Events
Join the Bucks-Mont Astronomical Association for its 23rd annual Stella Della Valley Star Party to be held October 16-18th 2009. The event will be at Camp Onas in beautiful Bucks County in southeastern Pennsylvania. For complete information and registration materials visit our website: http://www.bma2.org/sdv.html
2009 Mulberry Mountain / AOAS Regional Star Party
The Arkansas/Oklahoma Astronomy Society is proud to announce their second annual 2009 Mulberry Mountain / AOAS Star Regional Party, to be held on June 19th & 20th, 2009.
Once again, this year's event will take place at Mulberry Mountain Lodging & Events, which is a 650-acre facility located 16 miles north of Interstate 40, on Arkansas Hwy 23, near the city of Ozark, Arkansas. Highway 23 is otherwise known as the Pig Trail Scenic Byway. The facility boasts some of "The Darkest Skies in Arkansas," at GPS coordinates 35°42'41.70"N 093°47'49.84"W.
http://mulberrymountainlodge.com/index.htm
Mulberry Mountain offers cabins, pull-through RV sites and improved tent campsites with water, electricity & showers. Virtually unlimited primitive campsites are also available. Contact Mulberry Mountain Lodging & Events by phone at (866) 667-1919 or by e-mail at mulberrymountain@aol.com for lodging information and reservations.
AOAS plans to set up a Public Observation Area on the south side of the resort on Friday and Saturday evenings. Several of our members' telescopes will be available. Non-members may set up their equipment in the Public Observation Area if they wish. All scopes are welcome.
Vendors are being invited, and a "Swap Meet" will take place Saturday afternoon where anyone will be able to buy, sell, or trade any astronomical items.
The newly formed Arkansas Section of the International Dark Sky Association will have a presentation and conduct a short business meeting in the Conference Center, just before the Speaker Events on Saturday the 20th.
We are having several Guest Speakers that are some of the best Arkansas has to offer and are all University of Arkansas Professors and Astronomy/Physics Researchers..............
Here are some of the Guest Speaker details:
Dr. Marc Seigar, professor of Astronomy at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, and his co-researchers Professors Daniel Kennefick, Julia Kennefick, Professors at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville: Dr. Seigar led recent research and published results in various periodicals concerning "Massive Black Holes and the Structure of Spiral Galaxies".
Topic - "Black Hole and Dark Matter Research"
http://arkansasmatters.com/content/fulltext/news/?cid=103681
http://ualr.edu/mxseigar/
http://www.24-7pressrelease.com/press-release/marc-seigar-phd-honored-by-cambridge-whos-who-for-excellence-in-astronomy-and-cosmology-research-and-education-80799.php
Professor Daniel Kennefick: Topic - "Not Only Because of Theory": Eddington, Dyson and the 1919 Solar Eclipse Expedition Which Tested General Relativity.
http://ptonline.aip.org/getabs/servlet/GetabsServlet?prog=normal&id=PHTOAD000062000003000037000001&idtype=cvips&gifs=Yes
Dr. Derek Sears: W.M. Keck Professor of Space and Planetary Sciences, University of Arkansas at Fayetteville; Director of the Arkansas Center for Space and Planetary Sciences. Dr. Sears focuses his research on meteorites, the origins of other extraterrestrial materials and on near surface processes on Mars.
Topic - "Ménage à Trois: Earth, Meteorites, and the Asteroids"
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/2005M&PS...40..655S
http://dailyheadlines.uark.edu/3447.htm
Wade Van Arsdale, member of the Central Arkansas Astronomical Society (CAAS) and co-founder and Vice President, Arkansas Section of the International Dark Sky Association.
Mr. Van Arsdale hails from Little Rock and is a well-known in the amateur astronomy community and is an accomplished astro-imager. Wade will be presenting an excellent introduction to astro-imaging for the beginning and intermediate amateur astronomer.
Topic - Getting Started In Astro-Imaging
For more information:
http://www.compubuild.com/astro/
A $5.00 donation will be requested for Guest Speaker events and tickets will be used in drawings for donated door prizes.
For more information, contact Leonard Lynch at:
Phone: 479-782-1131
email: nspace01@swbell.net
FREE Star Party at the Antietam National Battlefield, Sharpsburg, MD.
When: The evenings of October 16 and 17
Time: From 6pm until 11pm
Bring the whole family anytime throughout the evening and look through our telescopes at the wonders of the Fall night sky!
Telescopes will be set up near the parking lot of the Battlefield Visitor Center. The Star Party will be cancelled if the sky is cloudy
Visit www.TriStateAstronomers.org
FREE Star Party at the Antietam National Battlefield, Sharpsburg, MD.
When: The evenings of October 16 and 17, 2009
Time: From 6pm until 11pm
Bring the whole family anytime throughout the evening and look through our telescopes at the wonders of the Fall night sky!
