is about finding astronomical objects using charts, aka “starhopping”. He uses charts from Sky Map Pro, and from Sky Tools V3, but refers to paper charts as well in the video. Here is the link… |
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