Whittier Daily News Article on the Perseids
Posted on by tepiastarThis week the Whittier Daily News interviewed OCA Vice-President Craig Bobchin for an article about this month’s Perseid meteor shower.
This week the Whittier Daily News interviewed OCA Vice-President Craig Bobchin for an article about this month’s Perseid meteor shower.
The OCA web site will be down for hardware maintenance from around 9:00 p.m. PDT on Friday, August 12th for up to 16 hours. We should be back up again by Saturday night. If you’re interested in the details, please click on the title to see a copy of the relevant portions of the hosting company’s announcement of the maintenance.
This Friday, April 2, 2004, 7:30 p.m., held behind the Centennial Heritage Museum, Santa Ana.
Do you have a telescope that’s giving you problems? Bring it to the class and get some help from our volunteers!
Are you thinking of getting a telescope? Come to the class and check out the telescopes others bring, find out what they like and dislike about them, get a feel for how the telescopes really work before you make your decision.
Do you like helping people who are having equipment problems get their telescopes working so they can enjoy what’s out there for themselves? Come along to the class -ììì we can use your help!
After a long and valiant struggle to overcome long-term complications of diabetes, Antonio Miro passed away on June 24, 2005. This is my memorial to one who was a dear friend to many of us in the club, and who is very much missed.
Because help we thought had been lined up is now unavailable, we urgently need help both with the design and building of the new observatory roof and with work that’s needed on the old roof to keep it functioning until it can be replaced. Any help you can give would be deeply appreciated. Please click on the title for details.
When this was written for the Sirius Astronomer, Antonio Miro was doing well and we all had high hopes that he would soon be back among us. Unfortunately, his heart was ultimately unable to withstand the stresses of his condition, and he passed away early on June 24, 2005. I modified the article somewhat from what appeared in the SA because of this sad development.
Except for the changes as to Antonio, this is the full version of the article as originally written; certain portions were edited out of the version that appeared in the SA for the best of reasons – Steve Condrey received a lot of material for that issue and ran out of space.
Our “How to Use Your Telescope” class will be at 7:30 p.m. in front of the classroom behind the Centennial Heritage Museum. If you’ve got a telescope you’d like some help with – please bring it! If you’d like to come help people who need some assistance with their telescopes, please do! And, if you don’t have a telescope yet but would like a better idea of what’s involved in setting different models up and using them – this is a great chance to see what’s involved first hand and to ask any questions you might have.
For details, please click on the title to this article.
Orange County Astronomers Go-To Special Interest Group Starts it’s own Yahoo Group!
Appreciation for Antonio Miro, recent developments with the OCA-TV SIG, and getting ready for AstroImage 2006 (with a revision of the date from what appeared in the Sirius Astronomy).
In just a few weeks, The Planetary Society will fly the first solar sail spacecraft. This private venture, sponsored by Cosmos Studios and the Members of The Planetary Society, will be historic. Light sailing is the technology that may someday take us to the stars, but for now the first attempt by a space-interest organization to fly its own mission will simply use the sail in controlled flight to increase our orbital energy.