Telescopes will be set up near the parking lot of the Battlefield Visitor Center. The Star Party will be cancelled if the sky is cloudy
Visit www.TriStateAstronomers.org
The Michiana Astronomical Society will be hosting their third annual star party (MSP3) at the Potawatomi Wildlife Park in Tippecanoe, Indiana on May 14-16, 2010. Potawatomi Wildlife Park is recognized as the first established Dark Sky Preserve in Indiana.
This year's speakers are Dr. Carlton Allen, NASA Curator for Extraterrestrial Materials at the Johnson Space Center and Dr. Marvin Bolt, Curator of Astronomy History Collections at the Adler Planetarium and Museum in Chicago. Dr. Allen's topic will be "Exploring the Moon in 2010" and Dr. Bolt will be presenting "The Art(s) of Observing".
The park has hiking trails, canoeing on the Tippecanoe River and wildlife observations. Michiana Astronomical Society will be providing coffee, tea, and hot chocolate. This year we will be providing hot dogs and more for our guests. There will be a community campfire with a grill away from the observing field, and microwave ovens for all to use. Camp sites for tents, campers, and RVs are available around the observing field. The discounted preregistration deadline is May 7, 2010. MSP3 T-shirts can also be preordered with your registration. Please visit our website for more information: www.Michiana-Astro.org.
Contact: Linda Marks 574-274-8885 email: saccuosti@aol.com
March 12th and 13th the High Desert Astronomical Society will be having a star party at the Afton Canyon campground. Afton Canyon is in the Mojave Desert aprox. 30 miles north of Barstow, CA off I-15. Campsites run $6.00 per night. Campsites provide fire pits, covered table and BBQ grills but you need to bring your own water. The campground has several enclosed pit toilets also. Afton Canyon has beautiful dark skies for excellent observing and imaging and the weather is mild at this time of the year. During the day there is plenty of hiking areas along the Mojave River and joining canyons. There will be members of HiDAS and SBVAA at this event. Note that this is not a huge star party but it is fun!
For more information contact stargazertony@gmail.com and put star party in the title and there is some information posted on the calendar at www.hidasonline.com
Saturday April 24, The Brighton Astronomy Group will be at Observatory Park 22nd and Bromley Lane
We will have set up a Solar System Walk.
Telescopes Set up for viewing the Sun during the day, and looking at the Planets, Nebula, Galaxies and Stars at night.
Hear ye! Hear ye! Hear ye'all!
Time to organize your summer and plan to attend the best darn star party
in Saskatchewan! SSSP 2010 is ready to take your money, and in return,
we'll throw you a humdinger of a great star party, if we do say so
ourselves! The star party is held on the new moon weekend of August 12
-15! Do you need a better reason than observing in a 7+ magnitude naked
eye sky from the Cypress Hills Dark Sky Preserve? And since we are not
working around Starfest dates this year, we have chosen a weekend where
rain should not be an issue, not that we’re still sore about last year’s
soggy GA/SSSP!
Our Fr. Luke Kemble Keynote speaker is Stan Shadick (University of
Saskatchewan). His talk is “Investigating Exoplanets with Small
Telescopes”. All of our popular activities are back - solar observing,
swap table, wienie roast, the “Under the Living Skies Lecture”, Friday
presentations, Saturday talks, under-the-stars clinics, photo contest,
red-light café, on-site astro-vendors, 10-year awards, door prizes,
moose and much more! Come have a blast!
The star party is held at the Cypress Hills Inter-provincial Park, 20 km
south of Maple Creek, Saskatchewan. Everyone is welcome - we cater to
the entire family, from seasoned observers to ripe newbies and we don't
forget about the spouse and kids! And the best news: park admission and
the SSSP registration fees are the SAME as the 2008 prices! (Sorry for
the banquet increase, though – we charge only what the resort charges us!)
Register early, and decide NOW if you are coming. If you are
tenting, no sweat – there is room for hundreds of tents. Resort
accommodations – another story! Most of the rooms were booked long ago
(as they always are for SSSP). And the resort continues to renovate
cabins this year, so we have a bit of a room shortage. So, If you need a
room, email me, and I will put you on our waiting list. In the past,
we’ve usually found a way to fit everyone in.
Registration forms are also up on the website so take a look and see
what we offer, or pick up your brochure at tonite's general meeting!
85% of our attendees come back year after year. Join your
275 closest friends at SSSP'10!
Everyone welcome!
SSSP Home Page:
http://homepage.usask.ca/~ges125/rasc/starparty.html
SSSP'10 Details:
http://homepage.usask.ca/~ges125/rasc/sssp2010.html
(This website will get a major renovation in a few days, so check back
then!)
Straight to SSSP’10 registration:
http://homepage.usask.ca/~ges125/rasc/2010SSSPRegistrationForm.pdf
Just print it off, fill it in, and send it off with your cheque. (Sorry
- no credit cards)
Rick Huziak, 2010 SSSP Registrar
sssp.sk@sasktel.net
or
rickhuziak@shaw.ca
or
tel: (306) 665-3392 evenings