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Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Meeting Minutes

  • No extra solar planet project meeting this weekend due to Homecoming
  • Conference call with the Ouida Springer Elementary Astronomy Club on Friday
    • Meet at 1:40 pm in the lobby of Steward Observatory
  • Sabino Canyon public star party event this Saturday, contact Kevin if you are interested
  • Our next star party will be November 20th, location TBD
  • Astronomy Club officers will hold office hours for club members, hours TBD
  • Local Group project meeting Thanksgiving weekend
  • Don McCarthy presented another question of the week and explained the Sabino Canyon project
Problems of the week:

1. Say that cucumbers are on sale, so you buy 100 pounds of them at
your market. The cucumbers are 99% water. Some days later, they dry
out to 98% water.  How much do they weigh now?

2. Nellie Knowital says that the gasoline in a automobile's gas tank
is only about one-fourth of the amount of fuel that runs the engine.
Is she correct? [HINT: Internal combustion engines normally run on one
part gasoline to 14 parts air by mass.]

posted by Pye Pye @ 4:04 PM

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Meeting Minutes

October 27th 2009

  • Astronomy question answered
  • Nov 7th- Sabino Canyon star party program with Sky Center
  • Telescope funding proposal committee. Talk to Kevin or Blythe.
  • 4th graders teleconference looking successful. Meeting next week 12:50-1:45 pm.
  • 10/31 extra solar planet project meeting at 10 am in Steward rm 208. Talk to Kevin if going for first time. Call to be let into Steward.

posted by Pye Pye @ 3:58 PM

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Meeting Minutes

  • We had guest speaker Dr. Mark Smith talk about Chemistry on Titan
  • We have a star party this Friday at Mt. Lemmon
    • Details are pending
  • If you would like to talk with the Ouida Springer Elementary Astronomy Club, please meet in the lobby of Steward Observatory at 12:40pm on Friday
  • The astronomy problem of the week is posted here. Come prepared to discuss the solution to this puzzle at next week's meeting with Dr. Don McCarthy
  • We will be meeting for the Extrasolar Planet Project on Saturday at 10:00am in the Steward computer lab

posted by Astronomy Club @ 5:22 PM

Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Meeting Minutes

  • Guest Speaker Al Grauer gave a presentation about the NF/ Observatory webscope
  • We will have a movie night this Friday, October 9th in Steward Observatory at 7pm
  • There will NOT be an extrasolar planet project meeting this weekend
  • Next weekend on Sunday, October 18th we will be going to the 61 inch telescope on Mt. Bigelow for a tour of the facility
  • We will have a teleconference with the Ouida Springer Elementary School Astronomy Club this Friday at 1:15pm in the SkyCenter office in Steward Observatory.
  • If you have not paid dues, please try to do so asap!

posted by Astronomy Club @ 8:24 PM

Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Meeting Minutes

  • Movie night - Friday, October 9th
    • Email us with suggestions
    • Location TBD
    • 7pm
  • We need someone to update the What's Up board in the Steward hallway
  • Next week we will have guest speaker Al Grauer
  • In two weeks we will have another guest speaker
  • We will have no Extrasolar Planet Project meeting this weekend since we do not have computer accounts set up yet and we are waiting for new hard drives for the server to come in
  • We had Dr. Don McCarthy give a very nice presentation about the International Year of Astronomy and recent findings about things discovered by Galileo

posted by Astronomy Club @ 3:04 PM

Monday, September 21, 2009

Meeting Reminder

Our next meeting will be on Tuesday, September 22nd at 4pm in Steward Observatory room N305.
Hope to see you there!

posted by Astronomy Club @ 12:11 PM

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Meeting Minutes

  • We have the opportunity to work with a 4th grade Astronomy Club in Texas via webcam once or twice a month. More details will be posted soon.
  • We will be meeting to work on the Extrasolar Planet Project on Saturday, September 19th at 10am in Steward Observatory room 208. If you do not have access to the building, please call Kevin at (208) 440-4650.
  • Next week our adviser, Dr. John Bieging will be making an appearance at our meeting to introduce himself.
  • We will try to work on our Local Group Project sometime soon. Dustin has a new idea for an easy structure that we can build.
  • Please remember to pay dues.
  • If you are available on Monday, September 28th to go to the Cooper Center, we will be volunteering to show 4th grade students the night sky. Please email Kevin if you're interested.

posted by Astronomy Club @ 10:06 PM